Happy Tuesday!! This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic (hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl) is supposed to be about books we’re glad we didn’t DNF too quickly. However, I’ve decided to switch up the topic yet again because I very rarely DNF books so there wouldn’t be much of a list with that theme. Instead, I’ll be sharing ten books I’m glad I didn’t DNF part way through. Sometimes it pays to stick with a book until the very end!
Which books are you glad you decided to keep reading? What do you think of the books on my list? Let me know in the comments section below!
Yours,
HOLLY
You always remind me that I need to read more classics Holly haha. That Anthony Doerr Book looks good (judgin by the author and cover haha) as well!
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Oooh definitely read these classics! 🙂 And Anthony Doerr is such a great writer, especially with his novel All the Light We Cannot See.
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I ought to read Dracula at some point! You’ve inspired me 🙂
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Aww I’m so glad! It’s a slog at some points, but worth it in the end! 🙂
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I thought about DNFing A Streetcar Named Desire, but I was reading it for A Level so I couldn’t really 😛 I’m glad I finished it, but I didn’t like the treatment of women at all (although I know it was mostly to set up a social commentary about society of the time). Recently, I almost DNF’d The Smoke Thieves, but I don’t DNF books very often, so I carried on until the end. Sadly it didn’t live up to any of my expectations!
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I’ve never read The Smoke Thieves, but it sounds like you made a good choice there 🙂
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I’m glad that I read a lot of those. I can’t remember if I contemplated DNFing them (a few I read for school, so that wasn’t really an option if I wanted to do well in the class) but even if I didn’t enjoy them, I’m glad I read them.
I wasn’t feeling the topic this week, so I made up my own: https://franlaniado.wordpress.com/2018/06/05/top-ten-tuesday-indie-reads/
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Reading for classes is always the best motivation for continuing a book when you want to put it down 🙂
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I’m glad I finished Anna Karenina. I don’t love it, but I’m glad I stuck with it to the end.
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Oooh I can’t wait to read it! I’m so intrigued 🙂
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i just read a streetcar named desire and enjoyed it so much! same goes for dracula – i’m really glad i stuck with both of those too. & good to know with jane austen’s emma, b/c i’m saving that to be my last austen!! happy you liked it and that it’s worth sticking with 🙂
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I love that you have a book in mind to be your last Austen novel! Have you decided the entire order?
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lol yes! i’ve already read P&P, Persuasion, Northanger Abbey, and S&S, and i’m planning on Mansfield Park, then Love & Freindship (the penguin clothbound bindup), then close it out with Emma :p
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WHOA so planned!! 🙂
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I want to try and tackle War and Peace later on this year but it’s a bit intimidating ! Great list 😊
My TTT: https://lifewithallthebooks.com/2018/06/05/top-ten-tuesday-books-i-wish-i-had-dnfd/
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Thanks so much! War and Peace is very intimidating, but also surprisingly manageable if you break it up into pieces and read shorter sections of it over time 🙂
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Really glad to see you didn’t DNF the Time Keeper. I love that book ❤
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It’s such a sweet book! 🙂
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Wow, you have certainly had some perseverance to get through some of these classics!
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Thanks!! 🙂
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I am glad I finished Dracula though more for knowing the source material than anything else.
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True! There are so many references to it everywhere else 🙂
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I guess I am extremely good at DNFing books and really am struggling to think of a book I was glad I kept on reading. 🙈 I think some of the classics were hard to read but worth it in the end but I can’t remember quite which ones.. 😊
I actually tried reading Dracula 🧛♂️ but also DNF it. It is just not for me I think.
Great list! 😊
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Oooh Dracula is understandable. There’s such a shift in excitement and tone from the castle part to the rest of the novel!
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I thought about reading the Goldfinch. Guess I should be glad I didn’t!
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It was a great book in the end, just a really LONG one 🙂
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I’m so impressed you got through all of these haha I’m always so impatient with classics
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Thanks!! 🙂 Some of my most favorite books are classics ❤
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I love Emma and Streetcar, and I’m glad I read War and Peace. I didn’t love The Goldfinch, though I wanted to. On the Road was a bit of a slog for me but I did finish it. Great topic!
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Thanks so much! 🙂
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Hmm, I’m thinking about starting Goldfinch, as well as Emma, so it’s encouraging that you found them fulfilling in the end. 🙂 Great post!
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The Goldfinch may feel like a slog at times, but it’s worth it overall. You just have to power through! 🙂
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Dracula is probably my favourite classic next to Sherlock Holmes.
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Dracula has definitely grown on me! 🙂
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Lol wow. There are four books there that I absolutely love. Surprising to see you didn’t finish Emma, it tends to be everyone’s favourite after Pride and Prejudice.
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I DID finish all of these books, although I thought about giving up on them at the beginning. I’m glad I stuck with them in the end!
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Oh… perhaps I need glasses, I apologise that I didn’t read it correctly. Glad you finished them and glad you loved them. Especially the Goldfinch being such a marmite book.
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