giving up is hard to do

book: the stone virgins
author: yvonne vera
method: purchase (for school)
completion date: abandoned 07/06/10

i almost never give up books without the intention of finishing them but it's happened. i hated this book. it was sooooo frustratingly wordy, and so descriptive that i didn't have a clue what the hell was going on. it drove me nuts. i think that the girls sister was murdered and the murderer cut out her tongue but i have no idea. at 89 pages i only had a loose idea of what was happening, then i would totally forget. it felt like the author got so caught up in her descriptions, so absorbed in her metaphors (which were beautiful) she forgot what she was describing. vera feels like a poet that wrote a full length novel. her poetry is wonderful. she has amazing descriptions and is so poetic but as i said before she's too poetic. i barely knew what the sisters names were and it took me a few pages to figure that one of them had died.
i really hate giving up books, especially when they're so short but i just couldn't finish this one. now i feel like a slacker but i'll get over it.
xo -ellebee