Today's assignment from Parajunkee is to list book blogger pet peeves. I'm not sure if I can think of ten book blogger pet peeves, but here are a few:
- Silly typos. Not proofreading. I know that everyone makes the occasional mistake, but at least use spell check to catch the obvious ones! It's hard to take a review seriously if it is rife with mistakes.
- When book reviews mention this is a book in a series, but don't list the other books in that series.
- When a blog posts only spotlights, memes, books tours, etc. and very few reviews. Nothing makes me stop following more quickly.
- When reviewers summarize the entire book in great detail, but don't give any personal opinion except "it was good." I need to know if you liked it or not, and WHY.
- When reviewers quote from ARCs. I've never received an ARC that didn't ask me NOT to quote from it. Only quote from the original. I see this violated all the time! (And I am SOOOO tempted sometimes.)
- CAPTCHA. Try removing it. Just TRY it. You'll see -- it's not that bad! Use comment moderation, if you are that worried about it. And for heaven's sake, why would you use BOTH?
That's all I can come up with now. For the most part, I think bloggers are great people who try to do what is correct, have fun, and help each other out.
#3, #4, #6 yes! And I am guilty of #2 - I guess I need to fix that.
ReplyDeleteI do agree with all your points. Typos are in my list as well (I mean those that I put under the "Spelling 2.0" category - not so much the occasional mistakes).
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When reviewers summarize the entire book in great detail, but don't give any personal opinion except "it was good."
Pointless, isn't it? :)
Here's my list.
BTW - I'm a grown up woman too, but YA is my not-so-secret guilty pleasure :).
I'm guilty of #2 - I used to list out all the other books, but a lot of my series starting being REALLY long (like Morganville Vampires...) so I figured enough was enough. Maybe I'll start linking to the Goodreads list of the series?
ReplyDeleteYes, I know some series get really long. Perhaps just a link to the series page on Amazon or Goodreads...
DeleteI specially agree with the point about captcha - it's very annoying.
ReplyDeleteAnd I'm kind of guilty of #3 - I don't post reviews - simply because I love reading, but hate writing reviews. So, my blog is mostly about finding cool bookish stuff.
Rosa @ Bookish Findings
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I completely agree with the typos and would add grammar to my list as well but I didn't think of it at the time. Being a teacher, it just bothers me when people make a lot of errors in their reviews and posts. A few are fine... no one is perfect, but please proofread. :)
ReplyDeleteI am also guilty of not listing all of the books in the series. I always mention which book it is and the name of the series but I never thought to list all of the titles. Thank you for mentioning that. Food for thought.
Laura
So guilty of #2... now I feel like I ought to fix my posts... I think my plugin at least lets you click on the series to hopefully find my other reviews though.. that is helpful?
ReplyDeleteI think I post too many reviews - 3-5 a week. Or maybe that's good. I like my memes, it helps me network and I think sometimes people get sick of reviews and want something different. Great list though, a lot of them annoy me that didn't make my own list.
My Pet Peeves
As far as I'm concerned, the more reviews the better. I try to do 3 per week. Reviews are my favorite things to read. Maybe I'm not in the majority, though. Having a link to the series is fine, I think. I just know sometimes I've had a devil of a time finding the books in the series and the order they go in!
DeleteGreat list, and I totally share your pet peeves! I'm guilty of #2. Sometimes I'll mention one or two books in the series, but I never methodically cover all the series books. I think #6 is probably my biggest pet peeves and leads to me losing patience with commenting and moving on. Captcha is something that needs to go the way of the dodo asap. :-)
ReplyDeleteI do number 5 for my Sentence Sneak Peek feature but I make sure to say that it's an ARC that I read (I'm pretty sure it's okay to do as long as you're not claiming that it's from the final book.)
ReplyDeleteCapcha yes it is so very annoying and I can never read what they say.
I'm afraid that I'm definitely guilty of #2. I usually list the series title itself but not every other book in the series. I don't think it's necessary, though I do mention book 1 most of the time?
ReplyDeleteOtherwise, I completely agree with your pet peeves list. Some of them are on my list too haha. I guess we're all fed up of the same stuff!
- Farhana @ Digesting The Words
Mentioning book 1 helps. I'd just like a link to a list of the books in the order they go in. I know sometimes if it's a long series, it isn't practical to list them all, but I just don't want to have to work to hard to find out the order of the books in the series.
Delete#2 is great, Annette. I'll keep that in mind. I'm going to double check I review that will be posting soon to make sure all 7 books in the series are listed in order!
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