Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.
All I know is that you can get very little from a book that is making you weep with the effort of reading it. You won’t remember it, and you’ll learn nothing from it, and you’ll be less likely to choose a book over Big Brother next time you have a choice.
I have no memory for what happens in what books. I don't know when I might remember a scene, but beats me what book it's in because there are 14 of them now.
You want people to be eager for your book; the downside is when the people forget the series even exists.
A blurb might bring a reader to a book, but then the book itself has to do the rest of the work.
Young adults are honest readers. They won't stay with a book unless they have a reason, so it has to move along.
I leaf through books, I do not study them. What I retain of them is something I no longer recognize as anyone else's.
I don't reread my books.
I love to reread, even more than I like to read, so keeping a hold of books that I adore is very important, although they flee from me - they are always fleeing.
