Happy Tuesday! (Almost) every Tuesday at around this time, I participate in The Broke and the Bookish‘s Top Ten Tuesday weekly meme. Last week’s theme was Top 1o terms that make me not want to pick up a book, and I’m finding it infinitely more interesting than this week’s theme. So I’m counting down from number ten..

I love this concept in theory. Notwithstanding, I tend to get confused whenever time travel is involved. I mean, I’m even cringing to see the next Wolverine movie, and I’m a huge fan. Let’s just stick to Einstein’s theory of relativity, okay? Unless a rocket that travels faster than the speed of light is involved, I’m not interested. But I’ll get to sci-fi later.

International athletic academies are not my favourite settings. I have nothing against those settings, per se, it’s just that they interfere with my I-won’t-exercise-unless-chased-by-an-ax-murderer state of mind. I much prefer to be lazy in peace.

Shakespeare’s done it; Elton John’s done it; Jame’s Cameron’s done it. Can we please stop now? This theme is getting a little abused. I get it, love transcends all–except my distaste, that is.

This is a bit of a risky age group. Also, I feel that I’m too old for it. I think I’ll just stick to YA for now.

Confession: I’m not a sci-fi fan. I don’t like aliens or space travel or wormholes. Now, give me a nice bubonic plague, for instance, and I’m in. Funny how that works.

The next Twilight. The next Hunger Games. The next huge disappointment. See also The Inheritor of the ___ Throne.

I wish these suckers had fallen a little harder. And, you know, not survived.

Romance is cute. Love triangles, on the other hand? Not so much. Once again, this theme is getting a little too abused.

I think I may be a little prejudiced on this one. The only books featuring a guy’s point of view that I’ve ever really liked stem from the masterminds of Rick Riordan and John Green. Even James Dashner couldn’t sway me. Maybe it’s because I can’t seem to relate to a boy’s perspective. It also really irks me when women write books from a guy’s point of view, like in Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl. I’m pretty sure that Ethan wouldn’t notice Lena’s wearing a Marilyn Monroe-style dress and gorgeous lip gloss, guys, unless he has some serious unconfronted issues. Which, then again, may be the case.

Now this just wants to make me poke love with a sharp stick and see what happens. Or maybe join a theater troupe just to speak these words with the proper dramatic intonation, and then poke love with a sharp stick. Again: I think that Fallen by Lauren Kate has scarred me for life.  As if magical schools and possessive fallen angel boyfriends weren’t enough, there’s also the whole reincarnation thing. Awful, horrible, terrible book. Although ranting about it isn’t so bad.

I’ll keep you posted,