It started with high hopes and unrealistic New Year goals. But things aren’t looking great – and although it’s only mid-year, I think it’s time to accept my to-be-read pile, will not-be-read. I blame it on the cat book. “I am a Cat” by Soseki sounded like such a great idea to start off the year. But being written in 1905, at 500 pages, translated from Japanese, AND the cat – the main character by the way – was terribly boring? I wanted to stop less than halfway through. But I persevered because how could I give up on my first book of the year!
Well, I finished that book and it had one of the worst endings I’ve ever read in my lifetime. It is you, cat, that started the downfall of my TBR pile. I hope you’re still stuck in that jar.
Another one in the graveyard is Albert Einstein’s “Theory of Relativity”. This one I couldn’t even finish because I could no longer comprehend the letters (and numbers) on the page. I severely overestimated my intellect and was rightly humbled.
Others on the waiting list for last rites:
“Jane Austen: The Secret Radical”
“Algorithms to Live By”
“Between Two Kingdoms”
“The Labyrinth of Spirits”
“Barchester Towers”
“Night Bus”
“Android Karenina”
“The Cat Who Saved the Library”
Need I go on? Day by day, their potential gets covered in dust. My only hope is that the Cat who saves the library, does so by ridding it of my Soseki failure.
Simply Kayla 
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