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749 upvotes, 43 comments. Yik Yak image post by Anonymous in Book Club.

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Anonymous 8w

Canva has convinced too many people that they are artists too lmfao

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Anonymous 8w

Are they good? No. Do they deserve to exist? Absolutely. And no one should feel shamed for enjoying them. They’re literally labeled as a “beach read” for a reason- they’re not highbrow lit and they’re not pretending to be. They just fun and stupid and nice Sorry for the aggression, I don’t mean this, I just see this sentiment a lot and people get mean about it sometimes

Anonymous 8w

I like these books tho😔.. It makes me feel whimsical when I read them

Anonymous 8w

I don’t read these books, but I don’t hate on anyone who writes a book or reads what they want to read. More people need to read and I’ll never criticize people that do it.

Anonymous 8w

sometimes i need a silly stupid book 😔

Anonymous 8w

Cover art is not literature my friend. And many good books have trendy covers. This just happens to be the current trend. Y’all would be so much happier if you posted about things you like rather than taking digs at what OTHER people like.

Anonymous 8w

if liking these types of books is a crime then lock me tf up 🧎🏻‍♀️🚔

Anonymous 8w

i think they’re cute and they’re good! it adds some color to my bookshelf

Anonymous 8w

don’t get me wrong. I do enjoy these type of books, but I do think the cover ruins them. and yes, sometimes I do judge a book by its cover.

Anonymous 8w

AGREEED.

Anonymous 8w

noooooo i love theseeeeeee

Anonymous 8w

I hate these books with a passion (as in if I had to read them) but I read LitRPG author self-insert slop so I very much so cannot judge

Anonymous 8w

Thank you when I see those pastel colors I run in the opposite direction

Anonymous 8w

it didn’t say “genre of book cover” it said “flavor of book cover” is the worse “genre of literature”. not ambiguous, just nonsensical

Anonymous 8w

Smut advertised as a cartoon. I get don’t judge a book by its cover but like… that’s how books advertise themselves

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Anonymous 8w

i mean it depends on what you like but personally theyre so boring and predictable

Anonymous 8w

I am sick of it

Anonymous 8w

damn so yall just hate fun and whimsy??

Anonymous 8w

omg i love female literature

Anonymous 8w

Agreed

Anonymous 8w

Literally like it immediately makes me not want to read it

Anonymous 8w

We call that "smut"!

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Anonymous

#1 8w

It’s funny cause it’s true

Anonymous

#2 8w

....a lot of people are taking this as an attack on the content of these books or the people who read them. It's not that, the covers are just ugly and generic lmao

Anonymous

#1 8w

Then the person that wrote this isn’t very literate because it says “the worst genre of literature,” which is the type of book and not the cover art. Perhaps OP needs to read more books?

Anonymous

#7 8w

"this flavor of book COVER"

Anonymous

#1 8w

A book cover is not a genre of literature. The post is nonsensical.

Anonymous

#7 8w

Take it up with the anonymous TikTok user then

Anonymous

#1 8w

No thanks lol

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Anonymous 8w

That’s not what it says though

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Anonymous

#5 8w

This is about the covers, not the content…

Anonymous

#11 8w

“Genre of literature” implies the content

Anonymous

#4 8w

I don’t know - I understood it as that very particular cover style that’s become, well, kind of everywhere. I’m 100% all for cute fun beach reads and can’t stand those elitist reading types that denigrate any entire genre of book! (Especially romance, I suspect it’s dumped on the most because they’re associated with women). I just wonder what demographic test/survey they must have did that made so many release books with this same exact cover style?

Anonymous

#7 8w

me when I only see the second part of sentences because reading is hard

Anonymous

#7 8w

also the sentence isn’t just saying a book cover is a genre of literature. It is saying a type of book cover is a genre of literature. Thus specifying a “genre of book cover” as a member “of” literature. It has ambiguous meaning but one such ambiguity is still grammatically and semantically correct.

Anonymous

#16 8w

If you want a better example of ambiguous grammar google “Time flies like an arrow.”

Anonymous

#15 8w

Yeah, I agree. I think they stated to sell more so people started hopping on the trend but I’ve tried to read newer books with those types of covers and they were not at all the same vibes😭

Anonymous

#4 8w

*Started, not stated

Anonymous

#7 8w

Which part?

Anonymous

#11 8w

It’s both I think. They’re stacked together under a label because they’re all a similar vibe/genre (I’d guess a romance/light bodice ripper at most) and they all have a similar cover because that’s what’s trending for the genre right now. It goes together

Anonymous

#12 8w

Huh i wonder if flavor of book cover and genre of book cover could be synonymous. I guess flavors and genres are completely different though lmfao

Anonymous

#16 8w

the definition of genre is “a category of artistic composition, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject.” OP categorized a style (“flavor”) of book cover based on their stylistic similarities

Anonymous

#16 8w

If you’ve got nothing better to do than try and correct someone’s grammar in a way that isn’t even relevant to the conversation, at least make damn sure that you are correct.