TGIF is a Friday meme hosted by Ginger at Greads. She always has the best questions.
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When I was a superficial teen, I had a checklist for guys on appearance. Hair first, preferably black and tons of it, eyes next, blue or dark brown and completely sultry please, and then the last the ass it has to be completely grabbable. Yep, see superficial.
Then I got married to a balding man who is now almost completely bald and I wouldn’t trade him even for Damon Salvatore, but has my reading choices gotten any less superficial? (Not that Damon isn’t on my cheating list. You know the list of 5 guys that you can cheat with and the hubby has to be okay with it.)
Nope! Not at all. I’m in love with graphic design. I’m in love with typography, photo manipulation, and illustration. So if there is an ugly cover I simply will not pick it up. You have to seriously beat me over the head with it’s awesomeness for me to even give it a chance and then I will only keep the book in ebook form. A book that is like that for me?
Ugh, it’s horrible! I mean from the blurry almost indecphirable people walking into a tree, and the how dark the entire cover is, and the fake 3d title in a dreadful font, and just ugh, it’s just so bad. So until I was almost out of books and everyone was telling me how amazing it was I didn’t even pick it up. It sat on the bottom of my bookcase for MONTHS. By the way, it’s just as awesome if not more so than everyone was telling me.
Listopia is my friend. I use it all the time. I’ll have an idea of something I want to read. 2012, fierce female, werewolves, whatever I go to Listopia and look through until I find a book that my friends have reviewed favorably. I never comment on reviews at Goodreads (shameful I know), but it is the main place I read them and all my bloggy friends are the only ones I read.
Twitter has a large sway over me. I have people I go to if I need a rec. If I want a contemp I go directly to @basicallybooks or @greadsbooks, if I want a werewolf book (my current obession) I go to @rabidreads, and I stalk @isabooksoulmate and @BookwormAsheley to see what they enjoyed.
What MUST a book have for me to read it? Romance elements, 16+ FMC (ETA: Female Main Character), and something unusual, but mainly someone I trust has to tell me it’s amazing. That’s about it.
I request books from my library walk in and take those and don't look around. I hate the actual physical library. It's full of lots of things that annoy me to no end. My library trips take a total of 5 minutes.
Is there a book that I should read? Do covers sway you at all?
RieI'm a wife, student, and a dog-lover who reads when I should be folding laundry (bane of my existance), I write (rarely as academic papers consume my life), and love getting wrapped up in fiction.
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What's 16+ FMC? Covers are a major factor. I've been known to walk past awesome books because didn't like their cover. I won't even check out the blurb if i don't like the cover. Hangs head.
ReplyDeleteI got inspiration to read a book from the cover (anything interesting & eye-catching - even if it's a bad design), title, summary, bloggers reviews! I don't even think my books have much in common as I read a wide variety.
ReplyDeleteI always, always, always pick up a book because of its cover or title. For the most part, covers are what get our attention in bookstores and libraries - so it's always great when a publisher makes an extra effort to make sure they look good :)
ReplyDeleteI usually pick up a book because of its cover too. I'm drawn to pretty covers. It's funny because I love high fantasy, but most high fantasy covers ARE THE WORST! So, if I hadn't read those before, I probably wouldn't pick many of them up.
ReplyDeleteI do the same thing at the library! The only time I'm not walking straight to the reserve shelf is when I want something and they actually have it. Happy Friday!
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Oh, I agree with you on Twitter, a ton of good book titles get floated around in there. :) And same here, I don't usually browse the actual library; I just go to pick up holds.
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Cover, characters, plot are all things that draw me in. I do make up my own mind if it is a new to me author and since joining book blogging community in 2009 my wishing to read as well as books on my shelves and eReader are a mind boggling amount.
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ReplyDeleteI don't even look around the library so I wouldn't know. Seriously it's like a mad dash from my car to reserve shelf to self-checkout to getting the heck out of there.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was 12 (ish) I wanted to read supernatural things and had no clue where to start so I picked up a high fantasy book. A) the cover was like the WORST B) that plot was the weirdest thing ever. Now I stay far as possible from High Fantasy as possible.
ReplyDeleteI simply DO NOT understand publishers who do not put in the money for the art department. It is so important.
ReplyDeleteI wish my reading tastes were a bit more varied!
ReplyDeleteFMC is Female Main Character. Sorry, writer speak.
ReplyDeleteI'm so with you about the covers. So important!
Haha! I most certainly giggled through this post because I agreed with almost everything! I am totally superficial when it comes to books. Who wants to look at a silly cover? BUT I have also read some pretty dang spectacular books that had sucky covers. There is just no fool-proof formula yet!
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