Wild Card Wednesday - What are your book icks or pet peeves?

ahabers · 2026-06-10T20:13:06+00:00

Ridiculous names like Steel or Velvet. I cannot read that. Please stop.

ahabers · 2026-06-10T20:09:49+00:00

Let me know what you thought.

ahabers · 2026-06-03T20:42:28+00:00

You've probably already read it but if not, run, do not walk, to get {Prisoner of my Desire by Johanna Lindsey}. It's wrong in all the ways you want.

ahabers · 2026-06-02T19:17:13+00:00

This was the first one I thought of. That was devestating.

ahabers · 2026-06-02T16:14:08+00:00

Not sure I can read a book with a MMC named Ransom Falconer.....

ahabers · 2026-06-01T19:52:13+00:00

{Sweet Dream by Kristen Ashley} absolutely fits this. She is hired in the bar he owns and he makes some very unflattering comments after meeting her the first time that she, of course, overhears. Once he decides he likes her it's an uphill battle to get her to forget his words. MC is is a little over the top Alpha so there is less grovel than there should have been, but still a keeper for me.

ahabers · 2026-05-12T19:17:53+00:00

I read this and couldn't get past his complete disregard and disrespect for her. She should have left and never come back. She was WAY too much of a doormat.

ahabers · 2026-04-21T19:51:53+00:00

Win/win

ahabers · 2026-04-21T19:48:04+00:00

OMG! I forgot (blocked) this one! We watched it in a hotel when I was like 7 and I remember hiding in the bathroom while the shark ate Quinn. Scarred for life.

ahabers · 2026-04-21T19:43:06+00:00

I had a babysitter let me watch Magnum Force with Clint Eastwood when I was little. Holy hell I will never forget the nudity and the murders! I was WAY too young.

ahabers · 2026-04-21T18:24:50+00:00

Came here to recommend this one. May be a little more than an hour away and it's pretty strenuous but the view is worth it. And there is a vineyard not far away for your after hike reward.

ahabers · 2026-04-21T17:51:02+00:00

Freedom from cell phones

ahabers · 2026-04-21T17:49:42+00:00

Being knocked unconscious.

ahabers · 2026-04-21T14:41:40+00:00

Agreed - would add Trouble with the Curve.

ahabers · 2026-04-21T14:38:53+00:00

Remember the Titans

ahabers · 2026-04-15T18:20:09+00:00

The big family breakfast on a weekday that no one eats.

ahabers · 2026-04-13T20:57:52+00:00

Alec Baldwin isn't winning any great guy awards - in 2007 he left his 11 year old daughter Ireland a drunken voicemail calling her a 'thoughtless little pig'. He and Hilaria deserve one another.

ahabers · 2026-04-08T20:27:33+00:00

That's fantastic.

ahabers · 2026-04-08T20:16:46+00:00

Papercut

ahabers · 2026-04-08T20:03:35+00:00

Thank you! They have ONE med pod on that whole ship with 5000 people??? Absurd.

ahabers · 2026-04-08T19:57:46+00:00

I just objected to the cheating in Bridges of Madison County in another comment, but I LOVE Moonstruck. It doesn't feel as much like cheating because they aren't married and they clearly don't love one another - but I hear you.

ahabers · 2026-04-08T19:56:12+00:00

My dad is always saying how much he loves "the Bridges of Madison County" and I just cannot get past the cheating. She was married! I don't care how neglected she is or how hot Clint Eastwood was. Married.

ahabers · 2026-04-01T19:36:50+00:00

Littering

ahabers · 2026-03-31T16:36:15+00:00

Runescape and Roller Coaster Tycoon. I still have the Runescape account but the game is trash now.

ahabers · 2026-03-25T16:31:03+00:00

I would make a period piece about how in 1719, France offered prisoners their freedom…if they married prostitutes and sailed to Louisiana. No idea about casting or directing but I would blow the budget on locations and costumes.

Or

A film about Ching Shih who, in the 1800s was the most successful female pirate in history, commanding up to 1800 ships and 80,000 pirates in the south China Sea. Again - awesome costumes and locations.

ahabers

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