Least Favorite Friday Five: My Book Pet Peeves

Pet peeves we all have them. I have many of them, and because I did my fun little game about book adverisements earlier this week, I thought about my top 5, not so favorite pet peeves when it comes to reading a book.

Do you have any of the same pet peeves.

5. Doggy-Earring books: I get it, sometimes we’re out and about and we lose our bookmark and we’re in the mood to read. It’s rough. Even when it’s gotten rough and I was out and about, I hadn’t resorted to folding a page in the book. Once it’s folded, there’s no way to unfold it. That’s why I usually keep half a sheet of paper in my book in case I’m out and about.

4. People who put too many spoilers in reviews on Amazon or Good Reads: Normally don’t read the reviews on Good Reads or Amazon, if ever. I don’t even look at the rating. I don’t want to know the whole story, or what makes the story unreadable. I want to draw my own conclusions. Even if it is an author whose books I’ve read in the past.

3. The judgmental glances I get for reading a book in public: I rather read a paper book, than an e-book any day. I’ve sat on a bench reading a book in the lobby of Walmart waiting for my husband’s grandpa. Most of the time I’m reading a book that’s at least 50 years old, or has yet to come out and it’s an advanced readers copy. I don’t read my book in public to show off or to get judgmental glances. I’m reading the book because I want to.

2. Misplacing my book: It’s not as much of a pet peeve as much as it is something that’s happened, and I kick myself. I don’t know how many times I’ve misplaced a book, and I don’t even know how on earth I’ve done so. I’ll search high and low, and low to high. I’ll eventually find my book in the place I’ve looked over and over again.

1. Breaking the binding in: I don’t mind opening a book and allowing a book to show a little wear and tear, but I hate people who have to break the binding in. There comes a point that the pages actually fall out! It makes me sad when books come to that point. I don’t want to have to retape the pages back in, or even worse throw the book away!