Abandoned Book 5: J by Howard Jacobsen

 I had very high hopes for this book.  The snippet had me hooked and seemed to be right in my reading sweet spot.  Check out the blurb...

Set in the future - a world where the past is a dangerous country, not to be talked about or visited - J is a love story of incomparable strangeness, both tender and terrifying.

Two people fall in love, not yet knowing where they have come from or where they are going. Kevern doesn't know why his father always drew two fingers across his lips when he said a world starting w...

The reality was I really did not care about the love story or the characters, and the story of the history that is not talked about did not seem like it would be revealed.  I got about 75% of this book read and finally gave up because I was not having fun. 

Abandoned Book 4: History of the Rain by Niall Williams

I reluctantly gave up on this book.  I got about a quarter of the way through and realized I just needed to give it up.  Up to that point I found I was either falling asleep or catching myself with wandering thoughts.  Both not helpful when trying to get into a book.  But it seemed like it was a book that I would definitely like....A girl who is bed-bound by an illness, looks to find her poet father in the books he left behind.  Should have been a slam dunk, but sadly no.  And what makes me even sadder is seeing how many people love this book.

I can't even say I will give it another try later.