nomadreader

I don't often abandon books or movies. There are certainly times I start skimming pages or skipping sections of books, but I usually care enough to at least know what happens. I usually watch a movie all the way through, even if I start doing something else and leave it on in the background. This week, I encountered a book I could not get into at all. A Golden Web by Babara Quick comes out today, and I received an ARC through Traveling ARC Tours .  Here's the publisher's description: "Alessandra is desperate to escape. Desperate to escape her stepmother, who's locked her away for a year; to escape the cloister that awaits her and the marriage plans that have been made for her; to escape the expectations that limit her and every other girl in fourteenth-century Italy. There's no tolerance in her quiet village for Alessandra and her keen intelligence and unconventional ideas. In defiant pursuit of her dreams, Alessandra undertakes an audacious quest, he...