When Your TBR Is LOL, Try DNF
Who Says You Have to Finish Every Book You Start?
In Alan Bennett’s novella The Uncommon Reader, a fictional Queen Elizabeth borrows a difficult book from a mobile library and grinds out the pages before returning it.
“How did you find it, ma’am?” asks the librarian, who admits trying and abandoning the book.
“A little dry,” says the queen. But, she adds, “once I start…
