I like about children's books is that they rarely go on the half-read pile. Increasingly I am reading my "adult" books half-way through and then stopping. I don't know if this says more about me or the book. I'm usually dogged in my determination to finish a book, even if I hate it. I want to say I made it to the end, that I got my moneys worth. But lately, not so much. Am I tired, easily distracted, bored, incapable of protracted thought other than, "did I feed the dog this morning?"
I'm hoping it's just a developmental cycle of my adulthood, because I'm starting to feel a little guilty. On the other hand, I think I have finished almost every picture book I've ever picked up. Granted, there were a few I wanted to burn by the end, and maybe they never got read again, but at least I finished them. There's some satisfaction in that. Maybe I should just switch entirely over to picture books? Naw...
