She bit her bottom lip...

[HeavyLocks]

Why do authors do this?? I read a lot and I've noticed it more and more. Apparently it's a way of making a woman seem aroused/scared/sexy

I can honestly say I've never bit my lip when I've wanted to be aroused/scared/sexy.

Aibu? Also what other well used "phrases make you cringe?

(If you'll pardon the pun )

The worst is

Her sex pulsated around him 😱

Oh I don’t know ballsdeep - sounds like a roller disco.....

When they argue the man lip ‘curls’ in a sneer....how do you curl your lip?

Jutted out her determined chin - drives me crackers. I used to read Jennifer Cruisie novels, and her female protagonists were always doing it.

Yeah - I'd commented to DH some time ago that Reacher never seemed to meet any short fat lasses with greasy hair and a verruca.

^^

GOLD (bars are great)

Rufflecrow I tried once to read a Booker shortlist one, but a few chapters in, the narrator's sister turned out to be a chimp -put me right off !!

Oh don't forget the lonely, elderly man who always has rheumy eyes,

minipie... laughing so hard but silently so I don't wake DH

ellenanora5

you really made me laugh , that's just the kind of graceful thing I would end up doing .

I’ve just finished a book and it annoyed me that the characters kept saying “yes?” After sentences.

Was it a biography of Gordon Ramsey?

romance:
Chisled jaw, steely grey eyes and cold, arrogant stare.
Bursting giggles, flouncing ex girlfriends and small, pert breasts.

Thrillers
Sneering grins, pooling blood, slashing knives, dark, tortured childhoods and the complete inability to turn on the lights or stay put when told.

Jacqueline Wilson. When another character is insulting another, she always uses the term “diddums” as the insult. Whilst I understand she has to be fairly child friendly ( although I frequently read the tearms Bitch, sod, crap, bloody and bastards in her books), this always made me cringed and TBH no 10 year old I have ever known has and yet to used that word as an insult. Felt very 50s public school, which (bar one) none were set in. Just made me roll my eyes every time I read it TBH xx

TheGoddessFrigg
I hate when the two main characters accidentally touch and it's a big electric shock that makes them pull away

Ooh I can do this! Particularly if I have put my clothes in a tumble dryer. I did it to the cat the other day- he was most offended.

Most men tend to go 'OOOOWWW! What the fuck was that?' and look scared

this had me in stitches

I get static shocks from all sorts but you can bet your bottom dollar if I touched DHs throbbing member and he got a shock I wouldn't see the poor bugger for dust !

I read a book recently when peoples heads kept 'snapping back' when they were shocked. 'Derek's head snapped back as he realised that Candice was the murderer' etc etc etc. I mean, I can't even picture what that looks like?! But half if the characters must have had whiplash by the end...

Love this thread.

When me and my sisters were kids we were taken for a family holiday to this draughty old house with no telly and stuck in a room with basically just a book case of Mills and Boon. We had such fun reading the ‘dirty’ bits out loud to one another and laughing hysterically at the descriptions.

One that stuck in my head, “he pressed himself against her pubic mound.” 😂 Sexy!

I bite my lip, especially when I’m being given a juicy bit of gossip and am scandalised. I also toss my hair and have feeble wrists. Where’s my quilted-jawed, iron-gazed, mysterious millionaire to come and put me in my place?

Oh yes! The 'sex' 'he gently rubbed her sex and Helena could barely breathe, she wanted to let go of that damn fart she'd been holding in for 10 minutes but he whispered 'not yet darling' '

'Derek's head snapped back as he realised that Candice was the murderer' etc etc etc. I mean, I can't even picture what that looks like?

Totally unrealistic I agree.
If Derek snapped, then he should also have farted
As all good Mumsnetters know.

😂 @mistermagpie I feel concerned for all those poor people wandering around with their heavy craniums dangling awkwardly from their snapped necks.

I agree with so many of these. Also lips that thin with disapproval/annoyance/anger/whatever.

Eyes that glint with mischief or flash with anger.

Faces that dimple with a smile

If Derek snapped, then he should also have farted

I missed the snap and fart thread. Is there a link?

“A need became overwhelming, she had to have it inside her”. Yummy donuts 🍩:)

@Andylion
Here you go: "I snapped and then I farted"
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/mumsnet_classics/3277729-Embarrassed-by-boyfriend

Third paragraph from the bottom in the OP's first post.

The sparks were flying, Marjorie knew she shouldn't have bought that nylon nightie

Nuzzled and pert. We forgot.

She nuzzled into his strong manly neck.
He nuzzled into Marjorie's pert breasts, heaving with electric anticipation beneath her nylon nightie.