Who Am I?
I picked these two books up at Books a Million for 10.00 (for both)… when I put them together to snap a photo I thought them a very odd pair!
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The word : eclectic jumped to mind. I found this very interesting for someone 68 yrs old.
When I was younger my reading was all: fantasy/ fiction. (I still read fantasy/fiction)
A little later in life I found I had added a few biographies. (now I have many more)
Then I met Carl (Stainless Steel Rats) and found myself adding Gothic Mysteries to my reading agenda.
Then I met my “sis”, Cath, of Read_Warbler fame, who lives across the pond, and found my mysteries all seemed to want to be in England! I think I can blame her for my love of YA books now too! (happily I have found some wonderful YA authors like Michael Scott and James Owen)
Then I added Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens! (me?!…classic writers?… this was no longer me!)
Toss in Daphne du Maurier, & Frances Hodgson Burnett for a few female authors and I am beginning to wonder who I am!
And now it’s come to this: non fiction! (gulp) and books on Roosevelt! I think I am going to hell in a handbag! Why were these sort of things not interesting when I was young enough to become smart by reading them????? To be honest… at my age with a memory like a sieve ..just what do I think I will learn and why do I want to?
Ok.. so I don’t necessarily look at it as learning as much as it being like a good movie… interesting.
I think I am terrified to ask: what’s next?
posted by DesLily | 8:07 AM
5 Comments:
Look at it this way: if you *are* going to hell in a handbag, we'll all be able to meet up there and have the absolutely-best-ever book group :-)
Oh I can SO agree with this post!!! I read nothing but sci fi and fantasy when I started blogging and now months can pass by without me reading either of those! Funny how others can influence us huh? I think it's a good thing though :) I've discovered so many great books because of fellow bloggers!
Nah, don't be terrified! Just enjoy the heck out out of it!!! But I do so get what you mean--for me it was psychological thrillers that occupied the bulk of my reading life. Before blogging, I never read fantasy. How horrible is that?!! Oh my, but how many happily spent hours I have bloggers to thank for!!!
I have always been a bit eclectic. I think the biggest change for me is that I read young adult books. I used to NEVER touch young adult books...
Oh, what a great post, Pat. GeraniumCat made me hoot with her comment. I can't wait for that!!!
Me, I used to read nothing but historical romance when I was in my late teens, and twenties. Victoria Holt, that kind of thing. Mikhail Gorbachev changed that... the wall came down along with communism and I went looking for biographies of him, read a couple and they led me onto all kinds of things, like Victorian ghost stories. Gawd knows how. Blogging caused another upheaval as I saw what others were reading... Now I'm like you, I'll try anything. But I do understand what you mean about not retaining the info. I think most of us are the same with that, but enough remains that we're more informed than we were before we read the book. So it's all good. :-)
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