Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and 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. For the list of past topics and future schedule, click here.
Unpopular Bookish Opinions
Looking for Alaska – A “Bad” Novel
My middle school had the novel Detour for Emmy, about a girl who winds up pregnant her freshman year of high school. It was a book checked out back to back. It never stayed on the shelves. We read this in middle school.
Looking for Alaska is no different. Adults freak out about one scene in the book. If analyzed closely, the scene is a paradoxically juxtaposed with another scene in which what Alaska taught Pudge doesn’t end up working out very well at all. And that’s the end of it. It died right there. This is a book written about high school students doing high school-age things.
Vampires and Werewolves – OOO LA LA!
Vampires and werewolves do not make books better. In fact, that’s just a bandwagon trend to sell books. It’s its own form of trashy novels. I can’t even with them. Get out.
Annotating Your Books is BAD!
UHM. The greatest minds of all annotate things from legal briefs and contracts to their own works. What is the issue here, people? Responding and interacting with your text is the sign of a sophisticated reader. It’s your book. It’s their book. Why are you all bent out of shape about what someone else does with their own property? Go press your pages or something.
Hype Hype Hype
I am so over the “popular” series that roll out. They all look the same to me with such similar or synonymous titles and covers. Sadly, not one single one of them piqued my curiosity enough to want to read.
Girl of 1000 Wonders 
Cringing, oh I am sooo cringing at your vampire and werewolves comment! It’s funny though, if they aren’t in a book I’m likely not even to pick it up! There’s got to be something paranormal or out of the ordinary for me to even consider reading the dustjacket! Lol.
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