A small complaint.

1:35 am 19 November 2013
The Signature of All Things - Elizabeth Gilbert The End of Everything: A Novel - Megan Abbott The Beginning of Everything - Robyn Schneider, Robyn Schneider The Interruption of Everything [Hardcover] by McMillan, Terry - Terry McMillan The Truth of All Things - Kieran Shields

I want to talk about titles. Can we ban "of everything" and "of all things" from book titles (or at least novel titles)? They're so all-encompassing as to be entirely meaningless. It's gotten so I'm slightly offended when I see a book with such a title because it sounds like the title was focus-grouped. Isn't one of the generally accepted rules of writing to be specific? Why does that not extend to titles?

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