DNF | The BiblioSanctum

DNF Round-Up

Posted on October 30, 2025 14 Comments

Hopefully the last DNF roundup of the year, but based on how crappy this fall has been so far, maybe we’ll get one more? In my personal life, it’s been trying times since the season started, and my October took one look at the dumpster fire that was my September and said, “hold my beer.” […]

DNF Round-Up

Posted on July 25, 2025 13 Comments

Apparently, my last DNF Round-Up post was all the way back in January, and I was really hoping I wouldn’t need to write another one this year. But then summer hit. Up until a couple of months ago, things were actually going pretty well on the reading front, but there’s just something about the season […]

The DNF Round-Up

Posted on January 26, 2025 13 Comments

As all readers know, sometimes a book just doesn’t click. Maybe it’s just not what you expected—or worse, maybe it’s just not working for you at all. Granted, it doesn’t happen to me too often, but when it does, that’s when DNF reviews come in. I’ve found that it greatly helps me process my reading […]

2024 DNFs: Part 4

Posted on October 10, 2024 9 Comments

The summer slump may be over, but its end did come with a few more abandoned books for the DNF pile. Hopefully I can make it to the end of the year without making another one of these posts. Once more, the usual caveat: just because I DNFed a book doesn’t mean it was bad, […]

Summer of DNF

Posted on August 24, 2024 12 Comments

Sorry for the slow month. There has been a lot of traveling for me this summer and I’m back from what is probably (hopefully) my last road trip before the fall season sets in, because I am feeling absolutely beat! I can’t believe I’m about to type these words but I am actually looking forward […]

2024 DNFs: Part 2

Posted on May 8, 2024 24 Comments

This year I made the resolution to stop treating DNF like a bad word, setting aside books just aren’t grabbing me because life is too short and the TBR is too long. Now that the first quarter of the year is behind us, I have another handful of books that I had decided to set […]

2024 DNFs: Part 1

Posted on March 13, 2024 19 Comments

This year I made the resolution to stop treating DNF like a bad word, setting aside books just aren’t grabbing me because life is too short and the TBR is too long. And well, I’ve never been one to do anything halfway. We’re only into March and I already have a handful of abandoned books. […]

2023 DNFs

Posted on December 16, 2023 16 Comments

So, in 2023, I started doing a thing. After more than ten years of reading every book I pick up from cover to cover, I finally came to my senses and started listening to the little voice inside my head that says life is too short to be forcing myself to finish books that I’m […]