Promises

I've been meaning to get some reviews up and just can't seem to find the motivation. So, I thought that I'd just put it out there: I want to have reviewed The Bishop's Keep, The Secret History, and the Secret Life of Bees by Sunday. They're all challenge reads, and I feel like they deserve some air time. :)

In the meantime, I think I'm tiring of challenges. They used to be a fun way to direct my reading, but right now with all of my new bookmooch acquisitions, I don't like feeling so hemmed in! Oh well-it's my own fault. :D And really, I do enjoy them. I think it's more that none of my reads are really grabbing me. An Instance of the Fingerpost, while I'm sure it's quite historically correct, has the most repulsive narrators ever. The first one calmly talked about vivisection and killing animals. The second one raped a girl. I can only imagine what the third and fourth are going to do to piss me off. It makes it rather difficult to read; I'm about a third of the way through it, but it's an effort to pick it up.

I'm in that mode where I pick up a book, read for a couple hours, and then don't want to go back to it. Most of the books I'm reading are good, but they're just not grabbing me. *sigh* I don't know what to do to get out of the reading doldrums either. Any suggestions?