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What are topics you avoid in books?
By that I mean if you're reading a description what things make you move on?
For me anyone dying or someone getting over a recent death and the mention of unhappy marriages make me not interested in the book.
The only way I will read a book like this is if it's recommended to me several times.
What other things in books do you try to avoid?
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Re: What are topics you avoid in books?
Books where children are abused or are abducted. I have always had a hard time with the topic, but since I've had children of my own it has gotten personal.
There are some exceptions. I read Room by Emma Donoghue because it was so highly recommended. So, I guess I'm like you where the book would have to have lots of stars.
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I stay away from books centering around infidelity in marriage, especially when it's in a positive light. Infidelity in dating, while not okay, doesn't turn me off to the same degree.
I feel uncomfortable with books that come too close to the line of domestic violence, stalking, etc. Somebody sneaking into your room to watch you sleep isn't hot and romantic. It's creepy and dangerous, especially in fiction meant for younger audiences who are still forming their values and boundaries. (The Twilight example popped into my head just now.)
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Wes: 10/8/2012
I don't like child or animal abuse/neglect. Or children dying.
I don't like books that could be mistaken for an episode of Criminal Minds. I get too many nightmares.
I am a sucker for a book that makes me feel. So I do read books that involve animal death, death in general and miscarriage/still birth/pregnancy loss. But I only read these books at the right moment.
Eta- drug use. I can't read books that heavily showcase drug use. It is a big turn off.
I didn't used to have a problem with it, but now I CANNOT handle it.
52 Books in 2014??
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I avoid this too.
Also, anything with an animal main character - I just never enjoy them.
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Books read in 2011: 111
Books read in 2012: 100
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I also tend to not like really girly books. Like, Lifetime move type books are not my style at all. So maybe it's fair to say I try to avoid "women's issues" generally.
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“You can have your wishes, your plans, but at the end of the day, it's out of your control"
- Gayle Forman
"People talk about escapism as if it's a bad thing... Once you've escaped, once you come back, the world is not the same as when you left it. You come back to it with skills, weapons, knowledge you didn't have before. Then you are better equipped to deal with your current reality."
- Neil Gaiman
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If I can anticipate a sad ending (ie book about cancer, dogs) I won't bother to read it unless it has been recommended to me a billion times (John Green books).
I am not at all interested if the protagonist is going to cheat on their spouse.
I don't really like crime novels.
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My read shelf:
student/teacher affairs
Abuse of any kind. Child death. Animal death. Pregnancy loss. Cheating.
“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to."
"I don't much care where –"
"Then it doesn't matter which way you go.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
Horror
Religion
Self Help
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Death of a spouse or child.
Books read in 2010: 153
Books read in 2011: 160
Books read in 2012: 134
Books read in 2013: 110
Books read in 2014: 151
Books read in 2015: 153
Books read in 2016: 31