Welcome to part two of my continuation of my mid-year check in! Earlier I did a whole post talking about my top 5 books I have read so far this year. Now, it is time to talk about the bottom 5 books I have read this year. If you would like to see my top 5 you. can find that. here:Let’s Talk | Top 5 Books I Have Read So Far This Year. Anyway, I don’t want to do too much. of an introduction, but the books I mentioned just didn’t do. it. for me personally for one reason or another. That doesn’t mean they are a bad book or that you can’t like them. I just didn’t and thankfully most of these were library books.
-The Books-
There is only a single “book” I gave so far this year and that would be a work by Shakespeare. Since I first read some of his works back in high school, I did not enjoy them in the slightest. I thought that this feeling was mainly due to teachers in the past making me read a bunch of them. Turns out, I still don’t like the plays all that much. Maybe it would be different if I saw one of them preformed, but I just thought it was WAY too dramatic.
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
So far there is only one book I have given two stars and this would be The Woman in the Dark. I was just bored by it and I don’t really think it has anything to do with the book. I just read a lot of thrillers and this one never really surprised me or kept my interest. I think It was just predictable because I read so many of them. The writing itself was good and the author is talented, just the plot of me was meh.
The Woman in the Dark by Vanessa Savage
The fact that I need to list any three star reads is great in my eyes. That means I have not read a lot of books that I didn’t enjoy. I am finally getting better at finding books I am more likely to enjoy. But, while these books are not bad at all, they are at the lower end of my rating scale.
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
While this was an enjoyable book, I was not wowed by it. It was just something I read and moved on. It was not notable for me personally.
Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough
Behind her eyes has a similar reason as The Woman in the Dark apart from the ending being surprising. I was just not totally feeling into the story as I read, but I liked it enough to finish it.
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace was good, just I was not that drawn into the lives of the people I was reading about. These stories are very character driven in my opinion and if you are not feeling the characters you most likely wont enjoy it very much.
Bookish Luna 
Oh it is indeed very nice that you only have one 1 star and one 2 star!
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Yeah, I was kinda surprised because I tend to have more of them. While it is not great to have 3 star books on my list, it also says a lot about the books I have read this year.
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Yay for not having too many one and two star reads! I enjoyed The Woman in the Dark and Behind Her Eyes, but I also don’t read too many thrillers so they both really surprised me. One of my coworkers recently made me read one of her favorite books from high school, Something Girl, and I hated it so much. I felt bad because she used to love it, but it was so short and the writing wasn’t good.
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Yeah, I think I have read a lot of thriller lately and I need to lay off of them a little bit. It always stinks when you read someones favorite book and you don’t like it, but it happens. At least it was on the shorter side and wasn’t a tome. A lot of credit for reading and finishing though.
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Good to hear that you didn’t have too many books that you rated lowly. Hope that the good streak continues for you through the rest of the year!
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Thank-you I hope it continues too. 🤞 It is nice when you keep reading books that are 3 stars and up for the most part. Nothing worse than reading a book you really don’t like.
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Finale & The Last House Guest
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A lot of classics on this list. They tend to be the books at the top of my least enjoyed too!
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I think there are so many because I have been reading so many more classics that are not in my normal classic genre if that makes sense. I adore classics most of the time. But, like I said in the post there are 3 star books on this list because I have been doing really well with good book choices this year.
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