Frustrating Books Tag | Bookish Things That Bother Me SO MUCH

Prepare to be frustrated, because I’m doing the frustrating books tag and talking about all the little bookish things that really bother me!

I’m tagging

----- Books Mentioned -----

Central Station by Lavie Tidhar
Valhalla by Tom Holt
The Flame by Leonard Cohen
Book of Longing by Leonard Cohen
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie
2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson
Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City by K. J. Parker

----- Questions -----
00:00 Frustrating Books Tag
0:35 1. Name a book you predicted would be five stars but wasn’t.
1:38 2. What book had a great beginning but an ending that let you down?
2:13 3. Do you have a book with a pretty cover but an ugly spine?
3:35 4. Do you have a book series that doesn’t match? Maybe some are paperback and some are hardcover, or maybe the cover designs were changed halfway through the series… Does it bother you?
4:34 5. Is there a book from your youth you can remember parts of but cannot remember the name of or find anywhere?
5:32 6. Are there any books you’re certain you’ve read but cannot remember anything about?
6:14 7. Have you ever recommended a book you love to someone and they started telling you everything they don’t like about it? Does it bother you? In other words: do your feelings get hurt when someone doesn’t love one of your favorite books?
7:21 8. What is your worst experience loaning a book to someone?
8:02 9. Show me some of your impulse buys that you’ve never read. You know the ones… the ones you bought at midnight while online shopping or when you were walking through a bookstore and the magic of all the books made you grab a few too many. And we can’t forget all those books at “such a good price” that somehow make it into our shopping bags.
10:08 10. Just to make you hate me a little bit more: How many unread books are on your shelves?

----- Credits -----

Music is Santa Teresa by Patiño

----- Other Places You Can Follow Me/My Reading -----

#BookTag #booktube

[meghanthestorygirl]

That fashion plate book from when you were a kid sounds amazing!

[KatieReadsRants]

Oh this is going to be fun! I’m stacking up tag videos and stuff for after my surgery so this will definitely be happening.

[AmritabytheBook]

I had to laugh when you were describing Slaughterhouse Five because is ME about so many books.
Tom Holt sitting at home, rubbing his hands and cackling with glee about putting one over his h8ers 😂

[GunpowderFictionPlot]

Slaughterhouse Five is totally a book you can reread when you know what happens... But it's probably better if you don't.

[HeyYallListenUp]

I for one appreciate that it takes you longer to do a tag video than it does me. I think it's cool that you bought Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City because you thought it was a non-fiction about siege warfare.

[NerdyNatReads]

ha, glad you did this one!! Okay, yeah, that box set is weird af 💀your unread number gives ME anxiety 😂

[potatobrarian]

I am behind on tags AND watching Booktube vids and I haven't filmed anything in 2 weeks. Ah, life.

I know I read both Slaughterhouse Five and Rebecca, but seem to remember like one scene only from each?

16 Ways To Defend A Walled City is one of the books I was really excited to read this year!

[sunnyluca]

Oooh, I already look forward to doing this one! It will probably be February before it happens (you're not the only one who takes a while getting to tag videos, lol!), but I think it's going to be a lot of fun. Thanks for tagging me! :)

It would drive me mad if the books in a boxset didn't match! What's even the point of the boxset then?

[jeremyfee]

Great video. Not frustrating at all to watch. The cover/spine question reminded me of when I went on my "rant" about To Sleep in A Sea of Stars not having the title on the spine. It's just the author's name real big. How weird is that? Also, my mind is now spinning trying to remember what books I've forgotten from my childhood. Peace!

[veryliterarykari]

This video wasn’t frustrating; I thought it was quite lovely! 🙂 Why do a box set if the spines aren’t going to match? I have so many books I “read” but don’t remember, so if that’s your only one you’re doing okay! 👌

[JesstheBookFreak]

You're way ahead of me in doing tags. I got tagged awhile ago and I'm so behind on tags. LOL. There are so many books that I read that I can't remember. Makes me feel like I'm not good at reading if I can't remember some of them! I want to read Slaughterhouse Five someday.

[thelibrarianofalexandria]

Havent done it. It looks fun.
I would say it frustrates me when a friendship "always" turns into love. I want more books where friends stay friends all the way.

[JoLovesToRead]

Ooo thanks Rosie ☺️ I’m glad nobody has damaged or lost one of your books 😄

[bethannebruninga-socolar]

That fashion plates book sounds so amazing! Thanks for tagging me. :) Some of these questions require some thought! I'm not immediately sure what my answer will be for some of these.

[LanaExLibris]

I think it's so funny how you're frustrated about "Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City " and every time you mention it I get so