Read With Abandon (Booking Through Thursday)

Happy Booking Through Thursday, everyone!

Today’s suggestion is from Cereal Box Reader:

I would enjoy reading a meme about people’s abandoned books. The books that you start but don’t finish say as much about you as the ones you actually read, sometimes because of the books themselves or because of the circumstances that prevent you from finishing. So . . . what books have you abandoned and why?

I just abandoned a book the other day… Marge Piercy’s Vida. See, I finally got around to watching the last episode of “Mad Men” and was craving a read in the same vein. Vida tells the story of a 60s radical sent underground… not quite the same era as “Mad Men” but I was hoping it would satisfy. Continue reading