No Plot, No Problem was overdue and I'd already renewed it once, but I renewed it again. Hopefully no one else is waiting in line for it. One of the suggestions in it was to list your favorite aspects of a novel in one list and your least favorite in another. Since I like listing things. . .

What I Love in a Book

A "Once upon a time" magical feel. The feeling that you are about to hear a story.
Characters you love. Really love. Like, you want to squeeze them because they're so cool!!

Romance, told artfully and beautifully

Structured plots

Ridiculously shocking, possibly embarrassing, confrontational, eyeball-widening, eyebrow-lifting, scenes

Surprising twists

Lush and exotic settings

Mystery and intrigue

Beauty

Rich use of all the senses

Beautiful endings. I'm partial to happy ones, but I like bittersweet ones too so long as they're poignant and meaningful and beautiful and leave me feeling contemplative instead of depressed. I can never forgive a book for having a flat and depressing and unfinished ending

What I Don't Love So Much in a Book

An excess of wordiness so that you can't picture what's going on and your imagination is bogged down.

Cardboard characters

Really disgusting, unredeemable villains. At some point in the story, either in the beginning or in the end, I like the villain to have good points to his character, otherwise they seem kind of fake to me. So long as it's a human, that is. If it's some dark force representing of Satan, it doesn't seem cardboard.

An excess of action, particularly action you can't envision (yes, I know it's more grammatically correct to say "one" instead of "you", but "you" sounds better

Cheesy, sappy, over-done romance. Blec.

Monsters, ghosts, aliens, weird fantasy creatures. Most of the time.

Strange, unnatural fantasy problems. I find those disturbing. I still vividly remember my dad watching Star Trek when I was about eight or nine, and someone got a strange disease that turned their eyes yellow and their skin crackled strangely and grossly. I left to my room and sat on the edge of my bed with clammy hands and weak, trembling limbs and a queasy stomach. Unfortunately, I'm not much different today when it comes to those things.

First person when the character has an attitude

Preachiness

As afore mentioned, depressing and incomplete endings