Anne Wallace: Extract Two

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I don’t, now, finish books if I’m not enjoying them. I used to – I would plough through until the bitter end. But now I think, ‘No. At my stage in life, all these books I want to read …’ I get to a certain stage, usually about a third of the way through, and if it hasn’t grabbed me by then …

Yes.

… and I don’t care about the characters …

Yes.

Because if I don’t think, I want to know what happens to these people, be it fiction, crime, or whatever, I think then, ‘No, junk it. It hasn’t grabbed me.’