Welcome to the Eastern Iowa Patch book club, a place to discuss the books you love, the books you can't stand, the books you're reading and those you think everyone else should read too. Really, we're keeping it informal here, and we hope you'll join the discussion.

This week, our conversation is taking a different turn from our previous entries, comfort books and favorite female literary characters, to something a little more negative.

We have fond memories of books that transform the lens through which we see the world

We have those books we buy like we would flashlights, hoping the comfort we once got from them can be used, and reused, in dark times of our life.

But then there's the books that your mom really thought you would like. There are the books you bought because you thought you should read them, but never did. And there's also the books you started reading, but then you had a thing, so you forgot about them, and, besides, you lost your place so what's the point?

This list is for those books. The books we got bored of, the classics we couldn't get through and the gifts that we have received that were put, and will forever stay, on the shelves.

What books do you have that you will never read? Why?