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Originally Posted by
Zyzzyva
"X runs in the family" is a fairly common English phrase: "good looks run in the family", "madness runs in the family", etc. So we have a book with X replaced by "blood": the implication is that "blood" is a quality that all of the family** possesses, and is unusual enough to be notable. But of course every family has blood in it, it's even how we refer to family metaphorically ("blood is thicker than water", etc), so saying that "blood runs in the family" is redundant and bathetic. It's basically the same source of humour as The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul. It's not a pun, no, but it's clearly not the title of a serious book either.