Top 5 Wednesday is a weekly meme from Goodreads, created by Lainey from Gingerreadslainey and now moderated by Sam from ThoughtsOnTomes.
I had a really nice post scheduled for today, but I had to reschedule it when I saw this prompt. I laughed pretty hard. Grade A Grinch right here. I hate the holidays. I hate the stress of gift-giving, I hate that we spend a literal entire day baking every year, I hate that my mom has 17 boxes of decorations that ALL have to get put up EVERY YEAR, and most of all, I hate how materialistic it all is.
But I know no one wants to hear me be a Grinch about the holidays because I’m apparently a total killjoy, so y’all can hear me be a Grinch about book things instead!!! (It’s my gift to you. Enjoy)
5. Boring starts
My reading time is severely limited. I have two part-time jobs, art commissions to keep up with, and now a wedding to plan. I don’t have time to waste on boring books! I used to stick ’em out, but I don’t have the patience anymore. My new rule is, if it doesn’t grab me within 3 chapters, I’m done!
4. Slooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow moving
This goes hand in hand with the first one. I actually don’t mind slow-moving novels. It’s when graphic novels are slower paced that I start chomping at the bit. This is probably because I’m so used to reading superhero comics that, by nature, are fast-paced. Slow-moving graphic novels seems like an oxymoron to me!
3. Formulaic plots
I hate guessing how the plot is going to go, then being right. Some plots you see over and over and over again. Shake it up, people!!!
2. Poorly designed covers
Like… did you even try???
1. Mainstream fiction
You know what I mean. Those authors who put out 3 books every year and whose names take up half the cover. I read one Danielle Steele novel and that was more than enough for me. Call me a hipster, but I hate reading what everyone else reads!!!
So there you have it! A gloriously Grinchy post =P What are you a Grinch about?
– Kathleen
Graphic Novelty² 
December 6, 2017 at 11:49 am
SO MANY THINGS! I hate slow pace books because they bore me a lot!
I agree with you on these super creative covers… I mean I could design a cover better than that and idek how to design graphics.
– Zainab @ A Bibliophile’s Obsession
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December 7, 2017 at 11:14 am
I hear you! Slower paced books I can forgive, but not bad covers!!!
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December 6, 2017 at 12:44 pm
I feel you on the book covers that the author’s name takes up half the cover. In my head, I mumble ” I get it, I know your name, now where is the book title, it is in hiding.”
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December 7, 2017 at 11:14 am
Exactly! We all know your name is what sells the books, but come on!
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December 6, 2017 at 3:55 pm
Hello Kathleen, I agree about the book covers too. I go to my local book exchange and just look at the vast blandness of the covers and think to myself “I can’t be bothered trawling through all of that” which I know is unfair but it’s hard not to think it. I am in the process of reprogramming myself not to!
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December 7, 2017 at 11:15 am
Not judging a book by its’ cover is a good thing to try to overcome! But as an artist, I’m petty about that kind of stuff =P
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December 7, 2017 at 2:03 pm
Haha! Yes the material inside the sleeve is the important part but you’re right, the packaging wrapping the pages should have some effort put into it too.
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December 17, 2017 at 7:49 pm
Omg Kathleen! This was the funniest post that I couldn’t help agreeing with… well except I LOVE Christmas and don’t mind helping my mom put up her 20 Christmas trees, lol.
I do dislike terribly designed covers! Those dime a dozen fiction stories… And WHAT IS UP with slow starts lately?! Dude edit!! Cut, tighten! ♥️
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December 19, 2017 at 3:26 pm
Glad to bring some laughs X,D I can’t help sometimes but bring the little red pen in my head to what I read… come on, man! I don’t even get paid for that!
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