New book topics to argue about

Molly Templeton writes Perhaps We Could Find Some New Book Topics to Argue About covering DNFing, reading the classics, are audiobooks books, 'performative' reading, gendering books, and genres. But the article doesn't actually propose new topics, just recaps these old ones. I really wanted to think of some funny new book topics we could argue about. But it turns out people really do argue about everything. Cover art, is revealing that reader she married him a spoiler, different book sizes in a series, colour coded shelving, pseudonyms, content warnings, tropes, font size, writing accents, the death of reading. So I've tried to come up with some new ideas people can argue with me about. How many times should 'comestible' be allowed in an average-length book? It's a lovely word. Should it be used four times? Should it be used as often as the author jolly well likes? Bookmark choices. I have 'real' bookmarks, mostly gifts, but generally favour the book's own receipt. There are…

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