Why Do Books Go Unread?

 

 

You ever find that you have a stack of books that you can’t seem to get to, but you simply can’t get yourself to sell, donate, or lend?

 

Sure, you do. Any good reader piles up books that they intend to get to, but never do. Perhaps you got them for free – a gift, a give-away, or someone lent it out and you never remembered to return it. Maybe you bought them from a discounted bookstore or they were on sale. Maybe you acquired them form a used bookstore. Likely, you had good intentions. Something interested you in them. Maybe you got a recomme3ndation, saw3 a good book review, or fell for an advertisement. Perhaps it was an interview you spotted with the author or something controversial drew you to it. Maybe you just liked the cover and title or it’s by an author that you have read.

 

I can go on. There’s lots of reasons why you have the books that you have. The question is: Why do they go unread – and what will you do with them?

 

Some of these books will:

 

·         Never get read by you and will just rot on a bookshelf or nightstand, taunting you with feelings of obligation to read them and guilt for letting them go unread by anyone.

 

·         Get picked up from time-to-time, and you will scrutinize them again to reaffirm that you want them and instead to read them. Perhaps you will rearrange their order by size, intent to read, or some other metric. Maybe you will even wipe the dust off of them.

 

·         Simply become decorations, littering coffee tables for guests to flip through or they will get displayed prominently as if you have read them already.

 

·         Get traded for other books with friends and family that also will go unread.

 

Some people buy books out of obligation, beliefs, or desires. They want to support a cause, believe in the book’s idea, or want to keep an indie bookstore open. Reading the book is secondary.

 

Authors try so hard to get their books sold. Even then, upon a sale, there is no guarantee someone will actually read it cover-to-cover or if they will share it with others. Readers take on more than they can d\chew. They mean well. They just have so many interests, never enough time. But readers always read – they just switch their priorities of order of books to be read.

 

Don’t let this make you gun-shy about acquiring more books. The more the merrier. But do try to find time to read them or make a serious effort to share them with others (who probably, too, won’t get to them).

 

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Why Do We Read Books?

 

 

To the millions of book readers in America, the answer is obvious yet hard to put into words. We just love to read books and that’s that. But, some read books because they were assigned them. Others read out of guilt or fear. Some read to achieve a specific goal. Others come upon a book accidentally or as a gift. We read for all kinds of reasons, from desire and fantasy to a need to know. Most book readers find the whole process a pleasure, one that’s rewarding and invigorating. 

 

A new book, Why We Read: On Bookworms, Librarians, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out by Shannon Reed, takes a poignant and insightful look at why we read books and it serves as a celebration of reading books.

 

The author encourages us to read or re-read books that were assigned to us years ago in school, you know, the ones you relied on Monarch Notes, Cliff Notes, Spark Notes, or some bullshit book-summary site to get through the class. Now you can read them with life experiences and a new perspective. Even if you actually read them back then -- which many of you may not have -- you likely didn’t get the books full meaning without the lived perspective that you now hold. 

 

The authors note that we read, at times, to learn about -- and from-- the past. She notes we read to feel nostalgic and to take us to another time period, as reflected by books written in another era. We step into a time machine when we read old classics. 

 

Mature readers know that a book is to be savored, not raced through, though many readers enjoy devouring a book or even a series, the way we binge-watch on Netflix. 

 

Reading, it is pointed out by Reed, is done to feel less alone. We are comforted by another voice, even if it is our own in our head as we read from the vantage point of another. With a good book, I can travel on a train or bus, I can sit by the pool on vacation, or I can cozy up to a meal. 

 

Though sticking with a particular genre or author can be enjoyable and comforting, we should also seek to challenge ourselves by exposing our minds to other genres and writers. It can be fun. It can shock us.  It could even help you see things differently and shake up your perspective. 

 

Reading gives us a sense of morality and standards. 

 

Authors tell us how the world was, is, and should be. Whether fiction, poetry, non-fiction, a children’s book, essays, short stories or a graphic novel, readers are always shown some kind of way to live under some type of circumstances. 

 

Sometimes we read for the purpose of wanting to feel what we can’t right now, from a good cry, to a passionate romance, to a normal family. Books can compensate, to a degree, from where our lives fall short of the ideal. 

 

Books also introduce the life we can’t live or would never choose to. Want to be in the world of war heroes, space, travelers, time travelers, serial killers, or vampires? Read a novel. Escape. Don’t be yourself. It’s risk-and cost-free. 

 

Many of us read to feel inspiration and motivation, from how-to, self-help books, to beautiful novels that make us feel empowered and help us see ourselves with confidence, strength, and vigor. 

 

We are what we read, drawn to things that support who we want to be or towards safely seeing what our opposite lives could be. And we become what we read, meaning our lives are enriched by the experiences, fantasies, ideas, questions, observations, and experiences of others. Books are great equalizers.  

 

I read because my dad read a lot and valued it. So does my sister, my wife, and daughter. 

 

I read because books can reveal truths, hopes, and insights into how to best live life, or to at least take joy in the lives I shall never live due to time, circumstance, and conflicts.  

 

I read to evolve, to grow inwardly, and to feel beyond whatever my experiences have afforded me. 

 

I read because words are an art form and books arrange words like a puzzle. When placed in the right order, these words can reveal a masterpiece. 

 

I read because books make me smart, wealthy, horny, curious, motivated, and laugh. 

 

I read to learn new words. 

 

I read to feel connected to history and to humanity. 

 

I read, therefore I am.

 

 

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Interview With Author Carolyn Akinyemi

 

 

 

 

 

1. What inspired you to write this book?

After years of infertility, I gave birth to 4 children in less than 5 years and ALL of then developed chronic Eczema. So, my motherhood experience was quite a challenge as I had 4 lots of emollients, steroids, wet wraps and allergic negotiations to deal with. Despite doing everything I was told to do by our primary care physicians, including breastfeeding each of my children for 12 months, the Eczema kept spreading. I was told it was just one of those things, no one knows why eczema occurs and we obviously had an Atopic gene in our family. I was told it was likely that the allergies and eczema would continue to get worse as the Allergic march ensued. 

 

Desperate to help my children find healing, I started my own research, looking at Eczema causes and treatments from any medical perspective I could find and I began to map the inner workings of eczema, finding evidenced based ways to treat it from the inside. Treating roots rather than fruits so to speak. I developed a systematic approach to healing Eczema naturally by addressing 8 different medical areas and I used it protocol to switch off the Eczema inside all my children. When i saw how effective it was I started to help others, and it began to spread even more to other eczema sufferers.

 

2. What exactly is it about and who is it written for?

The book is called Eczema Decoded and is a systematic approach to healing Eczema by discovering what's gone wrong inside your body and how you can correct it to turn the Eczema switch back off again. Things always happen for a reason. Disease is no different. This book is NOT written for people who are happy to keep going with the status quo and following what they are told by mainstream sources. It is for those who know deep down there must be more that they haven't been told. Its for those who are willing to look and think outside the box and to take the action steps necessary to get real results.

 

3. What do you hope readers will get out of reading your book?

My desire is for others to find healing from chronic Eczema just as my children did. But not only that, it's also that by actioning the teaching in this book, they will turn down the inflammation in their bodies and consequently save themselves from the many auto-immune diseases that Eczema sufferers have a much greater risk of developing. 

 

4. How did you decide on your book’s title and cover design?

I worked very hard to break down the scientific documents and write the information in easily understandable format for those who need the knowledge but do not possess medical degrees. To me it feels like a work of decoding; to decode eczema and make it easier for sufferers to understand why they got it and what they need to to about. Then I worked with a professional designer to create an cover that showed the idea of broken skin being healed without showing pictures of actual raw skin. I really like the cover. 

 

5. What advice or words of wisdom do you have for fellow writers – other than run!?

I love writing so I wouldn't tell anyone to run from it. Writing is therapeutic and healing and it's an amazing way to share your knowledge with others who need it. The advice I'd genuinely give to other authors is that your book is not going to sell itself. If you want it to sell, the hardest work happens after it's published as you need to get eyes on your book in order to sell it! 

 

6. What trends in the book world do you see -- and where do you think the book publishing industry is heading? 

Although there has been a shift towards e-books over the years, there are many die-hard traditional book fans (I am one of them) who just love the feel of holding physical books and turning the pages. There is a sense of achievement reaching the final page that still gives me a dopamine hit of having successfully acheived a goal. This is why I don't think physical books will ever lose their appeal. The trend I do see however is audio books making great strides. In our very busy world we are often multi-tasking and listening to podcasts and YouTube videos while doing other things such as cooking or driving. The audio book option is a great parallel market to meet this demand for audio resources and it's definately something I'm looking at doing for Eczema Decoded. My only challenge with that is that I can't portray the visuals in an audio book. 

 

7. Were there experiences in your personal life or career that came in handy when writing this book? 

Oh many! I find it very helpful to share a story relating to things people do understand and then bounce off that story to help explain the medical concepts that may have been challenging to understand without it. I do this at the start of every chapter; share a personal story and use that to teach the next concept about Eczema that needs to be understood. 

 

In addition to the stories, I think my training as a British Sign Language interpreting helped me with my writing because interpreting is also like decoding. It is taking information that is unintelligible in one form and changing it into another form that is understandable, whilst still keeping the intention of the information in the source language. This is similar to my intention with Eczema Decoded. So, I do think my training and experience in interpreting sign language benefitting my writing.

 

8. How would you describe your writing style? Which writers or books is your writing similar to?

I read a lot of books! That's a difficult question for me to answer. Hmm... I think those with a similar writing style from the point of view of language style, probably Sayer Ji, and T. Colin Campbell who wrote two of my favourite books Regenerate and The China Study. My style is more like I'm having a conversation with you. I wanted the reader to feel like I was in the room with them talking and walking them through the teaching. 

 

9. What challenges did you overcome in the writing of this book?

 

The biggest challenge for me was finding a decent editor and Cover Designer. Now I found a great guy on Fiverr and I go back to him for all my design work. I don't really have challenges with the writing as I love writing. Some people find it challenging being disciplined to regularly make time but for me it's more that I can get lost in writing and forget I have other responsibilities to take care of! 

 

10. If people can buy or read one book this week or month, why should it be yours?

If someone has suffered from chronic Eczema for any length of time and is completely fed up going round in circles, doing what they've been told to do and getting nowhere, then they need to stop and rethink what they are doing. You don't get results by doing more of what isn't working. You get results by asking why this happening in the first place, finding out what's gone wrong and taking action to fix it. This is what Eczema Decoded does. It takes your hand and walks you on a journey of discovery to help you find out why you got eczema, how you got trapped in it, and what you need to do to get out of it. It helps you treat the roots of the disease, not just repeatedly fighting the fruits. It's a completely different approach to what we are told by our doctors and consultants and it puts the power back into the hands of the Eczema sufferer, empowering them to know what actions they need to take and why. It's also not just opinion or what worked for me that might not work for you. Everything I've taught is backed by research so the readers can trust that there is scientific basis for everything I share. 

 

For more information, please see: https://eczemaacademy.com

 

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Brian Feinblum should be followed on www.linkedin.com/in/brianfeinblum. This is copyrighted by BookMarketingBuzzBlog ©2024. Born and raised in Brooklyn, he now resides in Westchester with his wife, two kids, and Ferris, a black lab rescue dog, and El Chapo, a pug rescue dog. His writings are often featured in The Writer and IBPA’s The Independent.  This award-winning blog has generated over 3.9 million pageviews. With 5,000+ posts over the past dozen years, it was named one of the best book marketing blogs by BookBaby  http://blog.bookbaby.com/2013/09/the-best-book-marketing-blogs  and recognized by Feedspot in 2021 and 2018 as one of the top book marketing blogs. It was also named by www.WinningWriters.com as a "best resource.” For the past three decades, including 21 years as the head of marketing for the nation’s largest book publicity firm, and director of publicity positions at two independent presses, Brian has worked with many first-time, self-published, authors of all genres, right along with best-selling authors and celebrities such as: Dr. Ruth, Mark Victor Hansen, Joseph Finder, Katherine Spurway, Neil Rackham, Harvey Mackay, Ken Blanchard, Stephen Covey, Warren Adler, Cindy Adams, Todd Duncan, Susan RoAne, John C. Maxwell, Jeff Foxworthy, Seth Godin, and Henry Winkler. He hosted a panel on book publicity for Book Expo America several years ago, and has spoken at ASJA, BookCAMP, Independent Book Publishers Association Sarah Lawrence College, Nonfiction Writers Association, Cape Cod Writers Association, Willamette (Portland) Writers Association, APEX, Morgan James Publishing, and Connecticut Authors and Publishers Association. His letters-to-the-editor have been published in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, New York Post, NY Daily News, Newsday, The Journal News (Westchester) and The Washington Post. His first published book was The Florida Homeowner, Condo, & Co-Op Association Handbook.  It was featured in The Sun Sentinel and Miami Herald.

 

Interview with Author Jeffrey Kropp

 

            

 

1. What inspired you to write this book?

I am originally from the Chicago land area. I grew up with plans to play baseball for the Chicago Cubs or White Sox during the season and be an auto mechanic during the winter months in Florida. Fate had other plans for me as I started cooking professionally in 1976. After culinary school which finished in 1979, I was trained by a Swiss-German pastry chef in the art of pastry making. Throughout my 25 year career in the kitchen being the pastry chef in 400-room hotels and cooking for movie stars on sets, I competed in culinary competitions. Competing in these competitions took a lot of time and energy besides working 10 to 12 hours a day, six-days a week in the kitchen. So I set out to discover who, what, when, where and why these culinary competitions started in the first place.

 

2. What exactly is it about and who is it written for?

This book is about how this culinary competition event began in 1900, Frankfurt, Germany. I mixed in the restart of the Olympic Games in 1896 as I take the reader through the Nazi regime in the 1930s and 40s and how the Culinary Olympics were restarted post World War II. The book is written for chefs, about chefs, and for the future of the culinary arts. It is also written for the audience that likes to watch cooking competitions on TV.

 

3. What do you hope readers will get out of reading your book?

I hope that readers will have a new understanding of what chefs go through in order to come up with new menu ideas to present to their patrons. It isn't easy to make a menu today for a restaurant. There are many issues with food now and many allergies that patrons suffer with physically. So chefs have to consider all of these alternatives when organizing a menu. Competing gives the chefs a chance to get out of the kitchen, come up with new menu ideas, and see what other countries are cooking, along with  food trends that are coming up in the culinary arts, as well.

 

4. How did you decide on your book’s title and cover design?

I was inspired by a photo I discovered from a 1950s chef's magazine that had a chef pouring sauce on the world. I translated that photo to reflect my pastry background and I wanted to keep the title simple and easy to remember. I know from my marketing research that the public didn't know about this event. So it's a secret, until now. I am exposing the secret in the book. 

 

5. What advice or words of wisdom do you have for fellow writers – other than run!?

Very funny and true. Just run! I would say always write from the heart. But consider this, they have to start marketing before the book is published because marketing is very complicated now. The Internet has thrown an axe into the entertainment industry. This includes everything from podcasts to books, TV and movies. All of the different platforms that have developed, due to the Internet, have created their own satellite orbits, as I call them. It is the job of the marketeer to figure out where and what satellite markets they want to get into and then proceed to make those connections to start the marketing process. Or go and climb Mount Everest, then the marketing may not seem so difficult to conquer. I also highly recommend producing a book promo video so their readers get a taste of who they are in person. Here's the link to my video; https://youtu.be/Rhx5F7TFp2M

  

6. What trends in the book world do you see -- and where do you think the book publishing industry is heading? 

This answer is anybody's guess. From what I have seen so far, the book world will become a bit more complicated because there are people out there who say they can publish your book and/or promote your book for a lot of money, but they don't have the experience to accomplish that part of the deal, or they don't have the connections either. These people are only eager to get their hands on your money. Be careful who you pick to work with today for tomorrow. Business has become complicated because the writer rarely gets to meet the publisher or editor in the book market of today, which adds to the anxiety of writing a book. 

 

7. Were there experiences in your personal life or career that came in handy when writing this book? 

I had to live the life of a pastry chef and compete in American Culinary Federation sanctioned cooking competitions as well as compete at the Culinary Olympics in Germany. So if I hadn't lived that life, there is no way I could have come up with the book. The American Culinary Federation was formed in 1929 in New York City. They have about 14,000 chef members today.

 

8. How would you describe your writing style? Which writers or books is your writing similar to?

I don't compare my writing style to anybody else because I am breaking new ground with this book. If I had to give an answer for this question, I would say it's similar to the book, Olympics in Athens 1896—The Invention of the Modern Olympic Games. I only say this because that book is historically documenting the restart of the Olympic Games which is what I did with my book, documenting the start of the Culinary Olympics in 1900. By no means am I a scholar or accomplished professor. I am the Dean of Chefs. I know a lot about the culinary arts and I am sharing my knowledge with the world. 

 

9. What challenges did you overcome in the writing of this book?

My career ended abruptly in 2000 after suffering critical injuries from a car accident. Then a second car accident in 2004 finished me off. So my running joke is, "The first car accident knocked me out and the second car accident finished me off." I endured years of physical rehabilitation to pull myself back together. I rejoined the Big Apple Chapter in 2010 in order to get some kind of feeling that my life was back to normal. I produced the newsletter for six years for the organization. If I never went back to the chefs' association, I would have never been told about four books that were donated by Chef Arno, a chef member of the association. He donated these four books—that floated over the Atlantic from Frankfurt to New York City in the 1960s— to the Culinary Institute of America. These books are from 1899, 1900, 1901 and 1902, that Herr Banzer published back in Germany. They were the original books from the German Chefs' Association in Frankfurt. They documented how the Culinary Olympics started and what teams came to compete at the event in 1900. I wouldn't have the history of the event if I had just given up back then. Besides, I beat colon cancer in 2010 too. So I had to carry on with my life and make it count.

 

10. If people can buy or read one book this week or month, why should it be yours?

TV producers want their viewers to think that cooking competitions on TV are new. Maybe they are new to the viewing public, but they are not new to the arena of the competing chef. I am inspired by what people go through in order to get something started that might work or not work. Read my book to get inspired to accomplish something with one's life, no matter how big or how small it is, everything matters. There are many people in the cemeteries with unfinished dreams. Conquer your dreams and you might make the world a better place.

 

About The Author:

 

A Grand Marnier soufflé for Bill Cosby, stuffed cabbage rolls for Hulk Hogan, a velvety chocolate mousse for John Belushi, latticed apple flan for Demi Moore, glazed salmon ala parisienne for James Earl Jones, veal casserole for Hockey great Wayne Gretzky, and steak tartare for Dave Thomas of Wendy’s. European trained pastry/catering chef Dean Kropp has catered to the stars. After graduating from the JJC Culinary Arts Program in Joliet, where they shot Prison Break, Dean has held a wide range of posts, both domestic and abroad. For example, he was Executive Pastry Chef at both the Wyndham Rose Hall in Montego Bay (Jamaica) and the Peabody Hotel in Memphis, former stamping ground of Elvis. Kropp competed in culinary competitions from garde manger—cold food to pastry—where he won bronze to gold medals. Now he has used his culinary training to write about the history of the Culinary Olympics. The name of the book is—The Cooking Olympics-World’s Best Kept Secret. Kropp went to the extent of recreating recipes for his book, then linking a QR code for each recipe, so the reader can watch the Dean of Chefs in action cooking each one on YouTube. For more info, please see: https://readersfavorite.com/book-review/the-cooking-olympics. I started my book promo tour in Germany at the Culinary Olympics in Stuttgart. I continued my tour in Virginia at the US Military competition at Fort Gregg-Adams Army Base near Richmond Virginia. I produced a documentary on the two events and here's the link; https://youtu.be/040lX6q-sgI

 

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About Brian Feinblum

Brian Feinblum should be followed on www.linkedin.com/in/brianfeinblum. This is copyrighted by BookMarketingBuzzBlog ©2024. Born and raised in Brooklyn, he now resides in Westchester with his wife, two kids, and Ferris, a black lab rescue dog, and El Chapo, a pug rescue dog. His writings are often featured in The Writer and IBPA’s The Independent.  This award-winning blog has generated over 3.9 million pageviews. With 5,000+ posts over the past dozen years, it was named one of the best book marketing blogs by BookBaby  http://blog.bookbaby.com/2013/09/the-best-book-marketing-blogs  and recognized by Feedspot in 2021 and 2018 as one of the top book marketing blogs. It was also named by www.WinningWriters.com as a "best resource.” For the past three decades, including 21 years as the head of marketing for the nation’s largest book publicity firm, and director of publicity positions at two independent presses, Brian has worked with many first-time, self-published, authors of all genres, right along with best-selling authors and celebrities such as: Dr. Ruth, Mark Victor Hansen, Joseph Finder, Katherine Spurway, Neil Rackham, Harvey Mackay, Ken Blanchard, Stephen Covey, Warren Adler, Cindy Adams, Todd Duncan, Susan RoAne, John C. Maxwell, Jeff Foxworthy, Seth Godin, and Henry Winkler. He hosted a panel on book publicity for Book Expo America several years ago, and has spoken at ASJA, BookCAMP, Independent Book Publishers Association Sarah Lawrence College, Nonfiction Writers Association, Cape Cod Writers Association, Willamette (Portland) Writers Association, APEX, Morgan James Publishing, and Connecticut Authors and Publishers Association. His letters-to-the-editor have been published in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, New York Post, NY Daily News, Newsday, The Journal News (Westchester) and The Washington Post. His first published book was The Florida Homeowner, Condo, & Co-Op Association Handbook.  It was featured in The Sun Sentinel and Miami Herald.