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This doesn't have anything to do with the tagged book, but title was appropriate. ?
Such an annoying feature in some books is when they say things like "and little did she know, that was the last time she felt such joy with the people she loved" "she had no idea there would be such heartache in the times ahead"..sooo like what?? Does someone DIE? Who gets hurt? How many times can a book drop that there is doom ahead before it gets to be too much

Curious what others think of this? I hate when someone tells me that the narrator is unreliable, it takes the joy out of discovering it for myself. Is it just me? Should we put a spoiler alert if we‘re posting this information.

Aaaaaand GO! 😃

This has been on my mind a lot lately. I am sick of hearing the misuse of "nauseous." I think when I hear people say it, I may just start telling them to look it up--it doesn't mean what you think. I suppose I'm feeling a but snobby today.

The worst.

(From Pinterest)

1. Bad Grammar
2. Neither, chocolate please!😝
3. Happy the Hamster 🤣😂
4. Romance
5. ❤️💕❤️💕
#friyaintro @jesshowbooks

1. Aggressive drivers.
2. Both
3. Elvis
4. Romance, beach reads, crime fiction
5. ❤
#friyayintro

1. People who chew and/or talk with their mouth full
2. Neither I prefer to have my sweets in the form of sour candy
3. Moonshadow the cat (get it...Cat Stevens...moonshadow 😂 I was only 5 I can‘t take credit😜)
4. Romance
5. Of course!
#friyayintro

#FriyayIntro
1. When someone asks your opinion, then tells you you‘re wrong.
2. Cake, preferably chocolate
3. Tippy, my first dog at age 5
4. Horror
5. ❤️🎉👏🏻🌈📚🙌🏻🐾🎆🎇👐🏻

1. Cheesiness of any description 😝
2. When the book is good but the ending feels rushed.
3. Badly written female characters.
#bookspetpeeves @thereadingowlvina

Literary pet peeve increasingly found in books published in the last couple of years-characters talking about their awareness of their own/another character's privilege. Want me to know that your character is aware? Or not aware? Show me, don't tell me. Don't state it and leave it. Otherwise it feels like the author is just checking off a current issues/buzzwords box on their book's outline. It isn't "woke"; it's lazy. Do better or don't do it.

Personal peeve- bookstores that do this. It is stuck there for life now!

A few days late for #bookishpetpeeves but here goes:

When you download a kindle sample and the first three-quarters are taken up by blurbs, introductions and other front matter. Grrr! You end up with about three pages worth of book to "sample"!

/end rant

#marchintoreading

#marchintoreading All my #bookishpetpeeves have been enumerated by everyone already. But my biggest is when someone declares they don't read or don't see the need for reading. It just seems to me to be such a willful clinging to ignorance & cowardice 😳😱😡😥

#bookishpetpeeve is when bookstores have series of books in alphabetical order instead of chronological order. I know why they do it, I get it. I do, I just don't want to be accidentally spoiled because I grabbed what I thought might be the first in the series. Also, security stickers in the middle of the page. #marchintoreading

#MarchIntoReading #PetPeeve

Smell is my superpower, so my bookish pet peeve is when library books reek of funky smells.

I love bacon, but don't want a book that smells like it's been left in a smoker 😂

They changed the spine design AND the size of the books! (I'm channeling my mother here)...the nerve!!
#bookishpetpeeves #marchintoreading