It's kind of hurting my feelings that I have this little "mailing list" of friends who offered, volunteered to read the first book of the series I'm working on, and so far my Dad, who I've always had sort of an awkward and a little distant relationship with and who I've often felt doesn't really have an interest in anything I do, is actually the only person who's making a serious effort at reading through it.
Like, he studiously sits down and reads like a chapter a day, and is even keeping names and stuff straight (my Dad's not usually a big reader and kind of has a short attention span by his own admission, and my story has a big ensemble cast it switches back and forth between).
Meanwhile my friends and even my Mom, who keep encouraging me to keep writing and asking how it's going, can't be bothered to read a page of the actual book and eternally say they're "busy".
Maybe I'm being demanding/attention-seeking, I dunno. But this is my first actual serious novel I've tried to hammer out, so I'm insecure about how it is, and kind of really wanting some feedback, preferably from multiple sources, and my friends are writers too.
I'm trying not to be too insistent about it, but it's just frustrating and kind of makes me feel offended sometimes and/or paranoid that they secretly did start to read it and found it so interminably boring they stopped.
Bah.