Thursday 19 April 2012

Booking Through Thursday





Booking Through Thursday is a weekly meme hosted by Booking Through Thursday and a different question is posted every week. 




What are your literary “pet peeves”?


I had actually planned to do a discussion video on this very topic.  I'm quite a laid back reader, and not a lot really riles me up.
However,
I don't live love triangles.  I think they're used to excess and they simply bug me.  
I don't like book covers that have no relevance whatsoever.  For example, the protagonist is a red head, and they put a blond on the cover.  It just makes me think 'have the cover artists even read this book?!?'
And lastly I don't like repetitive descriptions, for example I recently read Darker After Midnight by Lara Adrian and I must have read the phrase 'throat felt dryer than ash' countless times.

6 comments:

  1. Repetive descriptions bug me to. The book on I'm on at the moment must have said, "He was silent for a long moment" about a hundred times so far. Here's mine: Small Blonde Hippy

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  2. You made valid points. I don't those either!


    Here is my BTT post!

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  3. I don't think I've read anything with repetitive phrases, but yeah that would peeve me too. Here’s my BTT
    Thanks
    Cathy @ Addicted to Books

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  4. That is a good peeve, repetitive phrases.

    http://tributebooksmama.blogspot.com/2012/04/booking-through-thursday_19.html

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  5. All of those things you mentioned drive me nuts, too.
    My BTT.

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