I've seen a few posts about pet peeves regarding phrases, or trends, etc etc, and thought they were really fun. Seeing how different, or similar people think and feel. So, I'm taking inspiration again. What are you most ridiculous, irrational, maybe unfair, bookish pet peeves? As ridiculous as you can get!

To start the thread, I'll say an unfair, ridiculous pet peeve of mine is when someone won't read a book only because it has a high page count. Is that affecting me at all? No, no it isn't. Ultimately, I don't care what people read, I'm not sitting up at night in agony because someone won't read that 800-page novel; seeing it being said though, for some reason, irks me. Crazy-ness I know. I'm ashamed.

Remember: We're all friends here, and this is in lighthearted good fun! So, if someone comments a pet peeve that you might do, don't take it to heart, read how you enjoy reading. If someone does a pet peeve you may have, don't make them feel bad, they're reading how they enjoy reading and so are you. Either way reading should be celebrated!

Stay creepy lovies, Crow

Goodell makes such a chilling point about the nature of slow apocalypse. Human beings are wired to recognize danger when it is immediate, visible, and directly in front of us. We know how to react to fire, violence, collapse — threats that announce themselves all at once. But climate change arrives slowly and gradually. So slowly that it’s easy to forget it’s happening at all.

When danger is incremental and cumulative, people are far more likely to normalize it, explain it away, or assume there is still time to act later. It becomes easier to procrastinate, easier to shift responsibility onto the next generation, and easier for political and economic systems built on short-term thinking to keep pretending the world is still stable. By the time the crisis feels undeniable, much of the damage has already been done.

It’s a real frog in the boiling water scenario.

My current goal for myself is to limit buying and checking out books from the library to read what I actually own on my shelf. I've already broken both of my "rules," went to a new bookstore and wanted to support as they were closing, and then read the first book in a trilogy and then immediately checked out the next two from the library. I think this is to say, why is it so hard for me to stick with what I have!! Why am I so obsessed with wanting more? Of course, buying things always contributes to consumerism, but why am I frustrated with the library? I still feel like they're constantly pushing new books? And I'm never content with just what I have in front of me. IDK if anyone understands what I'm saying, but TLDR I'm just annoyed with the publishing industry and my own vices of succumbing to capitalism.