Twitter - It took me a while to really ‘get it’ but now that I have I am obsessed with this micro-blogging medium. The challenge of getting your point over in 140 characters or less as well as being able to chat with people from all over the world and from all walks of life is pretty incredible.
It is this sense of community that I really enjoy being part of, especially in the blogging world where twitter is a great tool to find new bloggers, share your posts and have a chat with like minded people. It was during one of these chats when I asked other lifestyle bloggers if there was a specific book blogger chat, turns out there wasn’t one so it was decided to start our own.
Every Tuesday evening between 7-8pm UK time you can join us on twitter using the hashtag #bookbloggers or follow @BookBlogChat to talk all things books. Whether you have a dedicated book blog or just the odd book review then please take part. You don’t even need to have a blog but if you are passionate about books then it would be great to hear from you!
The topic for last weeks BookBlogChat was ‘perseverance and challenges’, as we have all had times when reading a book we are not enjoying that we make a decision either to carry on or give up. But giving up on a book comes with this sense of guilt and shame, especially if it is a book that others raved about and you are left scratching your head thinking ‘meh’.
This guilty feeling seems to occur as you know a struggling author out there has put their heart and soul into something that you are holding in your hands but just don’t care about. Whether you don’t connect with the characters, the plot is too confusing or unrealistic or it is soooooo slow to get going that you use it as a sleeping aid.
What came out of the BookBlogChat was that:
‘Life is too short to waste time on bad books’
So the next time when you are forcing yourself to read another page just so you can understand why your friend who lent it to you loved it so much, but now you are questioning this friendship, just give it up and move on. That’s the beauty of books I guess it isn’t one size fits all.
Which books have you struggled to finish and enjoy? Did you give it up or push through to finish it?
