Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme hosted by Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl. Top Ten Tuesday was originally 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.
The following are things I do not enjoy when it comes to reading novels.
1. Chick Lit - This is a genre that I simply do NOT gravitate towards.
2. Poetry - Yes, I have been know to enjoy some poetry, but again this is another genre I tend to avoid mostly.
3. Anything that is written as "stream of consciousness" isn't my thing. I remember having to read a novel by William Faulkner in college and hated the novel as it was a written in the style of "stream of consciousness".
4. I've read a few novels by various popular authors (Neil Gaiman, Rachel Hawkins, Rainbow Rowell, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and William Faulkner to list a few of them) and have not enjoyed their books. So, I now stay away from these authors.
5. Cliffhanger endings are so annoying! If I even hear a that a novel has a cliffhanger ending, I don't want to read it.
6. Ambiguous endings are another ending I dislike!
7. Unreliable narrators - I have a love hate relationship with unreliable narrators. If done well, then I'm fine with unreliable narrators. If not, then yuck!
8. Small print/font size in physical books!! I have aging eyes, so smaller print/font size is annoying to me. I stick with either audiobooks, Kindle books, or physical books with not so small print.
9. Absurdist fiction - I tried it. I didn't like this genre.
10. Obscure genres don't interest me in the least.
What things do you tend to avoid when it comes to books?
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