So, how long does it take you to decide if you are done with a book, calling it quits? Me, I’m a very reluctant quitter. This is not any kind of a hard work ethic, I am simply all too prone to the belief that others know better than I. I must not be getting it, I think, then soldier on. After a disaster with a Dorothy Sayers mystery that involved intricate timetables for trains that I slogged through while on holiday last summer (On holiday! Think of all the other books I could have curled up with! I carted a box of books to the east coast and they languished while I plodded on and on and on with this awful thing.), I swore that I would never, ever waste time on a book that was not working.
I lied. I still find it very hard to give up on a book.
Well, Nancy Pearl, the only librarian to have her own action figure, has dictated from on high that I can quit after 50 pages. Check out her article in The Globe today.
Nathalie Foy 