Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.
This week’s topic is the opposite of last week. Last week was: Top Ten Things That Make Me Want To Read A Book. This week’s topic is: Top Ten Things That Make Me NOT Want to Read a Book.
TOP TEN THINGS THAT MAKE ME NOT WANT TO READ A BOOK
- The “shirtless man” book cover. Put your shirt on, dude.
- Politics. Keep current politics away from my reading/reviewing. I want my reading and my blog to bring people together, not drive them apart.
- Horror. I just can’t handle it and it affects my dreams. I do like the paranormal genre (ghosts, werewolves, etc., as long as it’s not too bloody or scary).
- Romance as a primary genre. There has to be something else going on. Romance can’t be the primary genre. If there’s a mystery or a historical event or some time travel, then go ahead and throw in some romance.
- Too many sex scenes. To me, that means the author was short on plot, so they threw in a bunch of nipples and quivering loins. As I said in a review once, “If you’ve seen one nipple, you’ve seen them all.”
- Present tense. I know it’s popular right now, but I like my books old school. I have read a few books in spite of that and enjoyed some of them.
- Second person. Ah…The horrors. I’ve read exactly one book in second person. Never again.
- Setting a book in a particular place and then attacking the people who live there. I went on a rip-roaring 1-star review once when a traditionally published author spent a whole book attacking the people of the mountains of Kentucky, where her cozy mystery was set.
- Disguising a book as something it’s not. I can think of several books that I chose because of the cover and the blurb that turned out to be political books, which I do not read.
- The “F” word. Now I know that the “F” word can be used as a noun, verb, adjective, and dangling participle, but come on. There are other words out there. I think that using too many “F” words shows a lack of creativity. I’ll be hiding in the corner.
What are your reasons to NOT read a book?
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