Stop the blurb

[@margarethaines9310]

It has been amusing to see how your book shelves have grown since your first video 🙂. My best book recommendations come from BookTubers, like you.

[@becomingabookworm]

Thanks! I love to see my shelves evolving. Sometimes I wish I SAS moving somewhere so I could curate them from the start again 😅

[@LunaciaBooks]

I agree, the quotes mostly annoy me too! Back in the days as a book blogger, I had quotes from my blog in books. It felt weird, to be honest with you. And, yes, I don't care about what famous people think either.

[@becomingabookworm]

I think that sounds kind of cool that people wanted your quotes, but I get what you mean..

[@laurafagan5524]

Sometimes I look at the different publishers emblem printed on the book jacket on the spine of the book(s) as I am browsing the shelves. I have found some interesting finds this way. 📚

[@becomingabookworm]

That is one option. I feel there is a learning curve, but now at least I know more what to expect from the different publishers.

[@biankakoettlitz6979]

maybe they just like a fancy paper giving a 'reviwreview /quote' Happy and great eastern😀 I hope you're enjoying them in your cabin .

[@becomingabookworm]

Maybe! Thanks! Happy easter too you too :)

[@books_and_bocadillos]

😂. I agree 💯

[@elvennthegrey2678]

I just skip the blurbs... Ok, I'll pay attention to a rec from a favourite author (I can imagine reading a book endorsed by Murakami), but I feel most blurbs are either too generic or from a friend/associate of the author/publisher (I've even found a few being somewhat misleading). I'd rather pick a book based on a good spoiler-free synopsis, though I'm finding more and more books with only blurbs on the back, where you have to go hunt for the book description inside the book or on the flaps.

[@biankakoettlitz6979]

When I read books, now I only read Kindle, I chose books by titles,which interested me, authors, I liked before, or by reading the first sentences, if I was hooked, I bought it.

[@becomingabookworm]

I feel like the good spoiler-free book is all we are all looking for.. The fact that books now are only blurbs makes me believe that they must think they sell more of them this way, but I don’t understand that it could be the case..

[@OhioEddieBlack]

Blurbs are a big deal for a newer author if they can get a popular author to do a blurb for their cover, but I agree - they are mostly pointless for the reader. Also, only tangentially related, but I work with not one but 2 people who say "blurp" instead of "blurb." As in, "hey Eddie, do you have that blurp we send clients when the want to know what our privacy policy is?" 🤦‍♀ One is my boss, so I'm not about to correct her. It's painful though in meetings 😄

[@becomingabookworm]

That is a really good point. I see how this would be important for them. Is there a logical reason for why they pronounce it like that? We have some words and expressions in Norwegian that gets used in all the wrong places and it is indeed maddening..

[@OhioEddieBlack]

@@becomingabookworm America is full of people who say all kinds of words incorrectly - it's probably the same in every country. I worked in a popular coffee shop and customers would ask for "expresso" instead of espresso. The worst part was, every single person who worked there said it wrong too. How do you work every day in a coffee shop and mispronounce espresso?? This included the manager! I used to over-pronounce it obnoxiously like esssssspresso hoping they would catch on but I just ended up sounding like I was speaking Parseltongue and it didn't help at all.

[@PageTurnersWithKatja]

😂 i think all my book reviews for famous authors should from now on use your final quote, and I'll just remove Murakami and *insert author name* as appropriate.

[@becomingabookworm]

Haha! Do it! I do think I have more books in my shelf with that specific quote on them..