The Next Best Book Club discussion

Fi,

When u have read Crime & Thriller novels, do u get the feelin u need a different book afterwards or can u carry on readin the same genre?

Just I am thinking I might need a different book after readin Simon Kernick's novel: The Business of Dying.

Thanks hun

Titch xxx

That's cute, I might be too lazy too on that! LOL

My dad reads Crime I think and my mum reads Catherine Cookson type.

I apologise for the message as I wasn't sure hun xx

Changed name of thread.

Hey u got me on that one, I clicked right in going - "only 1 new one? hmm I don't remember this thread before"

GR addicted.

Laura, was for Fi's attention. But thought better change the thread so others can addtheir comments.

Now we need to sort out nicknames for u and me. Which is why I call u Fi and me Titch (hehe)

Oops, then sorry for me stickin my big fat fingers in and adding to your conversation

:(

Dont mind me...

PS - I like how you two call each other Fi and Titch. It's so much less confusing that way!

LAURA, PLEASE STAY. Thats why I changed the name of the thread. Cos I am actually interested in everyone's comments for this.

I do leap around, but I get into certain grooves sometimes and then I wanna stay there. I hope that makes sense, or does it confuse you even more?

I've gotten to the point in my life that I just want to have as much enjoyment as possible, so I try to read whatever I want, whenever I want, sometimes several at a time, whatever it takes to thrill me the most.

One thing I've noticed since GR is that I have less and less tolerance for a book that is less than terrific. I want more meat, less fluff. However I get that, be it mystery, non-fiction, regular fiction, prize-winning books, I don't care. I just want meat and the more meat the better!

GrinchiBookivore!

(MAX! Where are you MAX!!!)

My usual genre is Crime & Thrillers. But I have been known to dip into Fiction, Sci-Fi, Non-Fiction.

I like fiction, mysteries, some romances, a little fantasy (not too hardcore), and of course non-fic too. I think I might start into some historical fiction for next year.

JAN'08
P.S I Love You - Ceceila Ahern
The Mephisto Club - Tess Gerritsen
5th Horseman - James Patterson
6th Target - James Patterson
Malicious Intent - Kathryn Fox
Behind Closed Doors - Sarah Webb
Revenge - Eric Brown
Holly's Inbox - Holly Denham
Where Rainbows End - Ceceila Ahern

FEB'08
Housewife Down - Alison Penton Harper
The Memory Box - Margaret Forster
The Bone Garden - Tess Gerritsen
A Summer Collection - All Sorts
The Old Man & the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
The Diving-bell & the Butterfly - Jean-Dominque Bauby
Kirsty & the Mystery Train - Ann M. Martin
Claudia's Friend - Ann M. Martin
Jessi & the Troublemaker - Ann M. Martin

MAR'08
Severed - Simon Kernick
The Sunday Night Book Club - All Sorts
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
Confessions of a Failed Grown-Up - Stephanie Calman
35 Kilos of Hope - Anna Gavalda
Adventures According to Humphrey - Betty G. Birney
Cherub: Dark Sun - Robert Muchamore
Magic Kitten: A Very Special Friend - Sue Bentley
Odd & The Frost Giants - Neil Gaiman
Doctor Who: Revenge of the Judoon - Terrance Dicks
Happy Families - Adele Parks
Girl On The Platform - Josephine Cox
East End Tales - Gilda O'Neill
The Baby Trail - Sinead Moriarty

APR'08
Blindsighted - Karin Slaughter
Perfect Match - Sinead Moriarty

MAY'08
Drop Dead Beautiful - Jackie Collins
From Here to Maternity - Sinead Moriarty
Kisscut - Karin Slaughter
Private Peaceful - Michael Morpurgo

JUN'08
The Crime Trade - Simon Kernick
Before I Die - Jenny Downham
7th Heaven - James Patterson
Owning Jacob - Simon Beckett
Song For Eloise - Leigh Sauerwein
Life Support - Tess Gerritsen

JUL'08
The Book Of The Dead - Patricia Cornwell
The Uncommon Reader - Alan Bennett
Sleepover Club goes for Goal - Fiona Cummings
Sleepover Girls foes Snowboarding - Sue Mongredien
Sleepover Girls sees Stars - Sue Mongredien
Sleepover Girls in the Ring - Fiona Cummings
Sleepover Girls go Karting - Narinder Dhami
The Sleepover Club on the Farm - Sue Mongredien
Sleepover Girls go Trasure Hunting - Sue Mongredien

AUG'08
A Dog Year - Jon Katz
The Appeal - John Grisham
Baby Baby - Viv French
Nightmare Park - Phililp Pearce
Witness - Anne Cassidy
Chocolate Moon - Mary Arrigan
Devil For Sale - E.E. Richardson
I See You Baby ... - Kevin Brooks & Catherine Forde
Johnny Delgado: Like Father, Like Son - Kevin Brooks
Prisoner In Alcatraz - Theresa Breslin
Snakebite - Robert Swindells
Crowgirl Returns - Kate Cann
A Faint Cold Fear - Karin Slaughter
Johnny Delgado - Kevin Brooks
Crow Girl - Kate Cann
Remember Me? - Sophie Kinsella
Holly's Inbox: Scandal In The City - Holly Denham
Housewife Up - Alison Penton Harper

SEPT'08
Housewife On Top - Alison Penton Harper
Bloodstream - Tess Gerritsen
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
Indelible - Karin Slaughter
Smile & Other Stories - Deborah Moggach
Never Say Die - Tess Gerritsen
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
In The Red - Alexis Hall

OCT'08
Coraline - Neil Gaiman
Under The Knife - Tess Gerritsen
The Bookshop - Penelope Fitzgerald
Beyond Ugly - Constance Briscoe
The Black Violin - Maxence Fermine
The Fishfinger Years - Fiona Gibson
Beautiful Lies - Lisa Unger
Changing Babies - Deborah Moggach

NOV'08
The Butterfly Lion - Michael Morpurgo
The Sleeping Sword - Michael Morpurgo
Toro! Toro! - Michael Morpurgo
I Believe In Unicorns - Michael Morpurgo
The Last Wolf - Michael Morpurgo
Dear Olly - Michael Morpurgo
Long Way Home - Michael Morpurgo
Fair-Weather Friend - Patricia Scanlan
Faithless - Karin Slaughter
The Business of Dying - Simon Kernick
Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom

That should give u an idea of what genres I have read in the past year lol.

Good Lord, another speed reader!

I am on book 99 for the year & book 12 for the month.

See, this is the kind of thing GR has inspired me to do. I'll be lucky to read one a week tho, I think.

August I read 18 books lol.

I just love readin Fi, so I just grab a book and read lol. Unless someone has asked me to read a book for them or I am in a Mobile library circle.

I read a lot of mysteries, since that's what I write, but I tend to alternate them with other books (a literary or women's fiction for my book club, a good romance, a short story anthology, etc.) so I get some variety.

Well, as my profile says I'm a book-whore. I don't stay faithful to any particular genre. I prefer to read fiction over non-fiction, but other than that everything is fair game.

I pretty much stick to literary fiction, and poetry.

I read much less non-fiction: usually on writing or writers, music, photography, or fishing.

I rarely stray from those genres.

And like Leppaluoto said, there weren't no YA when I were a lad. We were lucky to get a Y. A cracked Y, with no serifs!

Well, generally fiction, but that isn't very specific, is it? I've been reading classics lately. I don't think too much on what genre the books are, but I suppose there must be some common thread among the books that appeal to me, even if it isn't always obvious.

I enjoy a murder mystery as an audio book when I'm on a long journey. However, I love an Historical Romance on holiday, and I enjoy Harry Potter at home.

I've gotten stuck in many different genres over the years--bosum rippers, chic lit, mysteries, courtroom dramas, true crime, historical novels, thrillers and on and on. These days I tend to read a little bit of everything except horror. I especially like memoirs, reading about other cultures, social issues, history, and have broadened my horizons by reading GoodReads reviews.

Fiona, you could define literary a number of ways but the broadest definition would be fiction that isn't driven by plot conventions. Rather, it's (usually) driven by character and language. Or simply put, everything that isn't something else.

"YA" only appeared in the past decade or so, I think. But YA isn't really a genre, it's simply a marketing category. In terms of genre, Twilight would be a romance; it just gets labelled YA because it's aimed at a teenaged audience. It's a case of trying to jump on and make money from a large teenaged demographic.

I try not to. But it really depends a lot on my mood.

No I don't stick to a genre. If I like the sound of a plot of a book I give it a try.

I read most of the time crime and can read a lot of that without changing. But I also read many other genres.

LoL @ Jackie...I suppose I would fall into that catagory as well, altho I prefer to call it "playing the field". LoL.

I read a bit of EVERYthing - I'm partial, I think, to mysteries and thrillers, but I luv a good sci-fi, horror, general fiction, or a good humor book just as much! I think, really, the only thing I DON'T read much/at all is poetry or true crime (I like my blood-and-guts fictitious, thankyouverymuch!)

In my reading, I'm not much into "sad" either...I don't read books about the holocaust, for example, or about child abuse....and if the dog dies - fogettaboutit! I want my pleasure reading (as opposed to knowledge reading) to be just that - pleasurable. Other than that caveat, I'm pretty "open".

Maurean - Like you, I don't like to read material that is too depressing. There's enough going on in our world to worry about - I'd rather have some fun during my reading time.

I don't stick to one genre, but there are certain ones I really don't read (westerns, those smutty romances, horror, sci-fi, true crime). In general, I usually enjoy YA, historical fiction, non-fiction (history, travel, biography), classics (Austen in particular), & mysteries.

I recently joined a number of face2face groups so that I would expand my pallette as it were. Although I must confess I love fiction most especially fantasy.

Oh and what I don't like...Romance and Sci-fi.
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Wife of fantasy author: Michael J. Sullivan
The Crown Conspiracy (Oct 2008)
Avempartha (April 2009)

Now, I tend not to stick to one genre and read as many different ones as I can. As long as it sounds interesting to me, I'll read it regardless of genre. When I was in high school, I stuck to a lot of YA books thinking that "adult books" would bore me.

A couple of months after high school, I started reading chick-lit and got into that. Then I decided to pick up a mystery book (since I love procedural shows) and got hooked on mystery/crime novels. So, now I just read whatever strikes my mood. I tend not to read romances (I read Twilight and wanted to claw my eyes out and still picked up New Moon; they're addicting, okay!) or westerns.

I read a lot of science and sociology books interspersed with anything really - I just read a Jean Sasson book, Daughters of Arabia. I finished the Waitress book I've reading for ages today, but I'm still in the middle of the fascinating Becoming a Tiger. I just don't read fantasy or romance.

I pretty much stick to mysteries. Once in a while I"ll read a light romance book but not to often.

i am a great fan of crime/suspense/thriller types, i can spend the whole night finishing books of this kind, but ever since i joined Goodreads, i have tried to expand to other genres as well, but still stick closely to fiction.

Just to say I have read 101 books this year. I am on book 16 for this month lol.

I go through phases, where I'll read a lot of the same genre, but generally, I can go back and forth between all kinds. Just in November I read a young adult fairytale, a historical fiction, a non-fiction on common American expressions, a fiction on Death, and right now I'm reading another young adult. I would definitely say I don't discriminate too much. Next month, I'm reading a lot of non-fiction, but that's for a challenge.

Fiona, you have me beat. I thought I was doing well with over 80. I do switch it up between genres in fiction and some non-fiction. I don't really like reading the same author in a row either. It's funny, since I read 4-5 books at once it seems for the longest time I am not completing any, and then they all seem to come to a conclusion and then OMG, what do I do -- need to figure out the next 4-5. What a nice problem.