Unfinished Tales
Sometimes, efforts fail. Books don’t end up getting read. So, to help make sure I re-try the ones I might like, and skip over the ones that sucked, here I’m listing all books I didn’t finish in 2008 and the reasons why.
- The Budapest Connection by Henry Lee and Jerry Labriola. Fiction by one of me favorite crime writers. The main character’s name is Doctor Harry Lee, and it goes downhill from there. For your own safety, please do not attempt.
- Escape by Carolyn Jessop and Laura Palmer. I read the second half only; I prefer the parts about overcoming and triumph to reading a blow-by-blow account of someone’s suffering. (My interest in most “horrifically abused as a child” memoirs = 0, as the suffering is 99% of the text.)
- Satifaction: the Science of Finding True Fulfillment by Gregory Berns. This one fell victim to “too many things checked out at once” syndrome, as non-fiction often does. I’ll go back and try it again when there’s time.
- Welcome to Your Brain: why you lose your car keys but never forget how to drive and other puzzles of everyday life by Sandra Aamodt. Too much title! Too much book! Another, less-busy time.
