non-exhaustive list of things I inexplicably loathe in books
- songs in novels (this means you, Tolkien)
- geography or elaborate descriptions of layouts, with or without accompanying maps (Tolkien again; also, the Tomorrow series)
- post-apocalyptic books with no hope (On the Beach, for instance)
- most present-tense YA (I will inevitably read them anyway, but complain a great deal)
- grieving girl books
- how Cormac McCarthy believes he’s above proper punctuation. It’s(/Its) distracting.
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Oh god, yes, on the present tense. I don’t know what it is, but I just can’t stand to read it in narrative prose. I know...
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believer in reading the...before watching the movie, and I succeeded
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alpha-lima-lima-papa reblogged this from thecardiganlibrarian and added:
I’ve never been able to read a Tolkien book...its entirety, save for The Hobbit for
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dispatches from library school and beyond by Katherine Grimm Bowers
