This week's Top Ten from The Broke and the Bookish asks for the Top Ten Words/Topics that will make you NOT pick up a book. This is the exact opposite of the April question. I’m pretty open minded about trying new genres, but there are a few words that tend to make me avoid a book. That’s not saying I’ll never read something that falls into these categories, they just aren’t my normal thing.
1) Political commentary – Really, politics haven’t changed much over the past few centuries.
2) Parenting – Just not there yet.
3) Romance Novels – Not my jam.
4) Teen angst – I’m okay with some (think Harry Potter book 5), but too much and it wears me out.
5) Self-help – I really liked The Happiness Project, but other self-help books usually just seem like common sense tips to me.
6) Chick Lit - I know there are some great ones, but there’s also a lot of junk.
7) Cold war spy thriller - Tend to bore me
8) Celebrity Memoir - I don’t think any 20-something celebrity has lived enough to write a book about their life.
9) Fan Fiction – I’d rather read the fiction that inspired it.
10) Classic rewritten as romance novels - Think Jane Eyre rewritten as erotica, just wrong.
