Is It Just Me?
Of course it is. Although reading (definitely more so nowadays) can be social it is also very personal. The kinds of subject matter/genre which appeals to one may not resonate with another. One might like to read about trains because their grandfather was an old timey conductor on the Erie Lackawanna railway. One might shy away from novels with divorce as a running theme for reasons of their own. One might like road trip novels. It can be exciting to go where it’s scary or to places we’ve simply never been, or probably never will be, but it’s also okay to not go there. Whatever floats your boat. Recreational reading is something no one can force upon you. No one can tell you what you like or don’t like. Reading is all you. That’s great, isn’t it? All of that said goes to justify my decision to put down The Wedding People for now. From the comments I’ve read about this book it seems like I’m in a very small minority of readers for which this book did not hit the mark. It just was n...