The kind of books I love to read

I’ve only read one book in this pic so far and didn’t really love it 😮

I mentioned in this post a few months ago that it’s quite life-changing when you know the types of books that don’t work for you; you can skip right over certain books and know they’re not for you even though many other people might love them!

In the same way that you should now what you don’t want to read – here’s my list – you should also know what you do want to read, so that others start to know your style and won’t miss the mark buying you books.

Funny story – last year and this year for my birthday, two different friends bought me books I’d already read and loved. They were quite disappointed that I’d read the books but I was thrilled because they got me!

I’m reading The Ensemble in this pic

So what do I love?

  1. A hopeful tone (a serious title can have either a depressing or hopeful tone) even if serious subject matter (e.g. Still Alice)
  2. Good relationship dynamics (anything Joanna Trollope)
  3. Project-based memoir
  4. Memoir that is not fan memoir (Lab Girl)
  5. Strong protagonists (there’s at least one in each of Liane Moriarty’s books)
  6. Non-fiction that is solid in concepts but still practical (I know how she does it)
  7. Contemporary fiction that is not soppy (The Ensemble)
  8. Most Irish fiction (Roisin Meaney – but here are my favourite authors)

Do tell – what kind of books do you love to read?

An aside – I was chatting to Dion about a book that sounds like the type of thing I would like, but then I said, “it does say the author was a winner of a Man Booker Prize so probably not”. You see, I also have the dubious honour of not liking Book Prize books or enjoying any Academy award-winning movies, except one (Crash) 🙂

And if you’re interested, here are the books I read in July.

Fiction/ Non-fiction

8/3

Physical/ Audible/ Kindle

3/1/7

It was a great reading month – I only had two books rated 3 stars. The rest were 4s and 4.5 stars.

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Comments

  1. MamaCat says

    I rarely watch much, but when I watch something based on a book, I have to go read it. The book normally has so much more, I just enjoy it.
    I am currently loving reading one of my favourite fantasy authors. This book is a little different from his others: it is set in our time and world. It is a good commentary on the bad things going and an interesting perspective on why this “evil” actually seems to be flourishing in our current time: Suicide bombs, internet bullying, road rage…etc.

    • Marcia Francois says

      I also rarely watch much but interestingly, we read Crazy Rich Asians for book club last year and the movie comes out on Friday 24th. And we are going to see it 🙂 Should be fun especially because I only gave the book 3* but I did say, “this would make a perfect movie”!

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