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This week’s Top Ten Tuesday from That Artsy Reader Girl<\/a> is all about the things that annoy us about books:<\/p>\n

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  1. Bad editing<\/li>\n
  2. Unhappy endings, particularly ones that sneak up on me (This is often what nets books a single star on Goodreads.)<\/li>\n
  3. Surprise sequels (I’m looking at you, Miss Peregrine.<\/em>)<\/li>\n
  4. A lack of description anywhere on a cover (It’s great that other people love it; I’ll need to know what it’s about first.)<\/li>\n
  5. Bad descriptions of D.C. (I stopped reading a book once based on its description of the fountain in Dupont Circle.)<\/li>\n
  6. Mysteries where the bad guy is obvious from the start.<\/li>\n
  7. Mysteries where the person dies of an accident and the person who witnessed it left town (I stopped reading the Aunt Dimity books after that.)<\/li>\n
  8. Endings that seem rushed (See #1.)<\/li>\n
  9. Self-help books (The only ones I’ve tried have focused on creativity, and usually it’s the author’s tone that makes me want to throw the book into traffic.)<\/li>\n
  10. Traditional gender roles reinforced in sneaky ways (The ones that are overbearing I’ve usually abandoned early on, so it’s usually a stupid remark after a couple has gotten together that makes me resent having spent any time with them at all.)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    How about you? What pisses you off about books?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    This week’s Top Ten Tuesday from That Artsy Reader Girl is all about the things that annoy us about books: Bad editing Unhappy endings, particularly ones that sneak up on me (This is often what nets books a single star on Goodreads.) Surprise sequels (I’m looking at you, Miss Peregrine.) 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