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- Each Tuesday, Jana assigns a new topic. Create your own Top Ten list that fits that topic – putting your unique spin on it if you want.
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- Or if you don’t have a blog, just post your answers as a comment.
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic is Books I Did Not Finish. I rarely give up on books. I’d like to think it’s because I’m pretty good at picking books I’ll enjoy. On the other hand, it could be sheer bloodymindness. Whatever the circumstances, I don’t review (or even talk about) a book I didn’t finish because, after all, an author laboured long and hard over it and possibly it just wasn’t the right book for me or they’re still learning their craft.
Inspired by last week’s topic, Books On My Spring 2025 To-Read List, I decided to look back at my Winter 2024/2025 To-Read List to see how well I stuck to it. Links from each title will take you to my review because – spoiler alert! – I read them all.
- Another Man in the Street by Caryl Phillips
- Homeseeking by Karissa Chen
- The Bookseller (DS Cross #7) by Tim Sullivan
- The House with Nine Locks by Philip Gray
- The Endeavour of Elsie Mackay by Flora Johnston
- A Cold Wind from Moscow by Rory Clements
- The Ghosts of Rome by Joseph O’Connor
- The Café with No Name by Robert Seethaler, trans. by Katy Derbyshire
- Mrs Hudson and the Capricorn Incident by Martin Davies
- The Language of Remembering by Patrick Holloway
What Cathy Read Next... 
I also don’t like to give up on books. For me, it’s sheer bloody-mindedness!! 🤭
Here’s my list for this week (I also went in a different direction): https://damppebbles.com/2025/03/25/toptentuesday-25th-march-2025/
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Well, since you read a lot of crime ‘sheer bloody-mindedness’ seems appropriate! Seems as if you and your mum have similar taste in books.
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Good job!
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Yay for you! I read 2, DNF 2, and started another from my winter TBR. Maybe I’ll get the chance to finish one more before the month is over.
Pam @ Read! Bake! Create!
https://readbakecreate.com/books-i-dnfed-in-2024/
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Great work reading all that you listed in your TBR post! I liked Ghosts or Rome but haven’t read any of the others. Enjoy your week.
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It probably helps I like making lists and having a reading schedule. I’m not really a ‘mood reader’.
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That would help! Though I did pretty well with my 2024 lists and I am all mood reader, though I do try really hard with the various Reading Ireland etc events that I look forward to. I may change the book I read but I try to do them.
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Good luck, Cathy!💖📚
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Great job with your TBR! I never look back at mine because I know I’m terrible at sticking to them.
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I was pleasantly surprised but I also know a “fixed” reading list doesn’t suit everyone. I need it to keep on top of ARCs.
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