What the title says! What is your silliest reason for dnfing a book?

I'll start - I got about 60% of the way into David Copperfield before I realized he was never going to become a magician because it's a freaking Dickens book of course the magician is unrelated. Felt so dumb and was so disappointed that I rage quit. 🤦‍♀️ 🎩🪄 A decade or more later, picked up Demon Copperhead and was struggling a bit. Then I saw that it was a retelling of David Copperfield and I was like - it's fate. It is only appropriate that I dnf this as well. 🐍 🫠

How bout y'all?

Ive had a tumultuous journey with reading over the years, from loving it as a kid/tween to not picking up a single book from 15 through to 20. I'm now much happier with my little book routine :)

As the title suggests, I think the fact that I'm autistic impacts my enjoyment (for better or worse) of books in a huge way. For instance,

Pattern Recognition

I am so bad for noticing when an author uses the same phrase, word or even sentence structure repeatedly, and once I start noticing, I can't stop. Sometimes that means my enjoyment of the book is waaaay lower, as I become very critical of the writing.

But also....

Joy and stimming

I know this might be weird to say, but I feel I get a little extra joy out of a good book? Getting to a good metaphor, or action scene or big twist, and having it be so great that my reaction becomes physical and i start to stim. That's the good shit right there.

So, if you are also neurodivergent, do you feel that impacts your reading journey?

So I’m looking to do the Alphabet Challenge next year, and I’m struggling to find/think of any books that start with X and Z. Does anyone have any recommendations? I’d like to try to avoid books that start “A” or “The,” but that might be difficult with these two letters 😭

Thanks in advance!

Hi,

haven't found this in the searches, so hope this isn't a duplicate. Sorry if it is.

When using the internet on a computer, I can usually submit posts, comments etc by holding ctrl and hitting the enter-button on my keyboard.

On pagebound, I have to find the submit-button and click it with the mouse.

So, this is the tiniest of feature requests: Would it be possible to get the ctrl + enter to submit on pagebound as well?