“Collect books!” they said. “It’ll be fun!” they said.
Well they lied and they’re probably laughing right now. Because honestly, when I traverse into the leafy earthy forests to gather books * amongst the roots and mushrooms, I expect to have a good time. Instead I get very attacked by the difficulties that are BOOKS THEMSELVES. They seem bent on me having a hard time. This is unreasonable??? What did I do to deserve this?? I am a good person??
I mean I’m a good person except for that one time when I couldn’t find a bookmark so I put the book open and face down on my bed. It was only for a few minutes but — I guess we’re all monsters on the inside.
Today I want to talk about books that have taken it open themselves to stress my delicate constitution. The actual physical book. Not the insides. Not the words. The rude book itself. Look I’m here to make friends, collect beautiful tomes, and fill my world with piles of books and cupcake crumbs. WHY YOU GOTTA MAKE THINGS SO HARD FOR ME. **
* THIS IS HOW YOU DO IT, RIGHT????
** I got called dramatic once, but some people exaggerate obviously.
I’m also linking up with Top Ten Tuesday for their prompt “books you had a hard time with” and look, people, LOOK. I’m actually genuinely doing the prompt PROPERLY!!! I’M SO EXCITED FOR ME. I also don’t really know who I am anymore right now!! Nice!!
Although to be fair, I think the prompt wanted me to talk about books I struggled with but ended up loving but I’VE DONE THAT, so check out those posts too below if you can’t get enough of me.
Which obviously you can never have enough of Paper Fury. *
* Why are you fleeing the country???? I thought we talked about this.
1. A GATHERING OF SHADOWS & A CONJURING OF LIGHT
Now I love love looooove these books SO FREAKING MUCH that I had to collect the hardcovers. Had to. The need burned my soul. Yes well apparently I can’t have nice things.
BASIC SUMMARY OF THE SITUATION.
Me: I shall buy the hardcovers even though they are very very very expensive.
Universe: Here is A Conjuring Of Light for you THE SPINE IS TOTALLY TORN.
Me: why–
Universe: And here is A Gathering of Shadows for you YOUR COPY JUST HAPPENS TO BE MISPRINTED SO IT’S NOT CENTRED.
Me: what the heck did i do to you
I at least got a replacement of ACOL but AGOS is forever in my life: UNCENTERED.
2. WONDER WOMAN: WARBRINGER
Okay but first LOOK HOW PRETTY IT IS. Some books are pretty but this book is PRETTY and if you think the all caps doesn’t make a difference — shhhh. You’re wrong. Also my copy arrived in the Illumicrate book box which I 500% RECOMMEND (I also have a discount code fyi of “CAIT10” which you can put in checkout and get 10% off — just to self promo myself there most splendidly) and has red stained pages!!!
It’s a good book, humans, it’s a very good book.
But obviously not without dramatic tragedy because HELLO. It’s me. *
So firstly, the font is super tiny. And I am apparently a 23 year old grandmother and you have me squinting at your tiny font you’re going to end up with me weeping like a piteous kitten in the background. And then, I suppose I can’t blame the book for this, but everyone kEPT INTERRUPTING ME. I literally sat down to read the book and every. single. time, I got about 2 pages and I had to put it down again.
Look cities have been burned down for less. I am the fury dragon queen. How do people not know this. **
* Feel free to keep singing. I won’t judge.
** TOTAL CALL OUT TO MY FAMILY, WHO I AM PUBLICLY SHAMING. Also my dog. Also the weather. Also the clock. Also my stomach that got hungry when I got to a good bit.
3. ALL MY PERCY JACKSON BOOKS OF EVER
I’ve talked about my Riordan collection woes before but like…the stars haven’t aligned to fix them yet. (This seems like bad customer service.) And I’m still frequently looking up and shouting, “WHY? JUST WHY.” Because NOTHING MATCHES. The only ones that match are my boxset of the first series but like both my Apollo books are different editions. My Magnus Chases are different sizes. My heart is in 7 pieces so heck. Why don’t I just go ahead and build a horcrux.
I’M BROKEN ANYWAY.
4. TITHE
I have so so many problems with sites that sell books + advertise a specific cover = SEND YOU SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT. This was a second hand site, but excuse me, false advertising is still not okay.
So they told me I’d get the cover on the right but SENT THE ONE ON THE LEFT. Which is actually a heinous crime against humanity and an insult to eyeballs everywhere.
I actually had a lovely friend gift me the copy that would match the other two in the trilogy I already had though! After I burned my eyeballs to purge them of the sight of the older one.
5. THE WINNER’S KISS
FUN FURY STORY TIME: So I was on the blog tour for this and it was a lovely blog tour for a series I highly adore. But because the Australian Post has a vendetta against me — my copy of the finale book would. not. come.
I think the post office was reading them. The publisher ended up sending three out, and I only barely scrapped getting a single one before my tour date. And we’re talking WEEKS of books being missing.
I hope you HAD A GOOD TIME READING THEM, FREAKING POST OFFICE.
6. A GAME OF THRONES
I’ve had SUCH a difficult time with this series, I honestly am beginning to think it’s taken personal offence to me. Is it like my hair or something?? Because it’s not as fabulous as Jon Snow’s??? Well sorry. Accept me for who I am.
But let’s have a quick rundown on all the ways these books made me miserable:
- Firstly the audio for book one had a SCRATCH IN IT. Yes. And you know in which scene? A pivotal scene where Ned Stark is deciding whether to
throw away his lifego serve as the King’s Hand. So one minute he’s like “Hey dear Catelyn, we need to talk about this” and then the audio was like “LOL @ YOU WANTING TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS” did a massive scene jump and then suddenly we’re off to King’s Landing????? I still haven’t a clue if they fought, were chill over it, or what made him decide. - Then you see my copy of Storm of Swords? It’s a library sale reject. I cannot for the LIFE OF ME get the library sticker barcode off it. I’m covering it with flowers and tears.
- And let’s go back to complaining about the audio because the NARRATOR IS ON MY BLACK LIST. Look when you’re narrating an extremely long and complex series there are rules. And rule #1 is = if you’re going to give people accents DO NOT FRIKKIN’ MIX THEM UP. I’m sorry I’m very worked up over this. It’s nearly been 2 years and I’m still damaged because in the finale book he swapped everyone’s accents around and I was so so so so confused. Cersei and Tyrion shared the same voice and that was heckin’ confusing. Ayra and Dany kept swapping between each other’s tones. And then he’d “swap them back to the right voice” MID-CHAPTER. I just???? I mean, do you hate me and how I have no physical book on hand, JUST the audios to go off???? DO YOU WISH ME DEAD AS A STARK.
7. SIMON VS THE HOMO SAPIENS AGENDA
I read this book firstly via a library audio and it was GREAT. So much enjoyment!! And then a few months later I won a copy from a blogger x a handwritten note from Becky Albertalli and Simon himself! Like SQUEEEE, right?!????
Well.
No, Cait.
Look all I’m going to say is that if you offer a giveaway — you need to send the book. It’s frustrating, disappointing, and rude otherwise! I would usually not follow up because #super #anti #confrontation but I reeeally wanted this one. Least to say it took SIX MONTHS before I got my copy and there was no handwritten note.
8. THE NAME OF THE WIND
There is no true photo of this, so just imagine a pile of wind chasing chaff through your hands: BECAUSE THAT’S WHAT HAPPENED TO ME. I guess it’s aesthetic? But I am not here for aesthetic??? I just want a functional book, thanks??
THE FUN FURY STORY: I found a copy for $3 at a second hand story and YAY! I love this book! So I dutifully took it to the counter, paid my $3 nice dollars, turned around and
I think it was only held together by the dark magic of the store and as soon as human hands held it — GOODBYE WORLD. It literally fell apart in my hands.
Hey but at least they gave me that precious $3 back but I wanted that book. Gee.
9. THE BOOK THIEF
I read this years ago and always wanted a copy and LUCKY ME found one at a library sale. It was a red cover and not one I wanted per se, but it’s a copy!! This is great news!! Death is in my life!! *
Lucky me….hahaha…silly.
So obviously the very next week they had out another copy that was YES the edition I wanted but also YES it was falling apart in my hands because good things come to Cait perfectly never.
ME, TRYING TO GET MY LIFE TOGETHER.
I mean, I still bought it for 50 cents, because otherwise it probably would’ve been binned and I’m a book saviour but for goodness sakes why is it so hard for me to have nice things.
* I REALISE HOW THAT SOUNDS. BUT IN CONTEXT OF THE BOOK, IT’S OK.
10. JUST ALL THE BOOK TITLES OF EVER OK.
This is just going to be a last hurrah and blatant call-out to all the titles that have messed with my fragile life. I think maybe I should blame me for some of these because apparently I’m about as literate as an fruit tree. But look they gave me a hard time, so ON THE LIST THEY GO:
- QUEEN OF GEEKS: I spent 67% of my time recommending people read “Queen Of The Geeks.” Everyone was confused. Several national tragedies occured because of it.
- SHADOW AND BONE vs DAUGHTER OF SMOKE AND BONE: I legit picked up DOSAB thinking it was about Russia. It was not. Why do they insist on being so similar.
- STRANGE THE DREAMER: Just put it in an acronym and you see why we have trouble.
- DENTON LITTLE’S DEATH DATE: I swear it was Denton’s Little Death Date. Mine is cuter.
- LEARNING TO SWEAR IN AMERICA: I thought it was Learning To Swear In American. And mine makes more sense since Americans clearly don’t speak English because they don’t even know what a bunyip is.
- THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS: this obviously ended up as The Girl With All The GIFs for me. Nobody ever knows what I’m talking about.
- THE GREAT LIBRARY SERIES: Which are great books and I love them but what are the titles? Ink and Paper? Fire and Quill? Ink and Ash? Ink and Quill? Firey Ink and Quill In the Paper? COULD SOMEONE MABYE DO ME UP SOME FLASHCARDS. I NEED HELP.
- GEMINA: Okay this one is actually shout out to my mum who was helping me pack my books to move and swore the title was “Jemima” which is also the name of my sister. I’m just putting this here because it amuses me and I took 99 YEARS trying to figure out what she meant when she’s like “It’s nice you have a book named after your sister!” And I’m just….so so so confused.
Okay wow hopefully my family doesn’t read this post because I spent most of it mocking them.
I HATE it when I buy a book and the book is faulty!!! My Nevernight hardcover pages were not cut though and I had to tear them apart, literally. Still sobbing about that as I am rereading it before today’s release of Godsgrave 🙁
Also, it is a pet peeve of mine when the books in a series are all different sizes or fonts on the covers or the people on the cover LOOK NOTHING like the people in the book. Authors give descriptions – follow them!!! Just looking at those Percy Jackson books that look like a city of skyscrapers next to each other makes me want to throttle Rick & the publishers!!!
*sends cupcakes
Omg that’s HORRIBLE. 😫😥😫😥 I mean, I love ordering online for the ease of it, but books so often come messed up. I almost always get hardcovers dented and stuff. I’m still trying to figure out HOW THE HECK they printed the entire A Gathering of Shadows cover mis-aligned. Like how hard is this people’s. We’re paying good money for these books.😫
MISMATCHED SERIES ARE TAKING YEARS OFF MY LIFE.
“or the people on the cover LOOK NOTHING like the people in the book. Authors give descriptions – follow them!!!”
^ THIS THIS THIS for a MILLION BILLION YEARS
“GEMINA: Okay this one is actually shout out to my mum who was helping me pack my books to move and swore the title was “Jemima” .”
You know Cait, I’m not a fan of sci-fi at all, but I’m going to read this series now. A book possibly being named after me = perfect.
It’s so good. I also thought it was Gemima for a while though 🙈
OMG YOUR FULL NAME IS JEMIMA TOO? YOU ARE MY SISTER’S LONG LOST TWIN. HELLO. 😂😂 Also Gemina is a fabulous book. Even if it’s not really called Jemima at all.
Omg, Cait, this was so hard to read.. YOU HAVE SUFFERED SO! It is a sin books have been so rough on you.
I love when I am working when you are due to post – it is a nice pick me up at the end of my shift (I usually get the email notificationa round 630am, and my shift is 8pm – 8am..)… the downside though is I am quite addled with sleepiness, so sometimes I struggle with my thoughts.
I am sure I confuse book titles all the time, because I am awful with all names and titles and such (anatomy was a particularly challenging course for me… names in latin. yeesh.)
I can’t think of any online shopping mishaps… I once got super excited about a book in a shop, though, and the line at the shop was long, so by the time I got to the cash I had been waiting some time with this book and THEN I realized it wasn’t the book I thought it was. Bought it anyway because well I couldn’t deal with being all “oops, stood here for nothing, going to walk away now!”
It’s actually quite shocking I can’t think of more woeful tales of books causing me physical problems, considering as a young child I legit dropped a book about bugs bunny into a bubble bath…. (it was a library book. I towelled it off and told no one and it was returned to the library. A week later my mum got a call from the library saying the book was full of mildew and we had to pay $50 and keep the book. OOOOOPS. I still have that book… maybe because I kept it and love it despite the mould it has withheld revenge.)
HOW HAVE I EVEN SURVIVED ALL OF THIS. I’M A SHAKY BEAN ON LEGS, RIGHT NOW, MAGGIE. #True #suffering
Aww! But I’m flailing! I’m glad my posts are considered pick-me-ups. Omg. *sends you all the cakes* 💕💕
Omg but $50?!? As if a book is worth that much. 😭 You must have a super tough library there haha. And I won’t judge because I was trying to take a bookstagram photo of a book once and knocked it off my veranda and into a mud puddle. I’m still traumatised.
I have many mishaps – I sympathise with these terrible anomalies of book unhappiness: It is truly a curse. My latest dire mishap was entirely my own fault. I’d just finished reading The Roanoke Girls and was like “You like this, try something else by her” so I ordered Amy Engel’s the book of Ivy to my home in England and just grabbed it when I got home. I sat down to read it last night and was so confused – I was all “I’m so tired and jet lagged that I cant read anymore!” – turns out i just can’t read French, though I’m contemplating learning just so it’s not a waste 😂 😂 It’s also way past the return date AND has the title and one of the front slogans in English. Why. SO much confuse…
I ALSO purchased ‘The Girls’ by Emma Cline thinking my sister had reccomended it to me. I told my whole instagram that this was the God’s honest truth but it turns out she told me to read “The Final Girls”. Now I own The Roanoke Girls, The Girls and The Final Girls and I truly don’t know which way’s up anymore 🙈
I feel bad because they’re both my own screw ups but also because I can’t even blame jet lag because I ordered it all before!
OMG OKAY THAT’S HILARIOUS THOUGH.😂😂😂 I did that with a blog once…I just thought I was really tired and not concentrating but noooo, Cait, turns out it’s not in my language.😂 AH THE LIFE OF A READER. :’) We try, we try.
I’ve never actually been bothered about all the books in a series matching up size-wise. Cover-wise though…when I was younger, I read the My Sister the Vampire series and the cover artist changed once you hit book five (also the quality of the story started to go downhill, but I digress) and…I just liked the old style better, okay?
When they change covers and the newer versions aren’t good…omg, that’s just really really unfortunate. 😫😫
Oh yep, I also have trouble with Denton Little’s Death Date. I was trying to find out when the sequel was released I was writing it wrong EVERY SINGLE TIME but Google knew what I meant which wasn’t so bad.
I have serious trouble with the House of Night series when it comes to non-matching copies. I was gifted a bunch with black covers, so I decided to pick up the rest in charity shops when I saw them cheap… Now half of them are bright and colourful hardbacks, I have two American editions and EVERYTHING is pain.
At least google knew what you meant!😂 I get SO frustrated at goodreads because unless you type it in perfectly it doesn’t show it up! GAH. C’mon goodreads. Be kinder to our poor befuddled brains.😂
I have the EXACT same problem with my Percy Jackson books!!! Sometimes I have to sit down and sCREAM when I look at my bookshelf.. I hate it.. WHY DO PEOPLE CHANGE THE SIZE OF BOOKS. WHY. WHAT PURPOSE DOES IT HAVE
PERCY JACKSON IS JUST HERE TO MAKE US CRY APPARENTLY. Like why is it so hard for publishers to just publish a book series that looks consistent????? Does Pure Evil work in the design department? I WANT TO KNOW.
I got a book just the other day, Deliver by Tricia Mingerink, that has glue peeking out between the cover and the first page. It makes the cover look lumpy. I’m planning to complain to Amazon but haven’t got around to it yet. I better though, because it’s really rather bad.
And I can claim that it hasn’t been used because I got an e-ARC when the book came and and therefore didn’t need it for reading. But I’m trying to collect the whole series so I can lend them to people. In that case I probably should have got the second book, not the fourth one, but I wanted to actually own it. I have 2 and 3, but only as audio books which can’t really be lent.
I probably wouldn’t have read it right away anyway because I got Exiles too, and had to read it immediately. I’ve never bought a physical book the very first day it was available before this. Now I’ve got to collect books 1 and 2 of that series because the library owning them, just doesn’t cut it anymore. I need the books.
Ugh that sounds extremely badly made.😭 And frustrating! Like books aren’t cheap so we at least want them to arrive and be functional. IT’S NOT MUCH TO ASK.
Oh yes, I feel your pain. Mismatched books:
My favourite book series (All Souls trilogy by Deborah Harkness) comes in a lovely hardback set with a limited edition commonplace book but my god, it’s over £50!
I have the series, I recently bought the paperback(tiny little fold on the cover!) but before that I had: book1: ebook, book 2: small paperback edition (cheap bookshop) and Book 3: massive paperback.
SMALL PAPERBACK! It does not match, it’s small than book 1 but I don’t think it’s meant to be. I bought it from the same places as one of my game of thrones books, it’s also a small paperback. My game of thrones books don’t match, the first book is a tv cover, then there’s the small paperback and I do have the rest all from the same place and matching. My Poldark books: three are tv covers, why? The same reason I have a tv cover of American Gods, have you seen the price difference? The nicer covers are double the price!
I have other series that match and bought a gorerous hardback set of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, when I bought it I thoguht I was ordering the hardback books but the paperbacks turned up! It all got sorted in the end though, I really wish I’d ordered the hardbacks of All Souls Trilogy 🙁 but I’ve just ordered lovely jewelry instead and shipping from the US is pricey.
Mismatched books are just here to see us cry.😭 They ARE. It’s a tragedy. And omg when they’re super expensive though…a whole other tragedy.😭 I hate it when the nicer covers are twice as expensive. Like what do they think bookworms are? MADE OF MONEY.😭
I once bought a book online, and it was missing an entire chapter. 😂
I HATE it when a series has books of different sizes! And ugh, font. I’m very picky about font sizes. 😂
I really enjoyed this post!
OKAY THAT’S JUST DOWNRIGHT BIZARRE. How does that even happen?!😭😭
Ahhh YESS the Percy Jackson books are a mess!!! I have a few stories of books not cooperating. Firstly one of my favorite series is quite old, we’re talking like 25 years (nearly) since the first book was published, so they have multiple cover changes. My versions of the last three in this seven book series are lovely and nice and perfect, but my versions of the first four are ones I happened upon by chance in a garage sale and they are some ugly shade of orange. Plus the writing in them is TINY. And I do aim to buy the newer versions of all of them… eventually… but I haven’t gotten to it yet. And I do really want to get the cover edition of the first version I ever read, but that is literally the original cover and I have only seen it at my primary school library where I borrowed it from that one time so I may never find it????
My other story is a bit less dramatic and more a case of my stupidity. It’s also a prime example of why I prefer physical book stores. So I was ordering Red Rising and Golden Son off book depository because I love that series and I had just gotten the last one for Christmas and I was super excited to have the whole series on my shelf. But then the books came… and they are both SMALL versions whereas my Morning Star copy is a TALL version. And that’s annoying. And now I know to always check the dimensions listed, but I guess I can learn from this mistake and hopefully never do it again.
I HEAR YOUR CRIES, I DO. Honestly just not being able to nicely match a series is the bookworm’s truest agony. WHY IS IT SO HARD FOR PUBLISHERS TO GIVE US EASILY MATCHING EDITIONS. 😭
Oh I’ve done that with the small vs tall versions! I did it for the Infernal Devices. I just didn’t even think to check the height to match it to what I have!?? *eats a brick wall*
I have most of the Artemis Fowl series and the H.I.V.E. series, and both of them were apparently reprinted three or four times?? like, none of my H.I.V.E. books match, and the Artemis Fowl ones are barely any better. Sometimes I line them up on my bookshelf and stare at them, for longer than is necessary, with bitterness in my heart. Just why.
…AND THE WORST BIT IS WHEN NON-BOOKWORMS MAKE LIGHT OF THE PAIN.
I hear you with lining up book sand looking at them with bitterness. *sighs* My Cassandra Clare books are like in 5 different edition sand just: why. Why must you be so dysfunctional, dear books?? What did we ever do to you??
NON-BOOKWORMS ARE NOT ALLOWED OPINIONS ON OUR PAIN SINCE THEY CAN’T UNDERSTAND IT. *stamps foot*
Ooooh I really like this post! When I was younger I was very particular about my books being in perfect condition. When I was eight The Book Depository sent me a damaged copy of a book I had ordered so I wrote them an angry letter and they sent me a new copy. I was such a terror! Now I don’t mind if my books are a bit beaten up. It shows how well loved they are but it’s not so great if you want to take photos of them for bookstagram.
I like your take on this week’s topic 😊
Aww, thank you, Essie!! I AM PLEASED.
And I’ve complained to Book Depository before and they’re SO NICE about replacing damaged books! It’s such a relief otherwise I’d be in a weep puddle. They replaced my copy of ACOL without any fuss, luckily. haha. (I don’t mind if *I* beat my books up with love, but I hate it when other people do it to my books. 😭😭)
I won a book on Goodreads back in March (I think it was March?), and it still hasn’t arrived. My hardcover Mark Twain collection is falling apart for no reason. None of the books in my LotR series match. Let’s not even mention that I own The Bone Queen and The Naming (aka The Gift), and they both say Book One on the cover, even though the former is clearly a prequel. Oh, yeah, and the first copy of Gemina I checked out at the library was misprinted and had 50 pages missing. I was so confused and thought it was a time warp. But at least I managed to get the proper copy of Traitor to the Throne thanks to your recommendation ages back! I didn’t have to go to England. Book Depository rocks!
Omg MARCH?! I’d say the post office ate that, right? Gahhh I hate giveaways that never turn up. I won a stack of 10 books once and they NEVER ARRIVED. I have a feeling the hosts never sent it though. 😒😒 They didn’t seem pleased I was in Australia but like the giveaway was open internationally? C’mon people.
The Bone Queen KILLED ME. I had no idea it was a prequel when I read it and I was so freaking confused the whole time.
Book Depository is SUCH a lifesaver honestly. It takes forever but the prices are good.😂
did you know that Harry Potter’s misprinted book sold for a higher price after JK Rowling became famous? You might hang on to some of those books you’d never know.
I am laughing at your Percy Jackson’s… because i’m an evil person. You have my sympathy still.
I did hear that actually! That’s hilarious. 😂😂 I wonder how the authors feel about that. haha.😂
Well, I haven’t had very many book mishaps in the mail (except a publisher forgetting to send me my copy of an ARC so I had to read an eARC off Netgalley,I only read it to save my Netgalley ratio though, and I’m not happy with the publisher) But, my mom likes to GIVE AWAY my books and it makes me very sad. I’m reorganizing my bookshelves right now and I don’t have ANY OF MY PERCY JACKSON BOOKS! OR THE FIRST HEROES OF OLYMPUS BOOK! AND I’M MISSING 3 BOOKS IN THE MAXIMUM RIDE SERIES! MY WORLD IS CRASHING AND BURNING AROUND ME! Also my copy of The Crown in the Selection Series doesn’t match, they’re all the same, even the one with short stories in it except that one, which is a HARDCOVER and doesn’t even match the color scheme, very upsetting. And my copy of Divergent is paperback, but the rest of the series is hardcover, which is infuriating. My bookshelves are playing a dirty joke on me, WHY CAN NOTHING MATCH?!?! Anyways, I’m off to use black magic or something so I can find the money to fix all the holes in my bookshelves, Maybe if I’m lucky I’ll have the money for new books, but I doubt it so we’ll see.
I’ve had publishers tell me they’re sending books and then tHEY NEVER COME.😭 It’s really disappointing?! Because like I end up counting on a book and then…nada. *sighs*
I FEEL THE PAIN, THOUGH, OF THE WORLD CRASHING AND BURNING. MINE TOO. Let’s just share cupcakes and cry together. (Also I gouged the back out of my Divergent paperback while camping so…I can’t even with me.)
THIS POST MADE ME SAD WITH ALL THE RIPPED BOOKS. *cries*
Most crazily, ~Olive
SO MUCH SAD BOOK RIPPED PAIN. 😭😭😭
Hi! I confuse song lyrics more than book titles. I’m super good at getting the song lyrics wrong! Great post! I haven’t been able to get into The Book Thief. I’ve tried twice. I’m pretty sure it’s not the book, it’s me. 🙂
My TTT
Leslie
Not every book is for everyone after all! 😜 And I can’t even UNDERSTAND song lyrics half the time haha.
Oh I had the same mix up with Shadow and Bone and DOSAB. I can tell it apart NOW, but then, nope, haha. I also struggle with the titles nine times out of ten. I forget the of add the or a and forget an ss and so on.
Titles are like so hard!? I mean we’re supposed to remember character names, author names, AND TITLES?? It’s too much.
*sings Hello*
This post was hilarious. And I think the post office drank all my green tea, bought a replacement, and THEN sent it to me. Because it came TWO FRIKEN WEEKS LATE.
Gah, you people.
Not really… My mom says “Books are a waste of time” so I go hide at the school library with my phone and obsess over Overdrive.
*SHOUTS HELLO FROM THE OTHER SIDE AT YOU*
What do these post office people even do?? Like just chill out enjoying our stuff I’m sure because we sure as heck don’t get it FOR YEARS.😭 Also omg I’m really sorry your mum is like that.😭😭😭😭
I got back into reading after years of not reading, bought Across the Universe by Beth Revis as my first foray into reading again….some of the pages had words missing. Entire sentences like the printer got too tired and temporarily gave up before it had another sip of coffee and I couldn’t figure out what was supposed to be there until thankfully I found the book online in a way i’m pretty sure was illegal but dang it I paid for it I wanted to know what it was supposed to say! And I wrote the words that were missing into the book. It was annoying trying to find the right pages online that my book gave up on.
Also I’ve read IT by Stephen King once…once…and the book fell apart because apparently I don’t know how to handle large mass market paperbacks…it’s over 1,000 pages.
How do misprints like that EVEN HAPPEN!?? That’s insanely unfair.
Also those mass market paperbacks are just not made to live are they? 😭😂
No idea, and apparently not lol. Lesson learned, if it’s a large book, but it in either floppy paperback or hardback form. It’ll be worth it when it doesn’t fall apart lol
So I only skimmed the comments, BUT I don’t think anyone ever revealed this to you: GAME OF THRONES.
NED: Should I go?
CATELYN: NO?!
NED: He needs me.
CATELYN: You already helped once.
NED: Well he needed me then, too.
CATELYN: And now you’re staying here.
NED: NOPE! BYE!
CATELYN: *sigh*
So it’s not a fight, exactly, but she was not keen on it.
LIBRARY STICKERS ARE MY NEMESIS. And second hand bookshop stickers!
I have an eternal love of ThirftBooks, because it feeds my bookish edition at a price I can afford. MY ENTIRE SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS HAS PART OF THE SPINE TORN OFF. Because of stickers. You’d think I would have learned at the first book, but stickers bother me enough to butcher the book, apparently? It’s unfortunate and they are fortunately kept on a shelf where I don’t see them daily and weep.
Aaaah, you just reminded me I bought a signed 10th anniversary edition of THE NAME OF THE WIND through one of Rothfuss’ charity things earlier this year and it comes next month. *happiness*. If you haven’t seen the 10th anniversary edition, you not getting that $3 one may have been fate because BEHOLD THIS COVER: https://blog.patrickrothfuss.com/2017/06/10th-anniversary-edition-cover-reveal/.
OMG YOU HAVE CLEARED UP SO MIUCH FOR ME THANK YOU. And like Reason #939849 Ned Stark is a freaking idiot.🙄🙄🙄 I mean the dude literally sacrificed getting away to keep his KIDS SAFE because his dear “Honour” was at stake. It’s been two years and I’m still bitter. (Also your summary made me laugh.😂😂)
I’ve butchered covers getting the stickers off too. I’m so SAD. Like what’s even worse? Ripped covers or horrible ex-library stickers?? I just cry.
OMGGGG WHAT THE HECK I LOVE THAT NAME OF THE WIND COVER SO BAD I MAY SCREAM. 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
HMM.
So I was reading the other comments and apparently I was remembering Catelyn’s response wrong? I really felt like there was eye-rolling involved? Apparently I need to re-read. SORRY ABOUT THAT. <3 Maybe it was later because now I've thoroughly Googled and it looks like BOTH happened. It's all Lysa's fault. Stupid Lysa.
See, I can't even keep Game of Thrones straight when I've read them all. Throw in the show and now I'm just thoroughly lost.
YES THAT COVER. NOW BE GRATEFUL FOR YOUR PREVIOUS MISERY AND BUY THE PRETTY ONE OMG.
It’s always disappointing when the book cover you get doesn’t match the cover in the photo. It happens to me all the time. Maybe the book is too ugly for the internet, so they show you a pretty cover to trick you. Also, small fonts? I hate them. They shouldn’t exist.
Small fonts are just here to remind us that WE’RE GROWING OLD. *cries* IDK why they think adults need smaller fonts? Um, no it’s the other way around. Be kind to our ailing eyes.😂
oh gosh. the worst thing ever is when you read a book and then look at the descriptive blurb on the back and…..did you even read the book, sir?? did you splice pieces together from the real story and the one in your head?? no one knows. ordering online tho o.o especially when it’s secondhand and you know there are two covers in existence: a lovely one and a supremely ugly one. the danger is real.
Blurbs are just freaking hot messes honestly. I HATE reading them because either they say nothing or else they spoil the whole thing.😂
What an entertaining post! I don’t even necessarily care about which books are on your list. You could talk about the phone book and I would read your thoughts.
I’m really glad you enjoyed it!😂 THIS MAKES ME VERY HAPPY.
Your struggles with The Book Thief are so relatable!! Sale pile finds are often such a bargain, and have an air of ~elusiveness~ that make you need to snatch them up. I think part of it is the digging you do to find promising books in the piles, so they’re more tempting than books in regular bookstores. But yes, book buying in general is juggling edition, condition, and other things, and deciding which to drop or compromise on.
So true!! Like if you don’t get it NOW it’ll be gone next time you get there…😂 And then you get stuck with multiple editions until you find the right one haha.
NO NO i’ve been saying Denton’s Little Death Date THIS WHOLE TIME OMGGG WHATTT THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE (That book was so messed up and hilarious tho right???)
OMG I buddy read ST..range The Dreamer with May @ FAE AMD OMGGG we had to talk about it AND AGHHH it was so long to keep on typing the whole thing again AND AGAIN and A G A I N! ACRONYMS ARE LIFFEE. And you got two copies of TBT! I’m Buddy reading that this sunday! SO EXCITED!
That giveaway THING IS SO RUDE. HOW DARE THEY CAIT *throws cake* AND I AM SO SADDDD About the AGOS anD ACOL THING *throws cakes again* ALL THE CAKE THROWING.
COME HAVE A LIFE CRISIS WITH ME. It’s like the LITTLE Death Date is so much cuter though? (And that book was so so weird.😂😂)
Gotta love good ol’ Strange the Dreamer’s acronym problems.😂 That’s so unfortunate it’s actually wonderful.😂
I have certainly confused titles! Indeed, after attempting Shadow and Bone (the Grisha series), I got the second book in Laini Taylor’s Daughter of Smoke and Bone, and then was confused as overripe apricots. When I did a little research and discovered they were in fact completely different trilogies and authors, I definitely facepalmed, but also felt relieved to be in the know.
I’ve given up paying for library sales, since most of the books are in such terrible condition, and it really ticks me off that people treat their books so horribly and then just pass them on for somebody else to suffer with. *cries on behalf of the words*
And this is why I don’t do audiobooks!!! If you miss something, you can’t just flip the pages back! With scratches, it makes it the worst.
By the way, what happened with Ned “deciding” to be the King’s Hand was basically Catelyn pressured him into it — and look how that turned out…
Honestly it’s not even our fault IF NOT EVERY TITLE HAD BONE IN IT. Omg. I honestly thought that Daughter of Smoke and Bone was the Russian fantasy one and I was so disappointed. I nearly reviewed it like “well this is false advertising” before I realised it was, in fact, a completely different book. I’m so functional. 😂😂
I hate how people treat library books like crap! I feel like it’s because if you don’t “own them” then you don’t have to be careful? ARghughugh.
REALLY??!? I thought Catelyn must’ve been opposed. Omg this changes my opinions of her so much.😂(Actually I hate her already for hating on my poor smol Jon. WHOM I LOVE. Also his hair.)
YES, Catelyn ordered Ned (hello! who’s the head of the household in this society? it wasn’t the wife!) to go be the King’s Hand so that his family would be protected. But Ned already suspected the Lannisters were out to get them, because of all the history between the king and Ned’s dead sister, and that was why he wanted to let sleeping dogs lie. The moral of the story here is — Ned was totally right. It’s so clear the further you get into the story that Catelyn set the whole thing off when she forced Ned to go to King’s Landing. She wanted someone to look into Jon Arryn’s murder, and instead of arranging that herself, she made her husband do it, and put all her children at risk by doing so.
It’s really interesting, because in the later chapters of book 1, when Ned and Catelyn are separated, Martin certainly writes Catelyn from a different, more revealing POV than when she was at Winterfell; and I really think that’s on purpose, to show that she’s one of those characters where there’s a lot more to her than meets the eye (and most of it isn’t good).
My awful book mishap, was this one time, I bought a book, and I was enjoying it, and wanted to know what happened, and I was close to the end, and I turned a page. And nothing. No words. No last page. And let me add that I was literally half way through a sentence. AND THE DUMB LAST PAGE WAS MISSING!!! I am so NOT happy. It took me about TWELVE HOURS of searching online to figure out what the last two sentences were.
I’ve gotten so many titles confused in my head that it’s actually sort of ridiculous. SO MANY! And they’re never at all alike. In any way. Except they share a word or two in the title.
okay that’s just pure TORMENT and completely unfair. How do misprints like that even happen!?? 😫😫
I DON’T EVEN KNOW!!!! I was so so so mad! Actually, I think I still am a little. Or a lot.
I think I must be lucky when buying books online because most of the time they arrive the way I wanted them. I did have a mishap where I ordered a boxset of the Uglies series and one side of the box was damaged so one of the books has these weird creases and dents in it 😭 And also my Stephanie Perkins books don’t match because I got Anna and the French Kiss in the old edition, then I got Lola and the Boy Next Door in the newer edition, and then I got Isla and the Happily Ever after and it’s not the same size as the other two 🙃 And I’ve only had one incident of a book falling apart because I’ve now gone through two copies of Under the Red Hood because some of the pages in the first copy just fell out while I was reading it so I had to take it back and get a new one. Reading should not be so stressful 😂
OH Isla REALLY annoys me because in Australia the series is published by two different publishers so they purposefully didn’t match them?! I mean WHY. And WHYYYYY. And also why again.😭
I hate it when books in a series don’t match. I have several like that and it drives me crazy, but I’ve yet to do anything about it. I had a book mishap when reading the Hunger Games series. I had purchased all three and was reading them one after the other. I was in the middle of the last book and discovered that a huge chunk of pages was repeated. Even worse, the pages that were supposed to be there weren’t. Fortunately, I had purchased the book from a local bookstore. I immediately went to the story and pleaded that they replace the faulty book. They were sympathetic to my plight and exchanged my copy for a good one. Here is my Top Ten Tuesday.
oh wow that is a serious misprint problem…HOW DOES THAT EVEN HAPPEN?!? I’m glad you got it replaced though, because omg those books are not ones you can put down.😂
Definitely! I think I finished reading the book that same night. I would not have been able to wait any longer!
I had a hard time with ACOWAR during the entire time I was reading it. I had pre-ordered my copy of it but because I live in the North Pole (apparently for the Post Office) my copy did not arrive on the release date.
I probably shouldn’t have expected it to or maybe had more patience and waited a bit more, but I couldn’t wait so I HAD to get the ebook.
When the book did eventually arrive only a couple days later, I was torn between whether I should read the ebook or the physical book. I had all my notes on my e-reader because I’d already started, but the cover of that hardback was so beautiful! I tried to read the hard copy, but then wanted to highlight a sentence. I’m not a person who marks physical books.
So I grabbed the ebook again. I went back and forth like this and there was a whole debate inside my head every time I went to pick the damn thing up. And you know what else? I wanted to test a few chapters of the audibook, just for fun! It was an extended sample. So now I was battling to choose between three different formats.
Also, I am so sorry you had a hard time with the title of Queen of Geek by Jen Wilde… but isn’t it QUEENS of GEEK? It was probably a mistype only, but if it is indeed that book, I thought the mistake was very funny.
Duuuude, I relate. I feel like I live in the North Pole half the time with how often the post office just likes to sit on my books instead of giving them to me. Ruuuude post offices. But omg that would’ve been hard flipping back and forth between editions! I feel that pain.😂
OMG DID I SERIOUSLY MISTYPE THE TITLE AGAIN???? THAT BOOK AND I ARE NOT GETTING ALONG.😂😂😂
Like 90% of my books I buy second-hand (BECAUSE POOR STARVING ARTIST, OKAY) and therefore all my riordan books are mismatched and battered :/ idk, man.
My mom picked up Illuminae recently and wanted to know ‘why i had blacked out all the profanity?’
I had to explain that they’re printed that way :p
Another excellent post, your furious highness.
I totally get that. 😭 I mean half these woe stories are me buying second hand, like the Book Thief and The Name of The Wind respectively. And omg I’m laughing at the Illuminae. 😂😂 Clearly we should keep our mothers away from that series because they just are struggling with it???😂😂😂
omg I’m sorry for all your troubles with books!! yoiks! I went to the bookstore once and picked up a list of cages and all the pages slid out of the hard cover in one big chunk. yup.
what is a . . . bunyip? is that like a bunny that yips? a bunion? so confused.
i’m also very mad that my LUNAR CHRONICLES BOX SET came with a ripped box??? still confused at how the corners were all damaged and it’s the BANE OF MY EXISTENCE because they’re like my favorite books and I just gah can’t. just can’t.
YOU UNEDUCATED AMERICANS. BUNYIPS ARE ONE OF THE NATIONAL CREATURES OF AUSTRALIA. Google it.
And omg how can a boxset be damaged?!? Isn’t the box supposed to protect everything? EVIL BOX. 😭😭 I cry for your pain too.
I don’t remember what the book was, but I was trying to find a specific book on Goodreads. I hate when I’m trying to find it and Goodreads doesn’t know what the heck I’m talking about, and it’s like “Did you mean *insert some religious book*.” No, no I did not! I have also had so many mishaps with ordering from Barnes & Nobles online, that I refuse to order from them anymore. And I don’t have a B & N anywhere close to me. Thus, I have told my father to please stop getting me B & N gift cards for me every Christmas. He usually just goes to a grocery store to get the giftcard because my family is always worried I won’t like the book they got me. I always tell them it doesn’t even have to be on my list, I will be happy if you got me a children’s book, just any book!!! *flails because I am apparently a misunderstood bookworm* My family also thinks that its weird for me to ask for books as gifts, I think they just think books are boring so they think it’s a boring gift. But sometimes I’m like, “You asked me what I wanted! I am giving you my legit answer! BOOKS!” I’ve never had a book fall apart in my hands though. I am sorry for your bad luck and give you some of my good luck:)
I totally understand being a misunderstood bookworm! NO ONE WILL EVER GET ME BOOKS. My family is like “but you have all the books”…*sighs* OKAY YEAH NO. (Also books and like even socks, are superb gifts??! The best kind. 😍)
Yes! I also asks for socks. I tell my mom that I would like the craziest socks she can find, and she is always happy to go find some XD Sparkly socks are the best!
Into the Water by Paula Hawkins is, like, TRYING TO KILL ME. I mean, I got injured by its corner TWICE 😱 it wasn’t just a paper cut, I HAVE A SCAR *gasp* *shudder*
Also, I’m slacking off on A Clash of Kings because I CAN’T hold it because it’s almost a square cube D:
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THIS IS SO ACCURATE THOUGH.😂
Okay, the ACOL story is tragic. But that happens to me sometimes too and it’s always so saaaad. At least you got a replacement, though, right? I kind of started laughing at the disintegrating book story xD. I can see that happening to me xD.
Great (well, technically tragic) list!!
Yes! I did get a replacement so that was a relief. 😱 But I kept the messed up AGOS because I couldn’t really justify sending an email that’s like “okay so the cover is misprinted 1cm to the left….” without sounding so awful.😭😂
Oh man, I hate it when I order books and they arrive damaged. This actually just happened to me yesterday. I had ordered A Feast of Crows from Amazon and it arrived looking like one of Daenerys’ dragons had gotten hold of it.
Soooooo not fair. It’s like what did we do to ask for this mess?! WE DESERVE BETTER. 😭
Queen of Geeks got me, I must say. I think I called it Queen of the Geeks for an age. >.<
Omg, Amazon hated me for awhile I think because I kept getting books with torn covers. B&N too but at least they have physical stores I can go to and exchange the broken one at.
Dear lord I did it again. QUEENS of Geek, not…whatever I said. ^^;
IT’S A HARD TITLE TO SAY!! I think we should all admit that.😂😂Does Amazon do returns? At least Book Depository does which is a sweet relief because I couldn’t handle paying like THAT MUCH for that hardcover of ACOL and having it ripped. 😳😳
Ha ha I love that your list this week focuses on books you’ve had a hard time with things other than reading them, it’s great! Umm I’ve never confused book titles, I have been burned by lots of mid series cover changes, which have ruined the aesthetics of my shelf and the age old, we’ll have the first book in paperback and the rest of the series in hardback so your series can never be together fiasco. Book ordering wise, I ordered something from the Book Depository that got sent to my home address rather than my Uni address which didn’t arrive for weeks and then I had to wait for my parents to send it to me and it was a gift for someone else so that was a bit of a struggle. Also my dust jacket of The Dark Prophecy ripped whilst in one of my boxes of books coming home for the holidays from Uni, so I had to tape that up, so that was fun….not.
I’m so so cantankerous about doing the prompts how they’re supposed to be done.😂 I DON’T EVEN KNOW WHY. IT JUST HAPPENS. haha
And agh cover-changes just keep coming to bite us, to be honest. And omg the address thing!! I just recently moved so I actually am having trouble even remembering my new address. 🙈🙊 I cry for your ripped cover too omgggg. NOT FUN. I took Divergent camping and somehow gouged the back cover so bad?!? I don’t even know.
I totally felt like I’d been lied to when I realized it wasn’t Denton’s Little Death Date…
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SAME. I didn’t even realise until I sent my review back to a publicist and they’re like “Um whoops that’s not the title.” 😂
Usually when a book series is a bit different it doesn’t bother me much…for example my Mortal Instruments series…City of Bones & City of Ashes are paperbacks, and the rest are hardcover and it doesn’t eat me up inside….much. But your set of Rick Riordan books is so different it practically makes me ITCH. I mean. Why.
The book that gave me the hardest time lately was my copy of Horrorstor by Grady Hendrix. I ordered it online and had a major mishap. When it arrived, the whole cover was TOTALLY BENT IN HALF. Just completely in half. Huge crease right down the middle of it. It had shifted around in the box and gotten all messed up. UGH. I COULD HAVE CRIED. Luckily, the company I ordered it from was happy to send me a replacement, but it was almost a TOTAL. CRISIS. #bookwormproblems.
It always eats me up with things don’t match omg.😭 I’M SO BAD. I NEED THINGS TO MATCH.
I’m so so glad they sent you a replacement though because like there’s no coming back from COMPLETELY BENT IN HALF???? That’s like the worst horror story of them all.
OMG I CONFUSE DAUGHTER OF SMOKE AND BONE AND SHADOW AND BONE ALL THE TIME. Luckily I picked up the right one because I read all of them at once and I haven’t read Laini Taylor’s books yet but STILL. And I can so relate on mixing up apostrophes and letters in titles. Also The Great Library books titles are so confusing WHAT IS LIFE.
OMG THAT RUINED ADSOM COPY I would cry if I got that. I actually just got a book in the mail that had a page with a dog-eared corner and my bf was all like SEND IT BACK and I must admit I was tempted hahaha OH WELL. But uncentered for life = my OCD going insane. I literally couldn’t do it. You are a brave soul.
IT IS LITERALLY ONE OF MY WORST FEARS to get a book that has the cover not advertised on the website. And don’t even get me started about the size/height. On Amazon they have the most random heights sometimes and then I obsess over whether the book will match my others until it gets there and it turns out their employees were just playing a practical joke on me. SO RUDE.
I’m glad I’m not alone with the BONE ONES. OMg all these YA titles with bone and daughter in them though, I swear. And then Daughter Of The Burning City just came out and I’m like NO ONE IS HELPING ME OMG. 😭😂
I actually had to redo ALL My graphics in my Ink and Bone series review because I was calling it “Ink and Quill”. *facepalm*
Duuuuuude, I’m so so frustrated at my copy of AGOS. I got a replacement for ACOL but like???? What was I going to say about AGOS. “Excuse me sur, it’s printed 1cm to the left when it shouldn’t be.”😭
I had such a hard time with Matched by Ally Condie. And not because I kept getting interrupted or anything like that but because it was SO BAD. I hated that book! It was really boring.
But anyway I am sort of new to reading your blog and I love it! Your photos are so pretty. I really need to buy a load more books for my own personal library now.
Omg I relate.😂 That book was super boring and painful hahah. And aww thank you SO MUCH!! I’m so glad you like my blog. DAY MADE. :’)
I’m so sorry, but I’m going to be honest with you…. I laughed at your Percy Jackson collection. I feel your pain! That’s exactly how my Harry Potter collection looked like before I got myself the Scholastic editions. It’s a pain like no other when nothing matches right??
LAUGH AT MY PAIN, GO ON, YOU CRUEL FIEND.😭 😂😂😂 Juuuust kidding. I’m kind of laughing too.😂
AWWW CAIT, POOR YOU AND ALL YOUR BOOK TROUBLES. :’) And omg you didn’t get that handwritten note from Becky & Simon??? That SUCKS. I would be so salty if I were you because um excuse me you promised me a note but I didn’t get it JDA;FLJSDL;FJASD. DUDE, BOOK TITLES AND CHARACTER NAMES. I mean, sometimes I get them mixed up, but my issue is more of REMEMBERING them. I basically remember books by their covers (aka why I get thrown off by different editions + cover changes) so I WILL NOT recognize a book by its title. (Okay, that’s not true… I’m not THAT forgetful. XD)
NOOOOO OMG HOW IS IT UNCENTERED?? I literally can’t handle it when the text is not perfectly aligned with the edge of the page (like it’s tilted or something) so I can’t imagine it all being UNCENTERED!
It’s not faaaaaair. I mean, like fair enough that life gets busy for bloggers so I TRY not to judge. But it’s so freaking disappointing to win a rEALLY cool prize and then never get it. 😭😭 Still salty.
I remember books by their covers / colours too!! Like I can legit SEE the whole cover, illustrations and everything…but title? Let me laugh at me. My skills die there.
hahah omg all of those books titles are 100% troublesome, I still pronounce Gemina two different ways simultaneously in my mind whenever I see it. Also, thank goodness you pointed out that acronym for Strange the Dreamer – that could’ve been a laugh.
But mostly – OH YOU POOR SOUL. How dare the world bestow you with such books that cause you such trouble. I despise the unluckiness of it all. I remember once I had ordered one of Julie Kagawa’s books from the BD and it came with deckled pages. At this point in my life I was unaware that this was a fashion trend as such and contacted them to be like, dude, this book has been half eaten by a strange monster. They ended up sending me two copies *and* giving me a refund when each copy arrived in the same condition XD XD I feel bad, but also, lol. Poor naive little me.
LET US NOT TALK ABOUT LIBRARY STICKERS NOT COMING OFF BOOKS.
Strange the Dreamer is here to mAKE US REGRET EVERYTHING. 😂 Laini Taylor just wants us to say the WHOLE title with no short cuts.
omg I’m laughing so much at your deckled pages story! I actually totally get it because the Lemony Snicket books have them and I bought them second hand when I was 13 and I was just like “wow these books have been abused”.😂
Omg so sad D:
Luckily I’ve never really had any issues with messed-up books or anything but maybe I’m jinxing myself by saying that!!
I hope your continual good luck with books lasts!!
I’m so in love with your post, but it made me tear out my eyeballs sometimes. *Insert weeping heart here*
Since a few month I really hate, I don’t know – my post service or amazon, it has to be one of them – everything I order from there, it arrives destroyed. Paperpacks have folded covers on the top, hardcovers have smashed corners – and I could cry so often, If I really don’t need it too urgent, I send it back and complain a ton and request a new one – sometimes more than once 🙁
The matching spines is here a big problem too, and I hate it, when I order a cover, a special size, and then I get on that is so different from the rest – could cry the whole time Im looking at it
and big problem here in europe – ordering english books, gets me so many different sizes, I don’t know how they do it, same book, same place to order and such a difference in height 🙁 and some of the english books are so high, the don’t fit in my shelf and when this happens mid series, I could slap someones face 🙁
I’m sure there is a ton more, that annoys me, but currently I can’t remember anything else.
Greetings Cornelia
I’M SO SAD FOR YOU RIGHT NOW AND YOUR BAD BOOK DELIVERY LUCK.😭😭😭 Honestly it sucks??! Like the post needs to be way more careful than this. bookworms do not deserve to be traumatised.
It’s kind of ridiculous trying to shop online with a measuring tape and like a whole spreadsheet of notes to figure out if we’re getting the right editions.😭
It got Daughter of Smoke & Bone and Shadow and Bone mixed up before I read them. Now I know they’re totally different… but the titles are tricky.
I haven’t really had any mishaps while buying books online. Except for that time I ordered one and then they came back and said, “Oops! We don’t have that one after all. Too bad.”
Yes exactly! I don’t mix them up NOW but at the time I was such a confused little mess.😭
YOU POOR SOUL. It’s so frustrating when books hurt us so. *cries* One thing that annoys me SO MUCH is when my series’ covers don’t match and they’re different heights – it’s so annoying. I ordered me a copy of Stormdancer by Jay Kristoff and it’s the white hardcover with the silhouette of the girl on the front and I LOVE those editions. I used to prefer the other additions but after purchasing my copy I fell in love with those editions. ANYWAY, so I went looking for the second and third book to purchase and then I found out that they never printed the third book in that edition. THE HORROR. So now I’m going to have unmatching books…sadness.
ugh non-matching series really are the most painful things. Like what did we do to deserve this???? We are good people???? 😭😭
I…
…I don’t know what a bunyip is.
I AM SHOCKED AND OUTRAGED.
Cait, I loved this and it made me chuckle. Brilliant idea talking about having problems with the ACTUAL books! Love it! I will, in fact, tell you a few tales of woe! FIRST. I pre-ordered the 4th book of The 100 even though the books are kiiiind of dumpster juice, because it’s The 100 and me, so fine. Anyway, it comes, but with a big old FOLD on the cover. That won’t do, so I send it back. This time, they send one where Clarke’s head is straight up RIPPED OFF THE BOOK. I was going to send it back again, but I want to get a boxed set anyway and I got tired of waiting.
THEN. I found a copy of The Gathering Dark (which is the UK Shadow and Bone!) and alerted Holly because they had TWO COPIES. So we each buy one, it takes of course freaking months to arrive. Holly’s is good. Mine… is a hot mess, Cait. The spine is broken miserably, so miserably that if I try to take a photo of the book it cannot even stand on its own. I was not amused.
And thanks to the US postal service for tearing a full cover off an ARC. That was also not cool. Even though I didn’t super care about the book… it’s book abuse!
Omgggg a folded over cover?! That’s a true abomination.😭 And like just getting continually sent broken ones…dude. Someone in the bookish delivery service has it out for you. It IS book abuse. And like the worst part is when it’s an irreplaceable book. 😳😳
Mid-series cover change. Especially if the first covers were SO. MUCH. BETTER. than the covers that replaced them AND THEY WILL NEVER MATCH EVER BECAUSE I WILL NOT PAY FOR THE COPIES I ALREADY OWN TO BE IN THE SAME HORRID COVER STYLE
THE PAIN FOR THIS IS ABSOLUTELY WRETCHED AND WE SUFFER SO BADLY.😭😭😭
The Winners Curse is a FABULOUS series I absolutely love it! The love story was heartbreaking! I think I literally had my heart ripped out and them stomped on… REPEATEDLY. Especially the second book! It was just so emotional!!! I can totally relate to the need for the book covers to look beautiful and being annoyed when they come in different and your like… what? I’m still dying to read A Gathering of Shadows (I NEED IT!)
I KNOOOOOW. Like that scene at the end of book 2 where Arin is like POURING OUT HIS HEART and Kestrel’s dad is listening and she’s desperately begging him with her eyes to stop AND I JUST DIED THERE TOO. THOSE BOOKS LIKE TO HURT US.
YES! OMG I totally remember reading that scene and being like… NOOOO! That book knows how to torture us! Or how in the beginning of the third book Kestrels memory is gone right before Arin is able to break her out! I mean come on! They did make it up to us in the end though which is good because I think I would have screamed if they didn’t! 🙂
Wow, so many book disasters 😂 But you can have nice things, Cait, all the cake is yours.
I haven’t had many book troubles, other than a fading one, the most messed up bad print I’ve ever seen (or maybe it’s some alien language) and some books falling appart… But I seriously can’t remember all the smokey, boney, firey and ashey titles out there. They aaaall mix up.
*eats all the cake in tearful relief* I HAVE SUFFERED GREATLY HERE.
The smokey boney firey and ashey titles are here to confuse us honestly. 😂 I’m sure the publishers are out there cackling.
This post brings literal pain to my heart lol. Whenever I go into a new bookstore people always give me weird looks when I go through the entire stock on the shelves looking for the best condition of whatever book I’m looking at (my local bookstore is aware of my needs now and often brings out stock from the back for me to look at xD). IS IT SO WRONG TO WANT BOOKS IN PERFECT CONDITION UPON PURCHASE? If my book gets damage, I want to have been the one to inflict the damage (though I do my best not to).
Side note, I finished reading A Conjuring of Light just a little while ago
I hope you have a great weekend, great post!
I totally relate haha.😂 I always buy online but omg if I buy in store…YOU BETTER BET I’M GOING TO FIND ONE IN PERFECT CONDITION. Is it too much to ask for the dust jacket not to be all crunched?!? We have priorities.
Ohhhh are you still BREATHING after finishing ACOL? *sends chocolate*
I read a lot of mass market classics when I was fairly young, so I was used to tiny font and actually thought more contemporary books had oddly large font. Now I’m used to decent sized font and good spacing, and reading a 600 page mass market kind of wants to make me tear my hair (or my eyes) out! :p
I also hated Roseblood and all the other books by the author because the publisher thinks it’s cool to print them in red ink and purple ink and apparently anything but black ink. Please, no!
I so relate! I mean, I’ve never read MANY mass-market books but whenever I do I sort of die a little inside.😂 My eyeballs do not thank the publishers right now.
HAHAHA ok so i bought learning to swear in america and i keep calling it how to swear in american OMG. like, why?? can i stop please, thanks?? maybe i should just take after the cover and flip the bird when i’m talking about the book but then everyone will be all *gasping while clutching pearls* and i would like to avoid that.
the strange the dreamer acronym is just…WHY. i’ve taken to just calling it “Strange” because i am lazy and cannot be bothered to type out the whole thing even though i type 103 words per minute. sense. i make it.
IF YOU’RE GOING TO ADVERTISE A CERTAIN BOOK THAT HAS CERTAIN DIFFERENT EDITIONS AND YOU SEND ME THE ONE THAT IT WASN’T SUPPOSED TO BE BASED ON THE PICTURE, YOU HAVE OFFICIALLY MADE MY SEND FLOWERS LIST. that is sososo not ok. it has happened to me before, but ONLY when i wanted a specific cover. why are people the worst? why??
I am like SO GLAD that I’m not the only one messing up that American Swearing and Learning title.😂 Honestly our edition of it is way better. #fact 😂 But like half the time I’m surprised anyone knows what I’m talking about on this blog, since apparently I can’t read book titles.
I call Strange the Dreamer just “Strange” to abbreviate it too.😂 Otherwise it gets a bit weird when you start confessing online that you like STD by Laini Taylor??? Hmm…maybe…please not.😂
YES THAT’S EXACTLY HOW I FEEL ABOUT EDITIONS. Like how the heckin’ heck do they think we don’t care?! WE CARE.
I know I shouldn’t laugh but, OMG, that little story with The Name of the Wind is freaking hilarious! As well as that of Gemina. But also? Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda giveaway host? Rude. ASOIAF audiobook narrator? RUDE. The book fairy in charge of your Rick Riordan collection? STUPENDOUSLY RUDE. It hurts my soul just looking at the photo, HOW DO YOU MANAGE?
SO MUCH PAIN. HOW AM I EVEN FUNCTIONING NOW WITH ALL THIS TRAUMA, I DON’T KNOW. 😂
I had a similar story for #7! I won a giveaway on Goodreads when I was brand new, but then months and months had gone by and I never got the book I won? Like you, I’m super non-confrontational, sooooo instead of messaging them, I just quietly unfollowed them and forgot about it. It was like, 9 months later that they messaged me saying they forgot, and then sent me a gift card. It was so random.
I haven’t read GoT yet, (but I’ve watched the show!), but good to know about the audio book narrator! That’s so insane that they mixed up the accents! I hate bad narrators! I haven’t encountered a ton, but there definitely have been some that I would never listen to again because they were so bad!
Also, yes. No idea what a bunyip is hahahaha
Oh wow…at least they followed it up!! But isn’t it scary to be confrontational about it?!😭 I’ve had another giveaway where I won like 10 books…and they never showed up. It was a small blogger and I have a feeling they didn’t think an international person would win, because they didn’t sound keen when I gave them my Australian address. but like at least TELL ME they won’t send it?!?? That’d be the polite thing? I did the quietly-unfollow-and-just-never-speak-again thing too.😂
SHAME ON YOU NOT KNOWING WHAT A BUNYIP IS.😂
Hahahaha omg! If they didn’t want an international person to win, they should open it internationally! 😂😂 oh man. That sucks so much that you never got the books! I’d be so sad!!
I must learn about bunyips ASAP! It’s fun to say!
Oh my goodness, the tiny font thing… 😣 The thing about being a student, though, is that sometimes, you HAVE TO use the class mass-paperback assigned copies of the book for reading. The entire time I read Jane Eyre (MORE THAN 400 PAGES OF SUPER-TINY FONT) I was left wondering whether I was becoming far-sighted as well as near-sighted. It was a difficult experience. 😆😅
Agh that’s SO PAINFUL. 😭😭 Books need to be kinder to us omg.
wait omg i’m just jealous with how big your book collection is. i would want to have that but i don’t have enough money (bookworm problems). anyway, this article is funny and i like the way you write. keep reading and writing!
Thanks so much for reading! I get most of my books sent free for review from publishers or pick them up for a few dollars at library sales. It’s harder to collect books on a limited budget but that’s what I do too. 😜
This is literally me every time I order a paperback online, only to realize that the page quality sucks, Like, I paid my rent money for this??? #thisisacruelworld
BTW, I just finished binge reading all of your blog posts because you’re hilarious and I can’t get enough. Keep it up, Cait!
It is a cruel dark world.😭 Or when you buy a book and it’s TINY and you thought you were getting a lot of pages and ughuguhg.
(Also omg THANK YOU!! I’m so pleased and honoured you like my blog!!💕)
Your writing is actually amazing!
I have lost count of how many times it made me laugh out loud (and I was reading your blog at work BTW #shitgotawkward). I can’t wait till your books hit the store and I can finally read all of them. Much love!
THIS MAKES MY DAY SO MUCH AHHHH THANK YOU.😂
Oh my god I HATE when I buy a book online and it comes in a different cover than the one shown. I PICKED THAT ONE FOR A REASON. WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO ME?? This just happened to me too. I bought an anniversary edition of The Bell Jar on Amazon for the pretty special edition cover and got something completely different. THE STRUGGLE.
IT’S SO RUDE OF BOOKSHOPS TO DO THIS TO US. *cries* Covers are important!!