A long time ago I picked up Alexander McCall Smith's The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency, read a few pages and dropped it. I thought it was boring. But I was book shopping with my mom and she convinced me that it really was as charming, etc, as all the reviews so I tried again and forced myself to get all the way through it. I was right-it was boring. Not awful, just boring. But there it is listed on my blog.