Snips and Snails and Puppy Dog Tales

78) Back to Earth by Danilo Clementoni. A self-published and translated book. I didn't get more than a couple pages into it, because radically wrong words were being used. What a waste.

79) The Earth Wire by Joel Lane. Described as "British urban weird fiction". What in the world was I thinking?

80) Alternate Presidents by assorted authors. A collection of stories about what would happen if whichever president won had actually lost. First story: 50 or so pages, all in italics. I couldn't read it. Second story: About Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr (sir). It was the funniest experience attempting to read it. It was (of course) so different than the Hamilton musical, but apparently that Hamilton and Burr are forever in my head as the "right" characterization, so I couldn't read the story at all, because it was so "wrong". Sorry, author, my bad.

81) Everything Asian by Sung J Woo. I'm so tired of saying "I have no idea how this got on my Kindle". Contemporary fiction is about the last genre I read. This was just a stream of consciousness thing about a Korean woman going back to the neighborhood she grew up in. Maybe this was one of those free books Amazon used to give away?

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This is, by far, the most books I've DNFed in one year since I started book blogging. In 2015, I had 18. In 2014 I had 8. It's good not to force yourself to finish books you're not enjoying, but 80+ is so many.

I think at some point (2019-ish) I just put any book that looked even a little interested on my Kindle, so I'm weeding them out now. I'm a lot more picky nowadays.