This title format that drives me bonkers - Big Little Lies etc.

Nothing About It Is Interesting

Every Book I Never Read

Soref otm

I think they work by being vague but also familiar, so that you have the feeling that you've heard enough good things already to warrant the purchase. "Oh yeah, Pretty Liars Everywhere, I think I've heard of that."

All Things Are Too Small serves as comment on the whole phenomenon

― Alba, Monday, 25 March 2024 bookmarkflaglink

Hilarious that Rothfeld, who made her name writing about modernist masterworks, allowed her book to fall into this format lol

Small Lights Lie Everywhere

All the Little Live Things a really good, devastating 1960's novel by Wallace Stegner

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— John Levenstein (@johnlevenstein) March 26, 2024

How did we make it this far without anyone mentioning Eat, Pray, Love

We should combine them
Eat all the big little lies I never told you, pray everywhere in the house of ivy and sorrow, love all at once

overly long ones are next, lets say fried green tomatoes at the whistlestop cafe as an exemplar

They combined the titles that’s crazy https://t.co/XhyCrw75qZ pic.twitter.com/tvvm7Px09o

— Nick Stellini (@StelliniTweets) March 26, 2024

All the

small wives

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Remember all the book covers that were just, like, shoes?

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if James Herriot were writing today, his book would be called Little Big Animals

All Creatures are Small

Dirty Sexy Money (2007)

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xp The ad for Dirty Sexy Money started with a bunch of random words on the screen, and they disappear one by one until only "dirty" "sexy" and "money" remain. Probably exactly the way creators and execs come up with these half-assed titles

I wonder if the title for Dirty Sexy Money was inspired by this British TV movie?

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Tell me lies, tell me Sweet Little Filthy Sexy Tiny Big Lies

Lionsgate has acquired the rights to ‘SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE’ starring Cillian Murphy.

The film takes place over Christmas in 1985, when a devoted father (Murphy) discovers the startling secrets being kept by the convent in his town, and shocking truths about his own life too. pic.twitter.com/0SqxR3FW2T

— Film Updates (@FilmUpdates) June 5, 2024

startling secrets AND shocking truths? I'm in.