Happy Saturday bibliophiles! I went back to school on Wednesday and…I’m already tired, but it’s great to see my friends again and there wasn’t much homework this week, so I’m happy. For now.
Anyway, I was in the mood to do a book tag, so here we are. I found this tag over at Fatma @ The Book Place, and the tag was originally created by Gunpowder, Fiction & Plot on YouTube.
Let’s begin, shall we?
📖THE DNF BOOK TAG📖
1. DO YOU DNF?
Indeed I do. It happens less these days, what with my taste slowly being fine-tuned over the years, but I still end up DNFing a handful of books every year.
2. IF YOU DO DNF, DOES IT COUNT FOR YOUR FINISHED BOOKS FOR THE MONTH?
I’ve only started to keep track of the amount of books I read per month this year, but I still count them. I read part of them, anyway, and they still count towards my Goodreads goal, so I still think they count.
3. IS THERE A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DNFING & JUST PUTTING THE BOOK DOWN FOR A LITTLE BIT?
Well…uh…I’ve never had an experience where I just put the book down for a little bit (I can’t read more than one book at once unless there’s a book for school involved), so I wouldn’t know…
4. WHAT POPULAR BOOKS HAVE YOU DNFED?
I DNFed A Curse So Dark and Lonely, Red Queen, and An Absolutely Remarkable Thing at different times for different reasons (didn’t like any of the love interests/couldn’t hold my interest, every bad YA trope known to man, and some SERIOUSLY iffy bisexual rep, in order), but everybody else seems to love these ones…not my cup of tea, really.
5. WHAT ARE SOME BOOKS YOU WISHED YOU DNFED?
When I read Night Owls and Summer Skies, I didn’t know that it was acceptable to DNF an ARC, so I tried to plow through it…I ended up finishing it in about an hour and a half, but it just sucked the whole way through. I felt obligated to finish Deep Blue because I’d bought it, but it didn’t get better. At all. PAIN. And Wings of Ebony…man, I feel really bad about giving this one such a low rating, but the only good thing I have to say about it is that I loved the unapologetic approach to racism/colonialism. Otherwise…yikes.
6. HAVE YOU EVER RE-ATTEMPTED TO READ A DNF, AND WAS THIS SUCCESSFUL FOR YOU?
Nope. Usually when I DNF a book, I hate it with a passion, and even if middle school Madeline did it a bit too frequently, there’s usually no going back with DNFs for me.
7. WHAT DO YOU DO WITH DNFED BOOKS?
If it’s on my Kindle, I’ll delete it, and if I borrowed it from the library (which is most often the case), I derive great joy from forcefully shoving it in the return machine. Usually I don’t end up DNFing books that I bought physical copies of, but in that case, I donate them.
I TAG:
- Phoenix @ Books With Wings
- Sabrina @ Notes from a Paper Plane Nomad
- Cherelle @ A Bolt out of the Book
- Saniya @ Sunnyside Reviews
- Cherry @ Letters to the Lost
- + anyone else who wants to participate! If you see this tag and want to do it, I can’t wait to see your answers! If I tagged you and you’ve already done it/don’t want to do it, my bad!
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That’s it for this book tag! Have a wonderful rest of your day, and take care of yourselves!
The Bookish Mutant 
Ooooh this looks fun, thanks for the tag!! I’m glad I found out it was acceptable to DNF an ARC, it’s really annoying otherwise because it’s not like it’ll likely end up being a positive review anyway… so really it’s in everyone’s interest for an advance reader to DNF if they’re not feeling it 😂
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Of course!! Agh me too…I haven’t DNF’ed an ARC before but I wish I’d known that it was okay because Night Owls was a SLOG to get through
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This looks like an interesting tag to do but I’ve definitely DNF’ed over the years. Specifically a lot this year.
It was probably for the best that you DNF’ed A Curse So Dark and Lonely cause while I enjoyed the first and the second book I couldn’t be bothered to finish the last book in the series cause I just didn’t care.
Have a great day or night!
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Oh jeez I’m sorry that your interest in Cursebreakers fizzled out, I really appreciated the disability rep but everything else was just meh
Thanks, you too! 🙂
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I feel so guilty after dnf-ing a book but all those feelings go when I write a rant about it😂
Omg A curse so dark and lonely has a lot of hype I’m terrified now😥 Red queen was good but Glass Sword was 🔪
Amazing tag!
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EXACTLY I always feel bad giving books such low ratings so I just pour all that emotion into the review
Oof yeah it’s been a few years since I DNF’d it but maybe you’d like it, who knows
Thanks! 🙂
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Thanks for the tag Madeline! I end up feeling so guilty sometimes dnfing ARCs, but then again it would have ended up being a bad review anways 😅
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Of course!! YEAH I felt so much guilt with Night Owls but…god that book was painful
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Ooh this looks really fun! And ahh red Queen. I almost dnfed it but I was curious abt that plot twist everyone kept Raving abt. And at the end it was predictable 😑 😂 great post and damn. I know u dnfed night owl and summer skies but that’s a lovely cover haha.
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OOF yikes yeah I’m glad I didn’t stick around for much with Red Queen
Thank you!!
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Oh, fun tag! I force myself to finish books generally and a DNF is very rare for me so I think I would struggle with this one! Interesting answers though, especially the popular ones!
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Thank you!! Yeah I’ve started to do it less and less over the years but there’s some books where I just lose my patience so quickly
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I LOVE BEN WHISHAW
Also you’re missing nothing with Curse So Dark And Lonely, it was slow as heck and book three was so disappointing.
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I’VE ONLY SEEN HIM IN FARGO BUT HE WAS FANTASTIC AAAAH
OOF well I’m glad I’m not alone on that one, everybody else seemed to love it skdjhfs
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HE WAS IN FARGO?! Somehow I missed this 😭
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YEAH HE WAS IN THE NEW SEASON
that’s what my pfp is from skdjfhskjfh
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thank you so much for the tag!! I really liked what you said about dnfing. I dnf around 1 book per 1-2 months. It’s very helpful to prevent reading slumps. nice post!!
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Of course!! Oh that’s interesting, I didn’t think that it could be a way to prevent a slump, interesting insight! Thank you!! 🙂
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