Disappointment In The Reading Department

I've finally updated my reading list on the left hand side of the blog - I'm now reading my R book and I'm really hoping its better than the last three books I've read. Its been a real slog to get through O-Q, which is always disappointing. In fact, and I'm ashamed to admit this because I think I'm breaking some self-imposed rules here, I didn't even finish One Hundred Years Of Solitude. I only made it two thirds of the way through. I know, I know, its a classic and the author is legendary, but I just found it so....boring. Sorry to anyone who loves it. I really had hoped I would grow to like it, but I just found it was getting to be a chore to pick it up and I was starting to skip lines, so I realised I had to stop. Reading should never be a chore.

I then turned to Prep, which is a book about a fictional girl's experiences as a scholarship student at a private school in the US. It was a fast read, but once I'd finished it I was left feeling grumpy and depressed, because the character within the novel is always grumpy and depressed.

Q was Queen of The Tambourines, which was about a woman slowly going crazy in her flat in London, as revealed through letters to an imaginary neighbour. Yeah, that really perked me right up.

But now I've turned to the correspondents of Gourmet Magazine, writing about the joys of living and eating in Paris. I'm really hoping this collection of essays brings me back to my love of reading. There's nothing worse than being in a reading slump.

I'm still trying to decide what to do about the letter O, because I feel like I was cheating by not finishing it, but I do have a plan...Margaret Atwood has written a sequel to Oryx and Crake, which I read a while ago, called The Year Of The Flood, so I'm thinking I could make that my Y book. But since its a sequel, I think I should go back and re-familiarise myself with Oryx and Crake. So although its a book I've already read, I think that combined with reading the majority of One Hundred Years Of Solitude, I somehow balance things out again in the O department. Does that still seem like cheating or is that fair?