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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My husband has been working on his first novel. He is mad at me and says I cannot buy another book until I read the draft of his novel. I have tried to read it before and find it boring! I don’t know how I’ll get through 200 pages of it!!

What a unique problem! [/quote]

I'm surprised no one else is getting stuck on this part: He "says I cannot buy another book" until she reads it. WTF? I'm going to hope that was either a terrible joke on his part, or something idiotic said in the heat of an argument, because if they have a dynamic where either of them tells the other what they can and cannot do, well, they have far larger problems than this book.

Putting that aside, OP, he's looking for support. Are you actually scared he'll expect you to gush over it? Like someone else said, you can skim it and intentionally pick out a few things to ask about. "How did you decide that character X would do Y?" is not effusive gushing, if that's what you fear, and it'll make him feel you paid attention. Sure, some authors do not want their spouses reading their work, but he has specifically asked you to do so (and it should be asked, not "told").

Do you always balk at doing whatever you deem "boring," without any regard to what others are asking of you? Especially when that other person is supposedly the primary person in your life, and a person you love and value? Maybe think about that. I wonder if you're slightly embarrassed by the idea that he's working on a novel and not doing whatever else you think is more interesting, lucrative, or important...to [i]you.[/i][/quote]

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