Here’s this week’s question from Booking Through Thursday.

Suggested by JM:

“Life is too short to read bad books.” I’d always heard that, but I still read books through until the end no matter how bad they were because I had this sense of obligation.
That is, until this week when I tried (really tried) to read a book that is utterly boring and unrealistic. I had to stop reading.
Do you read everything all the way through or do you feel life really is too short to read bad books?

I try to only buy books that I think I’ll enjoy, so there are very few books that I actually own that I couldn’t read through to the end.

However, if it’s a book that I’ve borrowed from the library and I find I’m not enjoying it, I would just stop reading. I don’t want to waste time reading a book that doesn’t interest me when there are so many other books I could be reading instead – though if I get halfway through the book before I lose interest I might just skim the last few chapters to find out how it ends.

This week’s question from Booking Through Thursday is:

Which do you prefer? Biographies written about someone? Or Autobiographies written by the actual person (and/or ghost-writer)?

This is quite a difficult question to answer. I usually only read fiction and don’t read either biographies or autobiographies very often (although as it happens I’m reading one at the moment!) but I don’t really have any preference for one or the other. The most important thing to me would be to get an honest and unbiased account of the person’s life – and of course, for the book to be well written and interesting.