Is anyone else fed up of formulaic book titles?
The girl on the train
The girl who kicked the hornets' nest
The girl with two legs
The girl who ate porridge for breakfast
The girl who wrote a book about a girl
The tattooist of Auschwitz
The swimmer of Auschwitz
The cheese grater of Auschwitz
The watering can of Auschwitz
The Auschwitz of Auschwitz
The bookshop
The little bookshop by the sea
The lost bookshop
The midnight bookshop
The bookshop full of books
The bookshop with no wheels
The underwater bookshop
What happened to creativity?
by ubiquitousuk
5 Comments
capitalism.
Creativity still exists though, it just sits alongside the generic crap you listed.
It’s to the point where something like “A Bowl of Mac and Cheese” sounds like a YA romantasy book now.
Agreed. I find it very hard these days not to judge a book by its cover.
You forgot ‘A This of This and This’ or ‘A This and This of This’ that plagues fantasy shelves
All the Little Things Little Things Everywhere Tiny Shiny Little Things All the Things Are So Little