Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading

 Book 45 of my 2026 Reading Challenge

read from March 28 - April 12

Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading:

Finding and Losing Myself in Books

by Maureen Corrigan

1 star

The author is a professional book reviewer and she gave some examples of lines people could use in a negative review.  Here's my contribution - the book has the great title of "Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading" but after finishing the book I feel a more accurate title would be "Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading [Literally Anything but This Book]".

That's glib and snarky so I won't pile on.  But I didn't enjoy this book at all.  I'm not a professional book reviewer and I don't generally analyze the books I read so I don't have thought-out reasons why.  I was bored.

The bright side: I bought this book for .50 at a book sale to give to my husband for my Christmas box of books.  I can sell this book to Thriftbooks for .78, making a small profit (and hopefully getting this book into the hands of someone who will enjoy it more).

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Ways This Book Met my 2026 Reading Goals:

- 45th book read in 2026 (my goal is 100)

- A book I received for Christmas 2025 (my goal is to read all my Christmas 2025 books by the end of 2026)

- A book I own that is leaving my house for a new reader to find (my goal is to declutter and make progress on whittling down my shelves/boxes of books in my house)