Have you ever noticed that the genre you can't get away from one day, is the one your putting at the bottom of your TBR pile the next? Just like our emotional mood changes, our reading moods change as well. A sudden shift may leave you wondering why on earth you bought an entire shelf's worth of light fiction reads when you suddenly want nothing more than to curl up with a tissue-box-worthy women's fiction. Or why you had to have the latest bodice ripper last week when now all you crave is a sleeping-with-the-light-on thriller. I'm more of a fiction person than nonfiction, but I do have a bad habit of starting one nonfiction book and then switching books and subjects part of the way through. Usually this happens because, as I breeze through fiction, title after title, I neglect the other books for months on end.
My latest reading "mood swing" has been from romance - historical, contemporary, paranormal, you name it - to mysteries and thrillers. I'm nearly finished with Adam by Ted Dekker, just the kind of what-goes-bump-in-the-night indulgence I needed. I am making myself finish P.S. I Love You, though, which I was already in the middle of, before I indulge any further.
How about you? Any reading mood swings lately?
2 comments:
I do go through swings where I'll want to read in a particular genre or a certain author. :-)
My mood swings are a disaster. I'll be addicted to some light romance one day and crave some bloodthirsty thriller the next. I also go up and down with the nonfiction, particularly reading a book on how to write and actually writing.
Thanks for the post. :)
Cheers!
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