u/Elizabethbriars

As the title suggests, I want to know what your silliest reasons or rules are for not picking up a book.

Personally I have one big one: The author's name cannot be bigger than the title (which I realized recently is responsible for me not having read any of the greats)

And one little one: if the genre is Regency or Victorian and the clothing on the cover is anachronistic, I won't pick it up

*To be clear, I mean reasons that prevent you from even grabbing it, not things that would make you dnf

It's supposed to get down to freezing tonight (I'm in 6b) and I'm nervous about my trees. I have bush cherries and native plums that have already flowered and are nearly done dropping petals. Whenever people talk about protecting trees it's to preserve the blooming stage. Do I need to worry? It would be my first year getting fruit from either 😕