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The show closed last night. The kids were all amazing and we had a lot of fun backstage. It was a full week of long nights and lots of bad meals (eating on the go, etc.). Today is my first day back without rehearsal or running around so I am looking forward to actually cooking a meal tonight and not having to order one that has a number assigned to it.

Now that things are slowing down, I intend to catch-up on all my reading. Just about done with my book club’s pick for July. I’m also trying to figure out the itinerary for our vacation. We will be visiting Colorado (Boulder and Denver) and other than visiting the Tattered Cover Bookstore, I have nothing else planned! I better get on that too.

No rehearsals or scouts or PTO meetings. Whatever will I do with myself? Oh yeah.. still have to work. Wishful thinking.

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Giving Up On A Book

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Years ago one of the members in my book group mentioned an article that she had read about “divorcing a book”. If you don’t like it after 50 or so pages, you give up on it. Prior to that conversation, I had never done that before.. not without a lot of guilt. Well today I saw a similar post over at Reading Group Guides. Click here for the Reading Group Guides post and click here for the NY Times Divorce That Book article.

I have to say that over the years I have divorced many a book. I’ll admit it, I still feel a little guilty for doing it but with the amount of time I have to read, I start to resent the book if it is not worthy of my attention. Here are some books that I divorced over the years.

Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
*I know it’s a classic, but I would rather stick a pin in my eye than try this one again.

The English Patient, by Michael Ondaatje
*I simply did not care about these people.. did not care for the movie either.

The Tortilla Curtain, by T. Coraghessan Boyle
*I gave this one more than one chance..even tried it as an audio book and it pained me physically to read it or listen to it. I don’t really know why.. seemed to be well written but the story did not interest me.

A Million Little Pieces, by James Frey
*After two chapters of this, I felt as if “I” needed drugs just to get through it. This was before the big Oprah scandle too.

What books have you divorced?