Book 24: Beartown by Fredrick Backman

Format:  Paperback
Date Started:  June 3, 2019
Date I Asked Permission to Stop Reading:  June 12, 2019

You know that feeling of intense dread?  Like, something is coming down the pike, and it isn't good?   
I had when I picked up the book and read that one of the characters was already so anxious about the coming day that he was throwing up.  

As a result, I plodded through this book and did things incredibly out of character - like not reading at all before I went to bed - just so that I wouldn't have to face whatever was coming in the book. 

Once it arrived, though, I felt like I had committed to riding out the horror, but I am a wimp and couldn't take it.  As ridiculous as it sounds, I had to ask my husband if I could stop reading it. I think I felt like I was abandoning the character in question when she needed help the most, and thus I needed permission to walk away from a totally fictional character...which will be great to discuss in therapy later.