Booking
Through Thursday

1. We asked last week about what draws you to your favorite kind/genre of book. This week, we want to know–how often do you depart from that comfort zone? If you love mysteries, do you ever read fantasy? If you primarily read cookbooks, do you ever read a good romance?
2. How MUCH variety is there in your reading? Do you mostly stick to one type, with just the occasional toe-dip into a different style? Or do you generally read a variety of things, just, maybe more of your favorite style than anything else?
   

I read a little bit of everything, really. Or at least, a little of most kinds of genres–fiction, non-fiction. History. Science. Science Fiction. Biography. Dog training books. Travel. Essays. Books on writing and grammar. Cookbooks. Craft books. But also in fiction, I’ll read fantasy, mystery, literature, historical fiction, contemporary . . . About the only thing I DON’T read is horror/true crime. They keep me up at night. Westerns and books about sports, romances–none of these are favorites, but even those, I’ll read one every few years or so.

I try to stretch my boundaries and read different kinds of books, even if I keep going back to my favorites, my “comfort” reads. But throughout each month, there’s usually a reasonable mix . . . or at least, I try. I pretty much always have at least one history book and one fiction of some kind going at once, but since I zoom through fiction faster than I do through non-fiction, the finished list each month is almost always weighted toward fiction.

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