Eve's Fan Garden

January 28th

While I am sure there are others out there who do a Friday Five, it was one of our favorite authors, Cheryl Renee Herbsman who inspired us to start one of our own. Check out her amazing blog.

The way this works is each Friday morning we will post a prompt, question, topic, idea, etc that we will respond to. We will try to keep it general but also mostly related to books.

We encourage you to post your own response in the comments section, too.

If you decide to start your own Friday Five, please credit it back to Cheryl Renee Herbsman’s blog.

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Pet Peeves

We all have ‘em. (Some more than others…)

This week we want to know what are five of your pet peeves related to books or reading.

DONNA

1. Having to wait – sometimes more than a year – to read the next book in a series…

2. When a book cover is the only redeeming quality of a book

3. When I am reading a book and I have to go to bed…

4. When Amazon.com doesn’t deliver the book(s) on time.

5. When you THINK you are reading a stand alone book and then get to the end only to find out its a series or trilogy.

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SARA

Okay, I am warning you, you are going to think I am way strange for some of these!

1. My biggest pet peeve is I hate it when the binding of my books get creased. If you look at a book after I read it, it still looks brand new! This has become such a problem, that I have a hard time lending my books out. Recently, I started to buy books in hardcover so that I can deal with it. If I have to buy in paperback, I need to buy the trade paperback instead of the mass produced. Those crease WAY too bad! I am seriously that OCD.

2. Going along with number 1, when a book is only available in mass produced paperback!!There are several books that I have been looking for that are no longer available in hardcover and only available in mass produced!

3. I hate having a series of books in both paperback and hardcover. If I start buying a series in paperback, I like to finish it in paperback. There are exceptions like my Sookie Stackhouse. I just can’t wait for them in paperback! Plus they are only out in mass produced which goes back to number 2.

4. When I don’t order my new release in time from Amazon and it gets back-ordered! Since I have to order in hardcover, I always order from Amazon because they are basically the same price as a paperback. I could easily go to the local bookstore to get the hardcover. I hate having to wait because of my little problem!!

5. Please don’t change the book cover when the movie comes out. What’s wrong with the original cover? And yes, because of my book OCD, I will go out of my way to find/order/buy the non-movie cover. I also hate it when they change the cover in the middle of a series so that they don’t go together anymore!

HM- Finally, one that doesn’t have anything to do with my book OCD! I hate it when a book doesn’t resolve. I spent all of that time reading a book, the least you can do is give me a decent ending!

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MARYANNE

1) Hardcover books – I love, love, love trade paperbacks. I like the size, the feel. I wish all books came out in trade paperback form instead of hardcover.

2) Dust Jackets  on hardcover books – They drive me crazy. They fall off, they get creased. I would much rather have a paperback. (See #1)

3) Dog Eared Pages – I about had a heart attack when I saw my daughter dog ear a page instead of using a book mark! Is she insane? Her mother raised her wrong!

4) Finishing – Sometimes when a book is really great, it’s so hard to finish it and leave the characters behind.

5) End of a series – it’s like losing a friend. I hate it when I find a series I love and read through them all and there’s NO more!

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Kate-

1. Dust jackets- I hate them. I love hard covers and I love the beautiful pictures that are on them, but they don’t stay on the book when you are trying to read they slide around and are generally annoying. The first thing I do when I bring a hard cover home is throw the stupid thing away.

2. The fact that the synopsis on hardcovers is only printed on the dustjacket, which we already know I throw away. When I go back and try and figure out what a book is about I can’t, and that’s just annoying.

3. Bad research- this porbably should have been number 1. I hate it when you are reading a book and it’s talking about something you know really well, a place or a time in history or a person, etc and they get the information all wrong. It totally kills the book for me. I love doing research and it really isn’t all that hard to get the information right- bad research = laziness as far as I’m concerned.

4. Different cover art throughout a series. I hate it when there is a long series of books and suddenly the art design changes in the middle, or thre are multiple releases with different art that makes it hard to get a complete set that matches. Harry Potter was like this and so are the Sookie Stackhouse books. Like Sara I can’t wait for the right paperback with the right artwork to come out so I grab the hard cover and then when the paperback comes out I’ll search for the right cover and order it. I really like when they all line up on my bookshelf and match.

5. Speaking of matching- I hate when my home library is out of order. I’m slightly anal retentive on the subject. We have tons of books- a whole room with shelves floor to ceiling and the books have to be in order. I hate when the books are all stacked up on the floor or the top of the shelves or wherever they happen to be. It takes hours to organize, but I like them all to be seperated by genre, then alphabetically by author. Of course I have a seperate shelf that just holds my series’ and then in my office is my TBR shelf (also organized) and my autographed book shelf.  It get  abit out of hand- but I like the way it looks when it’s all done!