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Literary pet peeves

In this post: Booking Through Thursday and Thursday Thirteen Bookish Sarah asks: What are your literary “pet peeves”? Put too many swear words in a story and I lose interest. Too much cursing sounds like limited vocabulary, stunted creativity. The other one is something I have experienced for the first time - a novel with an unlikeable character . The Wise Woman is my first Philippa Gregory. If I wasn't fond of historical fiction (besides thinking that Gregory is brilliant at her genre) I wouldn't have minded not finishing the book. The heroine is so unlikeable almost every page developed in me a distaste of her that even her death in the conclusion didn't convince me it redeemed her. I want my reading experience (outside work) to be a pleasure; not characters that I don't enjoy.   Thursday 13: Unusual words that begin with letter N You may be familiar with or have encountered the following words already. If you do not know what they mean, I hope you have as much fun