Ok, what is going on with my this reading month? It has been going at a snail’s pace. I’ve only finished one book so far, a very good mystery which I’ll tell you about soon, but other than that I can’t seem to finish any books and what’s worse I think I’m coming up to my first DNF book of the year.

Has anyone read Sister Pelagia and the Red Cockrel by Boris Akunin? I am about 24 pages into it and am just not really interested. I usually have a 30-40 page rule you know. I wanted to read more because this is a selection for my mystery book group but right now I just want a juicy story I can sink into. The kind where you read and read and read and you don’t want to stop or can’t stop.

I still have a couple of other books going on but they aren’t really calling my name either. Hmm, I think I need to change direction with my reading for tonight and pick up something totally different. I’ll let you know what I end up doing but in the meantime, how about you. Have you had any DNF books already this year?

I read for many reasons and yes, sometimes it’s for a bit of escapism. I usually turn to fiction (mysteries, in particular) but today I actually had to put my book away and go read something totally different.

I’m very close to finishing After The Quake by Haruki Murakami but after being glued to NPR all day and hearing about the tragedy in Haiti, I feel like this is just too close for me. The book doesn’t necessarily go into details of the devastation of that particular earthquake that hit Japan in 1995 but still it’s in the background and well I just couldn’t read about that today.

Anyway my thoughts for healing go to the people and in case anyone wants more info on how to help, here’s a great link.