A Duty Read?

Knowing you have something 

good to read before bed

is among the most 

pleasurable of sensations.

Vladimir Nabokov

And that's what I think most evenings, and when its a really good book I will read till quite late, or even early morning.

However this one ...

...is giving me mixed feelings. I bought it for Dh for an extra Christmas present and he's read it and said he enjoyed it. So I'm reading it now and I'm struggling with it. It was advertised as a book like those of Chris Hammer's, who we've both read. Hammer's first book had a shocking start where the town's priest, standing on the church steps,  opens fire and shoots five men before turning the gun in himself. So I was expecting something similar. I'm nearly half way through and no 'fireworks!' so far. So a bit disappointing but I'll carry on because I feel a bit guilty giving Dh a bit of a dud!

But my library books look good. A Nora Roberts, and one by a new to me author Liz Nugent.. so I shall sit one afternoon this weekend and read Red Dirt Road, till I finish it, Dh says it speeds up a bit after you get past the middle. I do hope so, as at this moment in time its not thrilling me. 

Have you ever read a book out of a feeling of duty, perhaps a Book Group choice?

Chrisxx