Discussion - Things I Could Do Without

This Week's Topic

Things I Could Do Without

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Happy Friday! I know we all have our pet peeves, and I have a list of things I see in books that I could without. I see these things mentioned so often in books that I have an imaginary bingo card when I check them off. These are things that are not really part of the plot, nor do they move the plot forward, but they are things the characters will lament, over and over. 

Recently, I had a run of books where the character could not stop talking about their student loans. In all the books, the characters were referring to their graduate school loans. Most people do not have the money to pay for college outright. My family didn't. When it was time for me to apply to college, my parents made me face reality. 

Some of these characters needed to have that talk with their parents. In one book, the character kept crying about her loan debt for her tuition at CORNELL. Well, hon, if you didn't have Cornell money, you should not have gone to Cornell. My parents had state school money, and that is where I went. 

In another book, the character kept complaining about having to pay the loan back. To help some of these characters out, I will share the definition of a loan. 

When you take a loan, you sign an agreement to pay it back. Case closed. In the US, we have state specific compulsory education laws, but I can tell you, it does not extend to college. That's why grade school and high school is free but college is not. It's a choice these characters made, and I think they should stop whining about it. 

The biggest reason it gets on my nerves is because these are romance books! A mention, I could let slide, but I seemed to be encountering a slew of books where they beat the horse here, and it isn't like their debt drove them to a live of crime or any sort of plot point, it was just something they kept complaining about. 

Fictional characters' student loan debt kvetching is something I could do without. Is there something you see often in books that you could do without?

Now it's your turn!

What things exhaust you in books?
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