Dumb or nearly dumb reasons why I will read a book

This week's Top Ten Tuesday is Books With Numbers In the Title. Honestly, I find this prompt a bit mundane so I'm listing some Dumb or nearly dumb reasons why I will read a book or at least check it out. So maybe these are not dumb but sort of dumb reasons but I thought them up haphazardly so I may not even agree with them later on.

01| Really good cover art — The cover shouldn't be the way to judge a book but I do it anyway because a good cover can somehow invoke nice thoughts about the book and also, it's the first thing you see so I think they are for judging.

02| Fun titles — like cozy mysteries with their pun titles like Dim Sum of All Fears by Vivien Chien and titles like The beginning of the world in the middle of the night by Jen Campbell and A swiftly tilting planet by Madeleine L'Engle - I do like long titles more because they say a lot.

03| Includes a grumpy but lovable character — you know those spunky characters who appear like they they don't care about anything or they have a sarcastic, snarky, humorous remarks for everything, without them, books would be kind of dull.

04| Magic — it can be the witchy kind or the mystical kind or the kind that makes no sense - you know, magic.

05| Orphans — For no reason, I mostly end up reading books with orphans in it. I suppose I like the idea of found family or maybe I'm just sick of all those books about children trying to find that lost parent or lost sibling or lost relative.

06| It's short — As in under 300 pages or just a little over 300 pages. I read long books too but sometimes (okay, most of the time) it's just nice to read a short book or even finish one in a few hours.

07| It's a fairytale retelling — So I haven't actually read that many retellings lately but whenever I see one, I want to read it. My favorite is still Beauty and the Beast (or East of the sun and west of the moon which have a similar story) but I have read too many of those so I don't look for those as much.

08| It have illustrations in it — So I'm rather too old to still like having illustrations in my books but I like them. I think illustrations adds to the story and/or makes the story more easily accessible or maybe I just like looking at artworks.

09| Someone recommended it — I do sometimes read books because someone had recommended it. They would most likely had great things to say about it and I can't help but want to check it out.

10| Not a series — I'm really sick of books series because there is always a larger plot, a expansive story that sometimes gets dragged on to ten or fifteen books for no reason. I often seen books that says they can be read as a standalone but is part of a series and often times, it's not true. What's really true is how some books are broken into a series for the sake of being series. I have read some book series that really should have been combined together. What is the point of breaking up a book into different books when they aren't even long?

What reasons, dumb or otherwise, do you have for reading a book?

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