It finally happened ... I persevered with a book and I DID like it in the end.

[roisin]

I have an irritating trait that I am incapable of giving up on a book part-way through, and I struggle on to the bitter end, though invariably am equally disappointed with the second half as with the first, and with the end as with the beginning. So I end up wondering why I wasted part of my life on this rubbish.

But it didn't happen this time. I read the Book Thief and really didn't get on with it. It was a huge battle most of the way through forcing myself to read it all. But the last few chapters were beautiful and made the struggle all worthwhile. I wept buckets of course.

awww Glad you did it I love books and am insanely stubborn, so I tend to finish everything just to spite the bad book (Yes, phrases involving noses and faces to spring to mind)

(Do you know you're in children's books?)

Yes ... I ummed and ahed about it. I think it's an adult book, but someone told me recently it's aimed at teenagers

So I'm not sure.

I generally read teenage books anyway as I run two reading clubs and have a keen 11 yr-old ds1 reader, so like to keep abreast of what they are reading. But I won't be recommending The Book Thief to them!

I've not read it I think it is on my pile here somewhere....

I tend to shove teenage in adult, but then I am odd.

Like Twilight etc - aimed at late teens I think, but soooooooooooo good I think sabriel is aimed at teens too

I struggled at the beginning but loved it in the end - although apparently it's supposed to bring a tear at the end - which it didn't [cold hearted emoticon]

I persevered with the book too.....and loved it in the end ((altho I to cried))

I bought mine in tesco and then, once I had read it, was quite shocked to see it in the older teen section in waterstones. not a teen book at all IMO!

But then, twilight should not be either..........I would not want to fight my teens over edward, so tis an adult book all the way!

So that is the pile i have it on

Supposed to bring a tear Twims? I sobbed and sobbed and sobbed

yup tis mine.

and if it is not named, can ya for me, and then you will remember whose pile it is belonging too.

nah, will probably still be on a pile at your house of "things i intend to swipe"

oh, so not at yours then already??

okay.......will hunt it down if it is at mine then and thrust it at you. will see if it beats you

It may be...

I am heartless it really didn't bring anything not even a misty eye

well.....it might still be here too.

I wouldn;t know, too many books