One word is ruining my book

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I’m reading the new cj Tudor book “serenity falls”. Really enjoying the story. My problem! No one walks anywhere they “pad”. It’s so jarring once you notice it

The moment on Olga where they can speak to each other is genius.

I didn’t really get Paddington until I read them with DS. They are so wonderfully written, there is a scene in a launderette when he thinks the machine has made his washing disappear that made us cry with laughter.

(Sir) Roger Moore built his entire acting career and found
eternal fame with this unique ability

Amongst the many many things wrong with the Twilight books, Bella is always ‘scarfing’ her food. Just a horrible vision and I can hear the noise she’d be making 🤢

For a while in romantasy books there was a spate of lips kicking up instead of smiling which annoyed me every time.

ooh that’s another pet hate of mine, use of terms like “windcheater”

shirtwaister, is another I think, beloved of Jilly cooper, and the usual Americanisms.

not so bad these days but as a teen with no google it completely wiped my mental picture if I had no idea what the item they mentioned was.

what is a windcheater? Like a wax jacket?

ARe you really Emilia Clarke of the Dancing Eyebrows?

Read a long fantasy series recently (it was pretty good) but the writer used 'bulged' all the time whenever something dramatic or horrifying was experienced by one character. Her eyes were 'bulging' or 'bulged' every single time.

I noticed the repetition but also found it difficult to work out exactly what it meant.

Windcheater is widely used to describe a lightweight rain jacket.

I had no idea what a windcheater or shirt waister was either until I came across an old book written the 1930s called “The Bride’s book” and found examples in there.

A shirtwaister or shirtwaist dress is just a style of dress, like a shift dress. They are brilliant for pear shapes and there are loads online 😊

I've had to abandon books where nobody ever 'says' anything. They whisper, they mutter, they sigh, yell, opine, explain, grunt, stutter etc. (Though no longer 'ejaculate' as in some Sherlock Holmes novels!)

Lisa Jewell characters are always slanting their eyes

@ShallWeDance was the character a pug?

Feyre and her bowels constantly turning to water.

Yes that’s exactly how I imagine it to be used:
“she padded across the room, her eyes wide beneath her full fringe, towards Jack who leant against the desk with a smile tugging at his lips.”