The DF Stack

The sad truth of being an avid reader, is that there are a lot of books out there (and just in the young adult section alone), and many more are published every day. While I would love to take the time and read every single book in the YA genre, there just isn't enough time in my life for such a feat. I didn't want to become one of those people who made a list like this, but sometimes it just has to happen. You are looking at my DFL (didn't finish) stack of books that just didn't quite work for me for various reasons that I'll mention. I've always had a strict two-episode rule with TV shows and now I'm really starting to realize that I may need to do something along those lines for books (yikes! I don't wanna). Hopefully this list doesn't get out of control because I like finishing my books, awful or not, and I'm hoping I can come back to this stack in the future and maybe retry some of these books. As always, everything is in alphabetical order, and this time it's by title.

• The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth 
• Honestly, I was super excited about this book, and quite upset that I couldn't get through it. The chapters were way, way, WAY too long and the story really kind of dragged along. Epic long chapters are one of my biggest pet peeves with YA, and this was just ridiculous! I tried really hard to get through this book (and multiple times, too), but I found myself reading the same sentence ten times over so I'm kicking it to the curb.
• Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan
• Going into this book, I had no idea how odd the narration was going to be. I knew it was going to be a little weird because of the premise, but I did not realize everything was going to be narrated by the generation of gay men whom died of AIDS. I just could not get into it. A lot of the narration referred to the reader with the pronoun "you", which would have totally been fine if not a little "breaking-the-fourth-wall". The real problem was that I felt like I needed to be a gay boy or man to read the book and I felt like a fraud because I'm not. Small book, great premise, weird reason, but here it is.