What a Griffin Reads and Watches : Bookish Things You're a Grinch About/ Top 5 Wednesday

🎄 Bookish Things You're a Grinch About/

Top Five Wednesday- December 6th, 2017 🎄

"You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch"

For this week's top 5 Wednesday, we were supposed to pick out petty bookish things that bother us/ that we hate. (Stuff about covers, dump tropes, etc.) These are not serious topics that we hate (like a lack of diversity or abusive relationships in fiction, etc.). Basically, have fun with it.

Top 5 Wednesday is a group created by Lainey of Ginger Reads Lainey on Booktube. It is now hosted by Sam of Thoughts on Tomes on Booktube. Here is a link to the group on Goodreads if you are interested in joining.

5. Different book sizes- This usually bothers me when books in the same series change sizes. Also, the fact that there are so many different sizes for both paperbacks and hardbacks. I kind of wish that there was one standard size for both types.

4. Series that do not have the numbers on them- When series are not numbered it makes it hard to know what order they are in. I buy a lot of series at book sales, for instance, the Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde and there are versions of the books that are numbered and then those that are not. It became a pain because since I have not read the series yet I didn't actually know the names of every single book in the series (I do now). This is just one example. I wish that they would have the numbers on all series. It really just makes it so much easier. Also, don't start the series and not put numbers and then decide by the third book in to put them in. Ugh.

3. Book series that start out with one perspective and then add more as they go on- There has been one series that has done this that I have read, the Divergent trilogy. Maybe I'm the only one but when Veronica Roth decided to write Allegiant in both Tris's and Four's perspective it made it very obvious to me how the book was going to end. Also, if you can't make the perspectives distinct enough what is even the point of doing this. Again, I have not really read any books that have done this again but this is just annoying to me.

2. Stickers on covers- This is something that I really don't deal with too much anymore because most of the books I get are online or at book sales (sometimes I do find them on these though). I have always hated when there are price stickers or "This is going to be a movie" stickers. They always leave a sticky residue on your book after you pull them off, which then causes all kinds of junk to stick to it. It just really bothers me. The worst times with this though are when the stickers will not come fully off of the book without wrecking it so you have to leave it on the cover.

1. Cover design changes halfway through a series- I have no problem when series get new cover designs after the full series is out, but why do they do it in the middle of the series. The worst case scenario is when every single book has a different cover design. This is for visual reasons mainly for me. No this does not actually affect the content of the book but if I'm going to have these book sitting on a shelf together I kind of want the books to match.

Good example The Diviners series- I mean come on why does each book need another cover. The first was gorgeous. Also, the first two books at least are an example of being different sizes (I don't have the third so I have no clue if that one is).