The Oh-So-Sad DNF Collection, Vol. 1

I don't like to DNF but I also don't like the idea of struggling through a book that doesn't get along with me. Here is a little collection of books I had to give up on because I am a quitter and I have entirely too many books in my tbr pile.


Unbury Carol by Josh Malerman

I gave it my best try and read a third before throwing in the towel. This book was just so incredibly not for me. I like weird and dark little stories but this tale about a woman afflicted by a condition where she falls into a death-like state and the dastardly bastard of a man she trusted, who naturally is doing her all kinds of wrong, isn't working for me in any way. The characters are not engaging me and the plot is not interesting to me so I'm calling it quits and starting something else.



Tasty Treats for Demanding Dogs by Gregg R. Gillespie

I made it to the 25% mark, skimming all the way. I never read all the way through cookbooks but already I've noticed something scary going on here with several of the recipes. If you own this book please be careful before attempting the recipes because this book will lead you astray. I don't get what this author is trying to accomplish. He has a written an informative introduction outlining dangerous and potentially hazardous foods including garlic and onions and yet (pardon me while I scream) he then includes some of them in his recipes!!! WTF? Does he purposely want you to harm your pet? Does he harbor a secret hate for dogs? Or did he just collect a bunch of recipes from the internets, slap 'em together in a book and call it a day without double checking the ingredients? I just don't get it and now I don't trust anything he's written here.

FWIW, I did make the oatmeal with peanut butter cookies and my doggies love them.

They were so much cheaper to make than buying them. I think I'll copy that recipe and a couple others with benign ingredients and then I'm getting this book out of my house before my kids decide to bake some unsafe treats. Having spent over $1500 to save one of my doggies a few years back after he ate something toxic none of us are up for another frightening trip to the ER Vet! Beware . . .


A Night At The Beach by Malcolm Bryant

My KindleApp is overstuffed with terrible things. I got this book for free somewhere but, let me tell you, it was not worth the $0.00 I paid for it. It featured a so-called naive protagonist who falls into bed with two interchangeable men he meets on a beach getaway. They have lots of boring sex within hearing distance of his family (ick! why?! that's not sexy, that's not sexy AT ALL) and there are many, many words and so much repetitive speak that I couldn't get past the first few chapters. Writers, do you want to know how to make sex boring? Read this book! It also includes a whole bunch of other little stories that feature the same sort of writing to add to the page count. I think they call that book-stuffing and I really hate it when they do that. Delete! Delete! Delete! Off the Ipad you go.