I used to be the kind of person who never DNF’d - if I started a book, I’d feel obligated to finish it no matter how I felt about it. Nowadays I’m older and wiser and I’ll DNF left and right with zero regret. Life is far too short to waste it reading shitty books.
Once I came to the realization that it is literally impossible to read every single book I’d want to read in my lifetime, I’m not going to spend time on books I don’t enjoy, books I think I should be reading etc. I am a DNF fiend lol, but I try to avoid it by making it a goal with my TBR’s to be intentional and realistic about what I read
I feel like authors who create these ridiculous and impossible names are only hurting themselves because if a reader is using so much time just trying to figure wtf it says then it’s really taking away from the story.
Hell yes I DNF!! Life is too short and there are far too many amazing books out there for me to waste my time and energy on something I'm not enjoying. I DNF at various points in a book, depending on why I'm not liking it. Embrace the DNF. Haha!
I am so glad I found you about 2 weeks ago. You are the most entertaining book tuber I’m subscribed to or have seen videos of. Some of them try to be upbeat and energetic but the books they talk about…bleh, even as excited as they are about said book, they’re boring. I’ve been binge watching your videos and I’ve been in stitches with every one, especially when you vlogged, I believe it was The Jade War. At the end of the book, I seriously thought you were going to rip it in half with how angry you were. Also the tipsy one where you were drinking raspberry flavored alcohol had me dying I was laughing so hard. Thank you for wrapping up the end of my year with laughter. 🥂
I used to force myself to read every book I started. The last couple of years have taught me that life is too short to read something that won't hold my attention. Now I have embraced that DNF life! 😆
The first six chapters of 'Rebecca' were a DRAG - at least it was for me - but once I hit the seventh chapter, oh my goodness, did things become so much more interesting. 'Rebecca' is one of my top 5 reads this year soI really hope that you give it one more shot!
When you showed the names from the goblin emperor, I immediately removed it from my TBR 🤣 “elvish is easier to understand than whatever the f*** her stuff was” 💀💀💀
I had to read Rebecca in high school, and I’m glad my teacher made us. I definitely think it starts out as confusing and a little weird. The mystery of it all as you keep reading was what kept my English class hooked. Every class we got to sit in a circle and just freely discuss what we thought, like a little book club. I think that’s how we were able to enjoy it so much. I think it’s better to find someone to discuss with.
Definitely DNF, but more often I put things on hold due to mood. I almost wrote out a long ass comment about Battle Royal before realizing that wasn't the book I DNFed - it was Rosaline Palmer Takes The Cake. Um, these might be the same book. 😅
YES yes YES to DNFing. Two categories of DNF for me. One is more like a pause-a book I am liking well enough, but not in the mood for whatever reason. Will likely try again at some point. Leave the bookmark in it. The second is: NOT FOR ME. Full stop. Return, donate, move on. The world has more amazing books that I will LOVE than I will ever have the time to read this lifetime. Onward to the next great book!
I've never really DNF'd before, but this year I just read so much good stuff and wanted to keep reading good stuff, and like 4 hours into the audio of Bunny by Mona Awad, I was just done. Didn't care about the characters, was not into the weirdness, was dreading having to listen to more. So happy I moved on!
I just finished Orquidea Divina a few days ago, and I LOVED it, but I definitely needed the physical book to follow. Even reading the names can be confusing, but there is a family tree included, which helped. And a lot of things felt disconnected at first, but they tie up pretty well. I'm also big on DNF'ing books these days. I just don't have the energy to stick with things that don't hold my attention, and I only have the capacity for one or two hate reads a year.
Finlay Donovan Is Killing It is ridiculous and I didn't like it either at first. Once I decided it was supposed to be over the top and "campy", I enjoyed it.
i personally try not to dnf because i'm someone who needs to know why i don't like something and normally finishing the entire story helps me conceptualize my criticisms, but i did dnf sarah j maas' "crescent city" because i knew it was going to be bad but it ended up being a miserable kind of bad. not the fun kind.
This has been the first year that I have DNF books and not felt guilty about it. Some books have a good synopsis but the execution can be ok to terrible.
I feel strangely validated when people dnf station eleven even though I finished it and didn't really hate it that much :') But I hope you'll enjoy the adaptation! I only dnfed two books this year, Norwegian woods by Murakami and The Orphan Master's son by Adam Johnson. Nothing makes me quit a book faster than unessecary out of the blue homophobia :')
I really need to start DNF ing as part of self care. I think of dropping a book but it makes me feel guilty so I continue reading it 😭 I wasted so much of my time on such books.
I'm reading "A Marvellous Light" right now and loving it. But I love historical fiction (and magical realism, and gay stories), so people who don't might not be as into it.
I DNF! I can relate to you as well, some of my dnf's are "never coming back" and others are "I'll pick this back up later". One book I DNF'd this year was Black Leopard Red Wolf. I didn't get on with it at all, and probably won't try again.
I recently DNFed The Girl of Fire and Thorns. After I read about half of it I had this vibe that the trajectory would suck, so I skipped ahead to skim a bit, and I was not wrong at all (I have never minded spoilers and being that way has saved me countless hours of wasted time).
I read Island Queen and I loved it. Vanessa Riley writes a lot of historical romance so the if you read a ton of those the style was similar. This book had like an Alex Haley vibe to it to me. It was a long fictional chronicle of a true person's life Dorothy Thomas aka Dolly. Dolly was a slave whose father was a White Plantation owner. Dolly was an entrepreneur who owned a store and a hotel. She went on to free herself and many of her family members. She also owned one of the largest slave plantations in the West Indies. She fought for the rights of free Black women . She was definitely a very interesting and complicated character and person, sorry this story didn't work out for you. I hope a film adaptation is made because I think Dorothy has an interesting history.
I wish I could DNF a book. I have DNF'd for now but the stress of having it unfinished is too much. I tend to skim those books that I don't vibe with just to "finish" them. I don't have a problem DNF'ing a series. So if I didn't connect with a book, I'm okay not knowing how the series ended up. You are hilarious! Happy New Year!
I don’t DNF on a regular basis, but I will absolutely put a book down that I’m not feeling at the moment, and sometimes it can take me a loooooong time to finish. The only books I really have DNFed to my memory are The Name of the Wind and Fifty Shades of Grey.
yes the first chapters of Rebecca was confusing!! i almost DNF-ed it because of that but i kept going regardless and it turned out to be my favorite book i read in 2021 lol
Thank you for confirming Finlay Donovan would be too #quirky for me!! okay I LOVE excruciatingly slow burn so I'm actually more interested in Battle Royal now 😂 I DNF *super* rarely, and usually only at the very beginning of a book when I realize I misunderstood the premise or something (not every time that happens, just once in a while there's a feeling of 'oh wait this is not something I want to read and this isn't what I thought I was getting')
Good to know. I eat at Panera so now I know where to go if I ever want to hire a contract killer. 😅 I would have thought somewhere like a seedy bar in a bad part of town, but apparently you Really need to look out for those ⚽️ mom's. Apparently, they can have side businesses that are Not Etsy shops.🤣 Blasphemy, you DNF'd Ice Planet Barbarians. Yeah, the 1st is a pretty heavy start. Most of them are campy and fun.
@@JessOwens I feel like Ace of Spades is dark academia (?) I really enjoyed that one! But really stressful to read, like I couldn’t sleep till it was finished
Loved hearing this! OMG I love making up words and language for fantasy and I enjoy what authors do with this generally but wow, hard agree that those were just on another level that even I could deal with if I’d ever cracked that book open... I started DNFing last year, and I am happy about my decision. Thankfully it still rarely happens, but I’m glad I’ve given myself the space and grace to do it, I don’t know why I held off on DNFing for so long! Happy New Year Jess!📚🎊📚🎊📚
i am a DNFer. i started DNFing books in 2020 and it was so freeing! i DNFd 51 books in 2021! i know some people have a limit they have to reach before they can stop reading but i personally don't ascribe to that. i DNF at 10 pages, 50 pages, 200 pages, whatever. life is too short and i love myself too much to suffer through a book i'm hating, or am bored silly by lol
I definitely DNF! I have way too much I want to read to waste time on something I don't enjoy. But I've had pretty good luck with picking stuff that's at least good enough to finish lately!
Two books come to mind that I DNFed this year: Rodman by Curtis Sittenfeld All the names they used for g-d by Anjali Sachdeva After getting through a C. Clare book and some of the PC Cast books I had started DNFing books. Hadn't prior.
I used to never DNF. Now I DNF like crazy (probably too much). I have read so many books that it gets harder to find one that hits the mood I am looking for.
That Station Eleven DNF hurt lol. I wanted to read The Goblin Emperor years ago but just kept pushing it down the tbr. After hearing your thoughts, I have zero interest in it now 😆 Happy New Year, Jess! 💚
Hi, Jess! I'm new here! Came here by way of Angela's channel. And when you said Finlay Donovan I gasped. 😳😄 I loved Finlay Donovan but I definitely get where you're coming from. That one hurt though. 😄 You had me laughing several times during this video though! I DNF'D over 20 books in 2021 so I get it. Here's to great reads in 2022! 🥂
I borrowed audio version of Island Queen. I think I got 10% in when I dnf’d it. I totally agree with you - the narrator was terrible. And based on your take I won’t be giving physical copy a chance either.
I hardly dnf. Book I dnf'd this year I can remember was Gods and Monsters by Laini Taylor. I cant remember what I rated my Soul to keep but i remember it was slow paced in the beginning. I enjoyed it but I didn't love it.
Station Eleven is one of my favourites books, and I reread last year and I am planning to reread it this year. But I also get it because there are a lot of characters and different perspectives and there this one character that I really wanted to know what happened to and I found out but it was near the end like final chapters kind of near the end. I would argue the actual plotline is kind of weak and uninteresting, aka the aspect where people were going missing and something may have been following them. But i still loved it, and I actually liked the way it was written, especially when the most poetic lines were just randomly dropped.
I'm reading Inheritance of Orquidea Divina right now (i'm about a third in) and i really love it, but there are a LOT of characters/names. I don't remember who all everyone is, but for the most part you only need to keep track of like 4 of them, so that's made it simpler lol
I also didn't know what Station Eleven was going to be about -- I thought it was a zombie book?! But I read it in Dec bc I wanted to finish the book before i see the show 🙃 there were some slow parts but it all came together in the end. I hope they do a good job w the live action version!
I DNF'd Miss Peregrin's Home for Peculiar Children, Agatha Christie's Halloween Party, Witchmark (!!), and an anthology called Geektastic, plus a couple comics. No regrets!!! (Well, I kinda feel sad about Witchmark, but it's really not for me, so...)
I'll DNF for sure. If I don't feel like continuing but am sad, I'll see if I like the book better in a different format. Sometimes I like certain types of stories in audiobook form (more personal & emotional/reflective stories) and audiobooks with different actors for different characters can really make a difference. But if I'm over it then yeah I'm out lol.
I inhaled the first nine books in The Ice Planet Barbarian series…I loved the second one the best…I hope you give some of them a shot because they’re really good 😊
Oh my gosh are you talking about a slow burn then, the Wall of Winnipeg and me, is the way to go!!! I actually didn’t really care that it wasn’t romantic in nature until the very end. But I could see the tension and that was here for it! Is it thiccccc book tho, but it was thoroughly enjoyable!
@@JessOwens aww that sucks, I’m sorry you didn’t enjoy the experience! Did you at least finish the book, so you could say you at least read tome for tome challenge?
The Station Eleven show is WILDLY different from the book, which might be good or bad for you. I love the book and am not liking the show, which I think really missed the message of the book in favor of making it more "post-apocalyptic survival" when the book is very focused on "survival on its own is not enough."
Omg I thought I was the only one who felt that way about Island Queen! I just couldn’t get what the words on the page were saying..i DNF’d East of Eden at 57% yesterday I just couldn’t take that book anymore
I started DNFing this year because I do not read enough for the amount I own, and it feels so good. I agree with Station Eleven. Amazing start but I soon lost interest.
if i didn't DNF i'd never get to read as many AMAZING books as i do! B) DNF'ing is mandatory for inner peace and joy too, imo. (@the maidens... giving that guy up saved my life span)
Don’t worry Jess, those girls are going to have to tussle with the both of us. Because Finlay Donovan gave 2 star ⭐️ ⭐️ vibes for me. The internet really let me down with this one.
I do DNF but rarely. I have established a system where I thoroughly research a book and reviews before I get it. I've been doing this since 2019 and so far it has proven successful, I am VERY selective and so I end up enjoying almost everything I read.
I tend to not DNF. I like writing reviews on goodreads and prefer to know the ending to make it appropriately scathing. I did DNF one book this year, it was very obviously written out of spite towards a book reviewer and was just a poorly written story over a heaping pile of gross.
Same for me. I tried a chapter of Station Eleven and didn't like it. But I plan to watch the show. Also tried The Goblin Emperor. Got far into it and just couldn't tell you what was going on. Island Queen... I think the writing was a lot. Needed a good editor. Book was WAY too long. I like the narrator (she was on Bridgerton).
The premise of that hitwoman book alone is too much for me. Like, someone passes you a note asking you to kill someone because they overheard you talking about a book? That they thought was your actual career? Literally could be solved by saying a single sentence. "Um are you stupid I'm talking about my book what sane person would talk about being an actual assassin where other people could hear?" Book over. The end.
I DNF books but i'm much more likely to DNF something if it's an audio or ebook that returns to the library (and that i felt indifferent about) or just something I don't care about, if I hate a book (especially if i know other people liked it) i'll usually push through, and that's my toxic trait
At this point I know what I like to read and don’t even waste my time on books I know I’m not going to enjoy, so I have no DNF’s. But I will DNF a book if I need to.
I was the same with Rebecca! I tried to start it over and over and was like "....Wut?". I really feel like I would love it but I struggled too much, lol. Hoping to try again someday...
Honestly, it took me a moment to get into Rebecca. I would recommend if you were to give it another shot, to read the first quarter of the book. If you are not feeling it then, then it may not be for you.
I really wanted to like Station Eleven because I only heard good things about it. It was on every postapocalyptic book list but it was just plain boring. I enjoyed the first 1, 2 chapters but when we got to the Shakespeare stuff it just made me bored.
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I DNF all the time. Life’s too short to read books you don’t like.
Amen!
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I used to be the kind of person who never DNF’d - if I started a book, I’d feel obligated to finish it no matter how I felt about it. Nowadays I’m older and wiser and I’ll DNF left and right with zero regret. Life is far too short to waste it reading shitty books.
My origin story. So True.
Once I came to the realization that it is literally impossible to read every single book I’d want to read in my lifetime, I’m not going to spend time on books I don’t enjoy, books I think I should be reading etc. I am a DNF fiend lol, but I try to avoid it by making it a goal with my TBR’s to be intentional and realistic about what I read
I feel like authors who create these ridiculous and impossible names are only hurting themselves because if a reader is using so much time just trying to figure wtf it says then it’s really taking away from the story.
Exactly !
This!
I'm honestly going to be more ruthless with my dnf'ing in 2022 and yes dnf'ing is self care😌.
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Hell yes I DNF!! Life is too short and there are far too many amazing books out there for me to waste my time and energy on something I'm not enjoying. I DNF at various points in a book, depending on why I'm not liking it. Embrace the DNF. Haha!
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Rebecca is definitely confusing at first but so worth the full read!! Almost DNF’d it a couple times but ended up being one of my favourites.
"I know how you girls like to tussle" that got me lol
great video as always :) love to see DNFs, truly!!
I love that sound on tiktok 😂
I am so glad I found you about 2 weeks ago. You are the most entertaining book tuber I’m subscribed to or have seen videos of. Some of them try to be upbeat and energetic but the books they talk about…bleh, even as excited as they are about said book, they’re boring.
I’ve been binge watching your videos and I’ve been in stitches with every one, especially when you vlogged, I believe it was The Jade War. At the end of the book, I seriously thought you were going to rip it in half with how angry you were. Also the tipsy one where you were drinking raspberry flavored alcohol had me dying I was laughing so hard. Thank you for wrapping up the end of my year with laughter. 🥂
Thank you so much 🥺 I love making people laugh 😭😭
I used to force myself to read every book I started. The last couple of years have taught me that life is too short to read something that won't hold my attention. Now I have embraced that DNF life! 😆
I need to learn to DNF books more
The first six chapters of 'Rebecca' were a DRAG - at least it was for me - but once I hit the seventh chapter, oh my goodness, did things become so much more interesting. 'Rebecca' is one of my top 5 reads this year soI really hope that you give it one more shot!
When you showed the names from the goblin emperor, I immediately removed it from my TBR 🤣 “elvish is easier to understand than whatever the f*** her stuff was” 💀💀💀
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Lol 😂. The names in Goblin Emperor were insane. The narrator deserved an award 😂
Truly !
I had to read Rebecca in high school, and I’m glad my teacher made us. I definitely think it starts out as confusing and a little weird. The mystery of it all as you keep reading was what kept my English class hooked. Every class we got to sit in a circle and just freely discuss what we thought, like a little book club. I think that’s how we were able to enjoy it so much. I think it’s better to find someone to discuss with.
Definitely DNF, but more often I put things on hold due to mood. I almost wrote out a long ass comment about Battle Royal before realizing that wasn't the book I DNFed - it was Rosaline Palmer Takes The Cake. Um, these might be the same book. 😅
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YES yes YES to DNFing. Two categories of DNF for me. One is more like a pause-a book I am liking well enough, but not in the mood for whatever reason. Will likely try again at some point. Leave the bookmark in it. The second is: NOT FOR ME. Full stop. Return, donate, move on. The world has more amazing books that I will LOVE than I will ever have the time to read this lifetime. Onward to the next great book!
Yasss to this! Tessa Dare is my pause dnf for me atm. I have to be in my emotions to read most historicals
I've never really DNF'd before, but this year I just read so much good stuff and wanted to keep reading good stuff, and like 4 hours into the audio of Bunny by Mona Awad, I was just done. Didn't care about the characters, was not into the weirdness, was dreading having to listen to more. So happy I moved on!
I finished Bunny … and you were smart to DNF 😂
I just finished Orquidea Divina a few days ago, and I LOVED it, but I definitely needed the physical book to follow. Even reading the names can be confusing, but there is a family tree included, which helped. And a lot of things felt disconnected at first, but they tie up pretty well.
I'm also big on DNF'ing books these days. I just don't have the energy to stick with things that don't hold my attention, and I only have the capacity for one or two hate reads a year.
Finlay Donovan Is Killing It is ridiculous and I didn't like it either at first. Once I decided it was supposed to be over the top and "campy", I enjoyed it.
i personally try not to dnf because i'm someone who needs to know why i don't like something and normally finishing the entire story helps me conceptualize my criticisms, but i did dnf sarah j maas' "crescent city" because i knew it was going to be bad but it ended up being a miserable kind of bad. not the fun kind.
I absolutely DNF. It used to make me feel bad but I have such a long TBR that I don't worry about it anymore.
This has been the first year that I have DNF books and not felt guilty about it. Some books have a good synopsis but the execution can be ok to terrible.
I feel strangely validated when people dnf station eleven even though I finished it and didn't really hate it that much :') But I hope you'll enjoy the adaptation!
I only dnfed two books this year, Norwegian woods by Murakami and The Orphan Master's son by Adam Johnson. Nothing makes me quit a book faster than unessecary out of the blue homophobia :')
Whew, Island Queen was a SNOOZEFEST. I DNF'd that thing so fast. I was bummed about that one too.
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I really need to start DNF ing as part of self care. I think of dropping a book but it makes me feel guilty so I continue reading it 😭 I wasted so much of my time on such books.
I'm reading "A Marvellous Light" right now and loving it. But I love historical fiction (and magical realism, and gay stories), so people who don't might not be as into it.
I usually enjoy historical fiction so I’m excited to read that sometime this year
I DNF! I can relate to you as well, some of my dnf's are "never coming back" and others are "I'll pick this back up later". One book I DNF'd this year was Black Leopard Red Wolf. I didn't get on with it at all, and probably won't try again.
Horrible book. Has chi*d ra*e as a plot line. 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
@@loriannwhite8384 omg. Looks like I made the right choice then. Thanks for the warning!
I recently DNFed The Girl of Fire and Thorns. After I read about half of it I had this vibe that the trajectory would suck, so I skipped ahead to skim a bit, and I was not wrong at all (I have never minded spoilers and being that way has saved me countless hours of wasted time).
Literally just DNF'd a book this morning, I couldn't cope!
I read Island Queen and I loved it. Vanessa Riley writes a lot of historical romance so the if you read a ton of those the style was similar. This book had like an Alex Haley vibe to it to me. It was a long fictional chronicle of a true person's life Dorothy Thomas aka Dolly. Dolly was a slave whose father was a White Plantation owner. Dolly was an entrepreneur who owned a store and a hotel. She went on to free herself and many of her family members. She also owned one of the largest slave plantations in the West Indies. She fought for the rights of free Black women . She was definitely a very interesting and complicated character and person, sorry this story didn't work out for you. I hope a film adaptation is made because I think Dorothy has an interesting history.
I DNF’ed a lot this year but most I went back to once I knew what to expect. I’m such a mood reader even though I set monthly tbrs
I do DNF but not as often as I should. That’s one thing I gotta do more in 2022.
I wish I could DNF a book. I have DNF'd for now but the stress of having it unfinished is too much. I tend to skim those books that I don't vibe with just to "finish" them. I don't have a problem DNF'ing a series. So if I didn't connect with a book, I'm okay not knowing how the series ended up. You are hilarious! Happy New Year!
I don’t DNF on a regular basis, but I will absolutely put a book down that I’m not feeling at the moment, and sometimes it can take me a loooooong time to finish. The only books I really have DNFed to my memory are The Name of the Wind and Fifty Shades of Grey.
YES!!! I DNF Books! Happy New Year!!!!!!
Happy new year !!
yes the first chapters of Rebecca was confusing!! i almost DNF-ed it because of that but i kept going regardless and it turned out to be my favorite book i read in 2021 lol
Thank you for confirming Finlay Donovan would be too #quirky for me!!
okay I LOVE excruciatingly slow burn so I'm actually more interested in Battle Royal now 😂
I DNF *super* rarely, and usually only at the very beginning of a book when I realize I misunderstood the premise or something (not every time that happens, just once in a while there's a feeling of 'oh wait this is not something I want to read and this isn't what I thought I was getting')
I like a mid burn. Not insta love and not super slow burn 😂
There are way too many books out there to force yourself to read something you're not enjoying. Also, those earring are the bomb
Thank you !
I kind of "soft dnf" so like I don't actively say I'm done with a book I will usually put it down temporarily but keep it in the back of my mind
I definitely DNF, but I need to do it more.
I constantly DNF. The Goblin Emperor is one of my favorite books but I will only ever listen to the audio.
Finally created a DNF list for my goodreads, because no longer trying to troll through hot rubbish.
Oh, good idea!
Good to know. I eat at Panera so now I know where to go if I ever want to hire a contract killer. 😅 I would have thought somewhere like a seedy bar in a bad part of town, but apparently you Really need to look out for those ⚽️ mom's. Apparently, they can have side businesses that are Not Etsy shops.🤣 Blasphemy, you DNF'd Ice Planet Barbarians. Yeah, the 1st is a pretty heavy start. Most of them are campy and fun.
I dnf’d The Ancient Nine at like 3% 😭😂 Can someone publish some good Dark Academia with a Black main character? Please! I’m begging!!!
WE DESERVE. WHERE IS IT !!?
@@JessOwens I feel like Ace of Spades is dark academia (?) I really enjoyed that one! But really stressful to read, like I couldn’t sleep till it was finished
Loved hearing this! OMG
I love making up words and language for fantasy and I enjoy what authors do with this generally but wow, hard agree that those were just on another level that even I could deal with if I’d ever cracked that book open... I started DNFing last year, and I am happy about my decision. Thankfully it still rarely happens, but I’m glad I’ve given myself the space and grace to do it, I don’t know why I held off on DNFing for so long! Happy New Year Jess!📚🎊📚🎊📚
i am a DNFer. i started DNFing books in 2020 and it was so freeing! i DNFd 51 books in 2021! i know some people have a limit they have to reach before they can stop reading but i personally don't ascribe to that. i DNF at 10 pages, 50 pages, 200 pages, whatever. life is too short and i love myself too much to suffer through a book i'm hating, or am bored silly by lol
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I definitely DNF! I have way too much I want to read to waste time on something I don't enjoy. But I've had pretty good luck with picking stuff that's at least good enough to finish lately!
I'm happy for you. I dnfed like 2 or 3 books this year. It's tough for me for whatever reason.
Two books come to mind that I DNFed this year:
Rodman by Curtis Sittenfeld
All the names they used for g-d by Anjali Sachdeva
After getting through a C. Clare book and some of the PC Cast books I had started DNFing books. Hadn't prior.
I definitely dnf! Sometimes a book isn't worth my time and sometimes I put something down to get back to later
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I used to never DNF. Now I DNF like crazy (probably too much). I have read so many books that it gets harder to find one that hits the mood I am looking for.
That Station Eleven DNF hurt lol. I wanted to read The Goblin Emperor years ago but just kept pushing it down the tbr. After hearing your thoughts, I have zero interest in it now 😆 Happy New Year, Jess! 💚
Your thoughts on Finlay Donovan are hilarious!! It does get pretty ridiculous but for some reason I enjoyed it
Station Eleven started out so strong and then … 😭😭😭 lol. Happy New Year !!
LOL "This was noontime working" (nodding with eyes closed and fish mouth).....LOL. you are too funny.
I have the worst habit of getting like 90% of the way through something (books, movies, whatever) and giving up that last 10%
DNFING FOR THE WIIIIIIIIINNNNNNN.
Hi, Jess! I'm new here! Came here by way of Angela's channel. And when you said Finlay Donovan I gasped. 😳😄 I loved Finlay Donovan but I definitely get where you're coming from. That one hurt though. 😄 You had me laughing several times during this video though! I DNF'D over 20 books in 2021 so I get it. Here's to great reads in 2022! 🥂
Hiiii! So sorry about Finlay 😬😬 but 👏🏾👏🏾 for all those DNFs, sometimes it just doesn’t work
Looks like I dodged a bullet with Ancient Nine. Also, orquidea is better in print. It has a family tree. I liked the audio but I was confused a lot.
I borrowed audio version of Island Queen. I think I got 10% in when I dnf’d it. I totally agree with you - the narrator was terrible. And based on your take I won’t be giving physical copy a chance either.
That’s so disappointing but that narrator was baaaad
I DNFd Island Queen too!!!!! I couldn’t get into it and felt soooooo bad
Thats kinda funny cause the names at 11:17 seem perfectly fine (for a fantasy setting) for me haha maybe cause im not an english-speaker idk
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I hardly dnf. Book I dnf'd this year I can remember was Gods and Monsters by Laini Taylor. I cant remember what I rated my Soul to keep but i remember it was slow paced in the beginning. I enjoyed it but I didn't love it.
Station Eleven is one of my favourites books, and I reread last year and I am planning to reread it this year. But I also get it because there are a lot of characters and different perspectives and there this one character that I really wanted to know what happened to and I found out but it was near the end like final chapters kind of near the end. I would argue the actual plotline is kind of weak and uninteresting, aka the aspect where people were going missing and something may have been following them. But i still loved it, and I actually liked the way it was written, especially when the most poetic lines were just randomly dropped.
Please give "Rebecca" another chance or watch the 1940's movie....it was really good.
The new movie is terrible :( but the book and Hitchcock movie are good!!
I also DNFed Station 11
Wise decision 😂😂
I'm reading Inheritance of Orquidea Divina right now (i'm about a third in) and i really love it, but there are a LOT of characters/names. I don't remember who all everyone is, but for the most part you only need to keep track of like 4 of them, so that's made it simpler lol
I also didn't know what Station Eleven was going to be about -- I thought it was a zombie book?! But I read it in Dec bc I wanted to finish the book before i see the show 🙃 there were some slow parts but it all came together in the end. I hope they do a good job w the live action version!
I DNF'd Miss Peregrin's Home for Peculiar Children, Agatha Christie's Halloween Party, Witchmark (!!), and an anthology called Geektastic, plus a couple comics. No regrets!!! (Well, I kinda feel sad about Witchmark, but it's really not for me, so...)
I just read a sample of Miss Peregrin's Home for Peculiar Children and I was like nope. 😄
@@NakiasHideaway you’re not missing anything. I like the premise but the series itself is meh.
@@NakiasHideaway It was not at all what I was expecting. I gave it to about the 60% mark, though, which is more than I usually do. It had its chance!
@@shamidkpzd Thank you for confirming that for me.
@@AndiBfishbowlwoman Yeah, 60% is pretty far.
HAPPPY NEW YEAR!
HAPPY NEW YEAR 🥳
I'll DNF for sure. If I don't feel like continuing but am sad, I'll see if I like the book better in a different format. Sometimes I like certain types of stories in audiobook form (more personal & emotional/reflective stories) and audiobooks with different actors for different characters can really make a difference. But if I'm over it then yeah I'm out lol.
Yes I Dnf’d books all time sometimes cuz I’m not in mood for or just I don’t want to continue reading anymore
I haven't heard these books (except for the 1st two).
It will take a lot out of me to unfinish reading a book. 📖😅
I inhaled the first nine books in The Ice Planet Barbarian series…I loved the second one the best…I hope you give some of them a shot because they’re really good 😊
I want to join the blue peen appreciation club!
@@JessOwens I’ll make sure to bring your membership up during our next monthly meeting 😉
I absolutley DNF! A book gets 50 pages or 3 chapters and if I'm not hooked, I move on 📚
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I'm sad cause I loved The Goblin Emperor but you are right. The names are an annoying barrier to the story.
Oh my gosh are you talking about a slow burn then, the Wall of Winnipeg and me, is the way to go!!! I actually didn’t really care that it wasn’t romantic in nature until the very end. But I could see the tension and that was here for it! Is it thiccccc book tho, but it was thoroughly enjoyable!
This one just wasn’t even giving me tension 😭
@@JessOwens aww that sucks, I’m sorry you didn’t enjoy the experience! Did you at least finish the book, so you could say you at least read tome for tome challenge?
The Station Eleven show is WILDLY different from the book, which might be good or bad for you. I love the book and am not liking the show, which I think really missed the message of the book in favor of making it more "post-apocalyptic survival" when the book is very focused on "survival on its own is not enough."
New to your channel. I liked and subscribed, love your humor and honesty.
Awh thank you 💕 welcome to the chaos
Oh, absolutely DNF. My time is too precious to waste on a book I don't like.
Amen
Oh my gosh …. That Ian Smith book sounds so gross. 😖😖😖 What a horrible couple of scenes you mentioned. Nasty.
Omg I thought I was the only one who felt that way about Island Queen! I just couldn’t get what the words on the page were saying..i DNF’d East of Eden at 57% yesterday I just couldn’t take that book anymore
I started DNFing this year because I do not read enough for the amount I own, and it feels so good.
I agree with Station Eleven. Amazing start but I soon lost interest.
if i didn't DNF i'd never get to read as many AMAZING books as i do! B) DNF'ing is mandatory for inner peace and joy too, imo. (@the maidens... giving that guy up saved my life span)
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Don’t worry Jess, those girls are going to have to tussle with the both of us. Because Finlay Donovan gave 2 star ⭐️ ⭐️ vibes for me. The internet really let me down with this one.
I do DNF but rarely. I have established a system where I thoroughly research a book and reviews before I get it. I've been doing this since 2019 and so far it has proven successful, I am VERY selective and so I end up enjoying almost everything I read.
I tend to not DNF. I like writing reviews on goodreads and prefer to know the ending to make it appropriately scathing. I did DNF one book this year, it was very obviously written out of spite towards a book reviewer and was just a poorly written story over a heaping pile of gross.
Same for me. I tried a chapter of Station Eleven and didn't like it. But I plan to watch the show.
Also tried The Goblin Emperor. Got far into it and just couldn't tell you what was going on.
Island Queen... I think the writing was a lot. Needed a good editor. Book was WAY too long. I like the narrator (she was on Bridgerton).
Oh nooo Braiding Sweetgrass is on the list hahaha I hope you enjoy it if you choose to reread the book :)
I definitely am going to wait for the right mindset and reread it ☺️
The premise of that hitwoman book alone is too much for me. Like, someone passes you a note asking you to kill someone because they overheard you talking about a book? That they thought was your actual career? Literally could be solved by saying a single sentence. "Um are you stupid I'm talking about my book what sane person would talk about being an actual assassin where other people could hear?" Book over. The end.
I DNF books but i'm much more likely to DNF something if it's an audio or ebook that returns to the library (and that i felt indifferent about) or just something I don't care about, if I hate a book (especially if i know other people liked it) i'll usually push through, and that's my toxic trait
At this point I know what I like to read and don’t even waste my time on books I know I’m not going to enjoy, so I have no DNF’s. But I will DNF a book if I need to.
Happy New Year 🎇🎇🎇🎇
Thank you, happy new year !
I DNF constantly. I got too many books to read to waste life on one I don't like.
I was the same with Rebecca! I tried to start it over and over and was like "....Wut?". I really feel like I would love it but I struggled too much, lol. Hoping to try again someday...
Celebrity Fit Club was a good show though 😅
Not me pausing the video to try to pronounce the names
“There was no flame. It was ice cold in here” 😂😂 definitely not a glowing endorsement for a romance
Man I wish I DNFd more, I hit a huge wall at the end of the year two and didnt reach much at all.
Honestly, it took me a moment to get into Rebecca. I would recommend if you were to give it another shot, to read the first quarter of the book. If you are not feeling it then, then it may not be for you.
I DNFd Station Eleven too, about 40% in. Did not care about the characters either.
I’m so mad bc the guy from the first chapter I wanted to see more of him
I really wanted to like Station Eleven because I only heard good things about it. It was on every postapocalyptic book list but it was just plain boring. I enjoyed the first 1, 2 chapters but when we got to the Shakespeare stuff it just made me bored.