Top Ten Tuesday: Unpopular Bookish Opinions

• Old books smell like vomit.
  I don’t understand why, but if you find an old book in the library that hasn’t been checked out in a good long while and you take a big whiff, you’ll definitely smell vomit. I’m convinced the glue must break down and start stinking.
• Trilogies are the worst.
  I’ll start a trilogy and love the first book, but then the second or third book becomes a HUGE disappointment. Every. Single. Time.
• Sometimes the movie is better.
  I’m looking at you Crazy Rich Asians. It doesn’t happen often, but it does happen.
• All reading is good reading.
  I hate this time of year when teachers start sending home assigned reading and making sure kids read “real” books – not graphic novels or audiobooks, but real chapter books. It’s all good reading!
• It’s okay to make notes, dog-ear pages, and underline.
  I personally don’t do this (because I borrow so much from the library), but I’m not offended if other people do.
• Book suggestions come with a lot of pressure.
  Anytime someone suggests a book or lends me a title, I push off reading it for sooooo long. I want to like it as much as they did and am always worried about not enjoying it.
• I won’t finish it if I don’t like it.
  I used to have to finish every title I started, but I have since learned that there are WAY too many books in this world to spend time reading something I don’t enjoy.
• Literary fiction is often overrated.
  I hated almost everything we had to read in school and don’t really enjoy literary fiction or classics. There are some amazing titles being published every year that I would love to see become classics.
• I read physical and digital books.
  I’m not an either/or reader – I prefer to read physical books, but I love my eReader when I’m traveling. It makes it so much easier to travel – lightens the load and allows me access to a HUGE library.

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish and now hosted by The Artsy Reader Girl.