Have you ever started a book, and finished it years later?

[Akshi Porwal]

Yes, I started reading Wuthering height 3 years ago and only completed it last month

[Archaeoptery]

Yes. There was been a couple which I done it too. Usually something that would make me put it down for sometime and it long enough for me to forget about it

[Amna Khalid]

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell. This was the book that I started reading but finished it after 2 years I think. Fangirl was the first book that made me regret buying.

[Rachael S 1]

Never! It does not matter how bad a book is, my OCD will not let me put the book down until it is finished. What does tend to happen is that I end up watching more TV because I am not wanting to read the book.

[Areeba M]

I am usually never like this, I can't put a book down once I start.
But somehow I've been stuck with All the Light We cannot Cannot See for about 4 years now. And it's not because I didn't like the book. I actually enjoy reading it. But for some reason whenever I start reading it, I am always interrupted by something or the other going on in life. And when I pick it up again, I don't remember the details. So I have to restart the whole book again. This has happened three times.
I have promised myself that this time I am going to complete it without any breaks.

[Blessing O 2]

No, never. Once I start reading a book, I make sure I complete it.

[Preye I]

No but I have started a series and finished it years later. When I read the first book of the series I had no idea it was a series. I remember finishing it and feeling incomplete because it didn't have a solid ending. It felt like there was more. Years later I was at the library and I saw the same book but this time the second book beside it. All my feelings came rushing back and it made sense. Anyways I re read the first one and read the second one. And it was amazing!

[Leonie Vermaak]

No not ever. I just can't do that. I would literally frustrate me so much. Once I'm in the story and live with the characters I just have to see how it ends

[Leonie Vermaak]

No not ever. I just can't do that. I would literally frustrate me so much. Once I'm in the story and live with the characters I just have to see how it ends.

[DATo]

Long ago I started to read The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens and gave up on it early on. I just couldn't get into it. I tried rereading it about five years later and absolutely loved it. I strongly believe there is a right time in your life to read a specific book.

[ericaball]

Yes - The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde. I knew I would love it, but for some reason couldn't make any progress on it for years. I ended up picking it up on a visit to family in England! Which was really the perfect place to read it. It's like it was meant to be....

[ericaball]

Yes, I started reading Wuthering height 3 years ago and only completed it last month

Wuthering Heights is definitely a slog if you're not in the right frame of mind for it. Congrats on getting through it!

[ericaball]

No but I have started a series and finished it years later. When I read the first book of the series I had no idea it was a series. I remember finishing it and feeling incomplete because it didn't have a solid ending. It felt like there was more. Years later I was at the library and I saw the same book but this time the second book beside it. All my feelings came rushing back and it made sense. Anyways I re read the first one and read the second one. And it was amazing!

Oh, that's the best feeling when you realize there's more of a story you love!! Especially when the first left you feeling unfulfilled!

[ericaball]

I know I'll lose a LOT of geek cred for this one, which is the preferred currency in my land, but I'd have to say the Lord of the Rings books. I don't know what it is... I loved The Hobbit, but I've tried to read The Fellowship of the Ring a half dozen times or so, and just get hung up on the long intro. While this doesn't completely belong here, since I haven't actually finished it even now, I definitely attempted to read it years later (and then years later after that, and after that...).

Same here, I started reading Fellowship for the third time, around 5 years ago and I'm about halfway through ... I haven't given up on it yet, I'm sure I'll get to the end one day!

I think a lot of us geeks really have mixed feelings about LOTR. It means a log to us, but definitely takes a lot to make it through. For me, I tend to think about all the new stuff that's been inspired by LOTR and built on the themes, and then it's hard not to get distracted by that.

[sayoniwrites]

Sort of. I started Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. I started it when I was very young and couldn't keep up with it. Then I gave up. It felt like an unclimbable mountain. But recently I gave up doubting myself and picked up the book. I easily finished it to my surprise.