I Am Lexie now has a booklog.

I’ve been reading a lot lately, and I’ve also realized that I’ve been buying a lot of new books. So I’ve decided to put up a booklog here in the site. At first, I thought of starting a booklog in preparation for those 20+ books in 12 months memes. In the end, I decided against it, since I don’t want to be pressured into reading books for the sake of accomplishing a specific number of reads.

Last night, I decided to try buying online from National Bookstore, using a credit card. I ordered Atonement by Ian McEwan, and The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. I’m currently waiting for the order to be approved and shipped out. Thankfully, I haven’t seen the film adaptations for these novels, so I still don’t know what to expect. I’ve downloaded torrents of the films, so I’ll see the movies after I read the books.

This week’s question from Booking Through Thursday:

“Life is too short to read bad books.” I’d always heard that, but I still read books through until the end no matter how bad they were because I had this sense of obligation.

That is, until this week when I tried (really tried) to read a book that is utterly boring and unrealistic. I had to stop reading.

Do you read everything all the way through or do you feel life really is too short to read bad books?

It really depends on how bad the book is. Seriously, there are books that are so bad, you just have to put them down after the first chapter, but there are still some bad books that I can stomach. There are moments when I find a book boring, but I still feel a twinge of curiosity – like I want to find out what happens in the end, no matter how badly written it is. That’s when I end up finishing a bad book – but not without skipping a few chapters. But I guess that doesn’t really qualify as reading all the way through.