The In or Out Book Tag
The In or Out Book Tag This original tag was created about five years ago by @RickMacDonnell, and it has recently been revived. I was tagged by my friend Chas @BookishChas. The tag asks us to consider several bookish features and classic tropes in literature and to make a snap decision as to whether we are "in" with it (that is, we like it), or "out" with it (that is, we don't like it). I provided a bunch of examples to illustrate my choices as well. PROMPTS 1. Reading the Last Page First 2. Enemies to Lovers 3. Dream Sequences 4. Love Triangles 5. Cracked Spines 6. Back to My Small Town 7. Monsters Are Regular People 8. No Paragraph Breaks 9. Multi-Generational Sagas 10. Re-Reading 11. Artificial Intelligence 12. Drop Caps 13. Happy Endings 14. Plot Points That Only Converge At the End 15. Detailed Magic Systems 16. Classic Fantasy Races 17. Unreliable Narrators 18. Evil Protagonists 19. The Chosen One 20. When the Protagonist Dies 21. Really Long Chapters 22. French Flaps 23. Deckled Edges 24. Signed Copies by the Author 25. Dog-Earing Pages 26. Chapter Titles Instead of Numbers 27. Tag others. Books Mentioned: Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Joyce, James. Finnegans Wake. Ryan, Patrick. Buckeye. Bradbury, Ray. Dandelion Wine, Something Wicked This Way Comes, and Farewell Summer. Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein. Jen, Gish. Bad Bad Girl. Irving, John. A Prayer for Owen Meany. Dickens, Charles. Bleak House. Erdrich, Louise. Python's Kiss. Erdrich, Louise. The Mighty Red. Hession, Ronan. Leonard and Hungry Paul. Kitamura, Katie. Audition. Milton, John. Paradise Lose. Gardner, John. Grendel. Lucas, George. Star Wars: A New Hope. Stoker, Bram. Dracula. Hugo, Victor. Les Miserables. Melville, Herman. Les Miserables. Gay, Ross. Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude. Gay, Ross. Against Which. Blanco, Richard. Directions to the Beach of the Dead. Limon, Ada. Startlement: New and Selected Poems. I am tagging anyone who is watching who would like to join in the revival of this tag and also the following people: @books_and_bocadillos @sueysbookbanter @GenreBooks23 @stuartgriffin1001 @RaynorReadsStuff @RobertGReaderofBooks-r3p @readandre-read @MyMessyBookshelf @ellenmadebookclub @meliinthemargins @hardbooks770 @BeyondBooks-wt5il @Bibliophile-Reads @horrorliterati @booksoffthebeatenpath @MelodiesBookNook-t9u #tagtuesday #tags #booktubecommunity

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