BookishPetpeeve

#BookishPetPeeve - when the publisher wastes my time telling me the awards the book/author won and quoting reviews of the book. Maybe tell me what the book is about? That's going to get my attention more than accolades.

erzascarletbookgasm Agree! I want to read the blurb of the book! 4y

veritysalter It drives me mad, I don‘t want to know what so-and-so at the Daily Mail thinks. Also while I‘m ranting, I hate “The New...” insert Agatha Christie or Gone Girl or any other popular book 😡 (edited) 4y

Sace @erzascarletbookgasm exactly! How do I know if I want to read it if I don't know what it's about! 4y

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Sace @veritysalter Maybe so-and-so doesn't share my tastes in books (and half the time I don't even know who it is.) And yes! "The New..." anything usually just means a knockoff. Or at least that's how it reads. 4y

JacqMac Agreed!! 4y

rwmg I have a similar reaction to "for fans of ...". Derivative shlock. As a rule of thumb, the more exclamation marks in the Bookbub blurb, the less likely I am to be interested. 4y

Sace @rwmg 🤣 4y

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julesG

A Murderous Malady: A Florence Nightingale Mystery | Christine Trent

An ARC from ages ago

Need an impromptu #HistoricalFictionInaccuracyAnnoyanceSupportGroup meeting.

It's the year 1854.
Set in London.
The MC is Florence Nightingale.
FIRST chapter

"...dashing into a taxi."

TAXI??

The German at the bottom of the Google search says: time-line of usage of Taxi/Taximeter

1854 has a flat line.

????

#BookishPetPeeve

julesG @CoverToCoverGirl @GingerAntics @JazzFeathers @Weaponxgirl @RavenLovelyReads @Birdsong28 @KCorter 5y

Birdsong28 They had things such as Hansom cabs which were horse drawn taxis if that is any help @julesg 5y

julesG @Birdsong28 Not really, but thank you. I mean, I know they had hansoms and hackneys, but in 1854 no Londoner worth their salt would have called it taxi. That's what's getting my hackles up. 5y

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JazzFeathers Not even in the 1920s were they called 'taxis' 😒 5y

Birdsong28 @julesG Suppose so, it's annoying when they can't get it right or simplify it for the general audience as they think we can't understand it. 😀📚📖 5y

julesG @JazzFeathers My point exactly. Took me so out of the story - within the first chapter - that I'm not sure I even want to read it now. 5y

julesG @Birdsong28 soooo annoying! It's not even a big deal to look it up. I can only hope they caught this glitch before the book was published. 5y

Birdsong28 @julesG Probably not!! 5y

8little_paws Yeah this drives me nuts also 5y

8little_paws Something I read in the past year, I forgot what, used the term "ok" in a time period way before it was commonly used and I had a hard time taking the book seriously from them on. 5y

julesG @8little_paws I'm eating the tagged book right now. The characters use "okay/are you okay?" all the time. But it's set in 1941.

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CoverToCoverGirl Yikes! That‘s definitely a very jarring oversight that would take me out the story. 😔🤯 5y

Sarah83 In Anthony Horowitz book about Sherlock Holmes there was used computer instead of typewriter... 🤔😆 5y

julesG @Sarah83 Noooo! 😱 5y

Sarah83 Ohhhhh yes 😭 that's why, I don't like the book and why I didn't read a book written by him for a long time. 5y

julesG @Sarah83 Understandable. 5y

8little_paws @julesG this book was either pre 1850, from what I recall. 5y

GingerAntics That is an absolute fail!!! I would have thought that was an easy one. 🤦🏼‍♀️ 5y

GingerAntics There is absolutely NOTHING for any use of taxi until right around 1900. 5y

RavenLovelyReads Is it bad that I giggled myself silly after I read it?? 😜 5y

julesG @RavenLovelyReads Absolutely not. 😁 5y

MargaretPinardAuthor 😓 5y

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Nessavamusic

A Duke in Disguise: The Regency Impostors | Cat Sebastian

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I would give this 3.5🌟
The pacing is slow and the descriptions of various things a bit too exacting making the book tedious at times, so it took me far longer to finish then the author‘s previous books. I do like the characters and it is a fresh take on the Duke hero trope. FYI, the cover makes no sense for these characters, she would never wear that gown. #romantsy

BookishMarginalia It drives me nuts when the cover illustration is at odds with the book‘s content! #bookishpetpeeve 6y

Nessavamusic Yes! And often the author has no input 6y

llwheeler I did think this cover was not very in keeping with her other books, so glad to know it's not reflective of the characters. I'm still excited for this one, I love her books! 6y

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OriginalCyn620

The Dinner List | Rebecca Serle

Typos are a #bookishpetpeeve of mine. I know I‘m not alone in that!

CMB Aargh....😩 6y

Amiable I'm with you --drives me nuts. My job is an editor, so my eye is automatically drawn to errors and typos. It feels like I'm at work! 6y

RadicalReader @OriginalCyn620 makes me think where there was a passage mentioning how important is it to exorcise your phone battery 6y

rather_be_reading i didnt catch that! 6y

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OriginalCyn620

Less: A Novel | Andrew Sean Greer

This is the last book I have to read for the #modernmrsdarcy challenge! It has long chapters, which is a #bookishpetpeeve of mine, even though it makes sense why the author did it that way.

Mdargusch I just started this today on Audible. 👍🏼 6y

CouronneDhiver My current read has long chapters too and it‘s making me crazy... I much prefer something set out in more manageable chunks. 6y

jenreads7 Good luck! I like shorter chapters too. 6y

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julesG

The Toy Makers | Robert Dinsdale

Just a few pages further in, I've come across a slip in grammar. From past tense to present tense.

It annoys me. Really. I'm itching to take red pen to the pages.

#bookishpetpeeve

Headinherbooks_27 That's one of my pet peeves too! 6y

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julesG

The Toy Makers | Robert Dinsdale

Not the first 'wrong word' in this book. And I'm not yet in the three-digit page numbers. Heavens! No proofreading? Someone should have spotted this.

Honestly, for a book being sold in hardcover, I'd expect the publishers to take more care.

How does an error like this even happen? Auto-predict? Was this written on a mobile?
I get spelling errors but wrong words like the one above?

#bookishpetpeeve

Cinfhen 😠 6y

CarolynM You have to wonder... 6y

Sarah83 That's pretty sad 🤔 6y

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CoffeeAndABook Wow. Pretty bad 🙈 6y

PickwickPlockPlock I would expect such an error with OCR, when you scan a book and automatically convert it to text. 6y

TrishB Doesn‘t make me want to read.... 6y

Lcsmcat Errors like that take me so far out of the story that I usually bail. Or if it‘s for book club and I _have_ to finish, I spend the rest of the Book looking for them and tallying them in my head. 😡 6y

julesG @TrishB @Lcsmcat - this error put me off the book for a few hours at least. It's just so annoying. 6y

julesG @PickwickPlockPlock Wouldn't you expect that when using OCR, they'd proofread extra carefully to catch such mistakes? 6y

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mrp27

The Bookshop: The Gate of Angels ; The Blue Flower | Penelope Fitzgerald

#readingresolutions #bookishpetpeeve

Movie tie in book covers, a major pet peeve. Although this one isn't that bad. I do love to see movie adaptations of books I've read and I'm looking forward to this one.

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JennyM Oooo, I didn‘t realise this really annoys me too until I saw your post. I hate the movie tie in covers! Xx (edited) 6y

StillLookingForCarmenSanDiego I loath movie covers too! 6y

mrp27 @StillLookingForCarmenSanDiego @JennyM For some reason movie tie in covers always seem to look so cheesy and dramatic. 6y

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WhiskeyMistress

How to Read a History Book: The Hidden History of History | Marshall T. Poe

#readingresolutions #bookishpetpeeve #historicalaccuracy My biggest pet peeve isn‘t with the books but with the readers. Reviews about how certain books don‘t fit the morals of the present day are not helpful. Historical 👏🏻Perspective 👏🏻People👏🏻. Do I like degrading slurs or abusive behaviors? No. Do they make sense in historical/classic lit? Sadly, yes. If we deny our history, we forget how it was. Then we are doomed to repeat it. @Jess7

WhiskeyMistress @ErinSueG what we were talking about... 6y

plaidchuck My thoughts exactly. I feel the same way when people dismiss classics due to this or even the author's personal life. 6y

Burghbookaddict Omg I know. Things were different 150 years ago. Society evolves. 🙄 6y

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wanderinglynn Exactly this. Well said! 6y

JessClark78 I agree. This is one of my pet peeves as well. 6y

Erinsuereads It‘s so true. We need to study on this more. There might be blog potential here. Also the book you tagged is an excellent choice 😂🙌 6y

GripLitGrl 👏👏👏 6y

Crewgurl Yes agreed!!!!! 6y

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