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Posted on March 6, 2016May 30, 2017

Reading Interrupted: BFD to the DNF

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - quote

My February reading roundup included almost as many DNF titles as it did completed ones. Typically, DNF implies a book and reader failed to connect on some level. Conventional wisdom says if we love a book, we read it from beginning to end, possibly without putting it down. Not finishing a book must mean something went wrong along the way. Continue reading “Reading Interrupted: BFD to the DNF”

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