Showing posts with label Book Turnoffs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Book Turnoffs. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Top Ten Tuesday

This week's topic is  Top Ten Book Turn-Offs. It's a little similar to the topic in July, but different too. These are some of the things that make me put a book down. I had a hard time coming up with these - so you get 5 instead of ten. I'll be very interested in seeing what everyone else adds to their list. 


Cheating (relationship wise). I hate discovering a character I like cheating.

Not liking any of the characters - if it's hard for me to connect with the characters, there's no point in me reading the book - no matter how good the writing is.

If the plot doesn't hook me - there are so many fantastic books out there, that I don't have time to read books that don't grab my interest.

If the mood of the book is making me grumpy or depressed, I'll only read a little bit at a time or not finish it.

And finally sometimes another book comes in at the library and it's one I've been dying to read. So I'll put down my current book to read that one. Sometimes I never go back, even though the first book was good.

Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Top Ten Tuesday

This week's topic is the opposite of April 30th's topic: Top Ten Words/Topics That Will Make You NOT pick up a book. Mostly when I read, I'm looking for a good that will make me happy - not one that will make me cry. Most of my turn-offs stem from not wanting to be depressed while reading. That doesn't mean that there aren't exceptions to the rule.

Death
Cancer - hits too close to home
Heartbreaking/Heart Wrenching/Tugs at your heart strings - I want to read happy books, not books that makes me cry.
Zombies
Aliens
Horror - I hate being scared
Cruelty to animals
Animals as main characters
Narrators that talk to the readers
Trafficking