This week’s Top Ten Tuesday is an interesting one: what are my unpopular bookish opinions?
I am terrible at remembering to keep bookmarks – I think the longest one I have kept is the one my mother made for me at Christmas this past year. Almost six months! And I have a really bad habit of using money or credit cards as bookmarks. So really, to break all these habits, I just have no issue dog-earring a book. Especially if it’s one that has multiple pages that I need for something, like a podcast.
I do not do this in borrowed books, and honestly, as I use my kindle much more frequently, this isn’t too much of a thing. But I frequently have highlighted books, written in the margins, underlined things. I feel that books should be lived in! I loved finding used books as a kid that had notes in them – it showed that they were (most likely) enjoyed or loved books.
This is, in part, a joke, but Three Dark Crowns is the book that made me realize I had to start DNF’ing books, and that “this book is a bit slow but man that ending is worth it” is a really bad thing to say about a book. This book is slow and nothing like the summary suggests. It is something I still occasionally say about books – I need to figure out what I truly mean going forward – but if a book cannot capture me in the first 50 pages or 10%, then I just won’t read it.
This originally started as that some movies are actually better than the book, but then I started thinking about how I love some adaptations or retellings of books more than the actual original book. (Like most of Jane Austen’s books.) It’s okay to admit that some movies are better than the book. Sometimes the movies make the more problematic things of the books better.
Okay, I do need to get better about this, as I have slacked off, but I do actually like going through my books and donating/getting rid of them. I have bought some random crap through out the years, and my tastes have changed quite a bit. There are some books I will cling to, but for the most part, borrow away.
A weird divide in life is that you apparently can’t be good at maths and English, and you can’t love both. Well, I spent my undergrad getting a degree in English while tutoring in maths. I have always enjoyed both – I did actually major in mathematics before switching.
I really cannot tell you what drives me to avoid spoilers or not, but I don’t always avoid them. This can make me annoying, sure, as my bestie has definitely given me spoilers for things I didn’t want spoilers for. It doesn’t make me like a series less, and sometimes actually keeps me from quitting a book that I might have previously.
I will use this as an excuse to not buy a book, but I actually am okay if covers don’t match. I will say that if I buy a book in hard back, I will try to continue the series as such, but even still I am kind of shrug emoji about it.
Listen, I am not saying that Twilight is perfect, nor am I saying that I love the entire series, but I do recognize that Twilight got a generation of teenage girls reading or reading again. Sure, most people’s tastes have evolved since and some people’s haven’t! BOTH ARE FINE. Stop hating on media geared towards teenage girls.
Basically, you should have more to your life than just books. Reading doesn’t make you better than anyone else, just like being a tennis player doesn’t make you a better person than anyone else. Let people enjoy things without judgement (….within reason) and, I don’t know, don’t feel so superior.
That’s all I’ve got for now! What are your unpopular bookish opinions?
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