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[eattheolives.livejournal.com]

Have your reading habits changed over the years? Since I have kept a list of all the books I've read for over nine years now (I was thinknig it was five years, since I started keeping track in 2000 ... my how time flies), I've been able to really notice shifts in my reading patterns - nine years ago I read almost exclusively fiction; probably 10/90, if even that. At one point my parents - who never really monitered my reading in any other way - started strongly suggesting that I should read a nonfiction book for every two fictions I consumed.

 

For the last number of years the split has been more 50/50. A big factor, I think, is working at a library - I am exposed to SO many more nonfiction books in the course of my job thnt I ever was when I just haunted the fiction shelves. And with reading so much nonfiction, I think it's changed my standards for fiction. It takes a lot more for a novel to grab me than it did before.

 

How about you?

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[eattheolives.livejournal.com]

I'm usually just rubbed the wrong way by self-help or other such non-fiction books ... which is why I guess I gravitate towards history of some kind or other. :)

(I really, really liked Julie Andrew's recent memoir, Home. Even if you aren't that interested in her personally, I think it would still be interesting - she has a beautiful way of writing.)

[moredetails.livejournal.com]

Thanks - I do like her and that would be a good one. In fact, my mom would probably really enjoy it too. Thanks for the recommendation!

[eattheolives.livejournal.com]

I REALLY hope she writes another one, because Home ends just as she gets the news that she got the part in The Sound of Music. I'm sure she has a ton of interesting stories from that experience. :)

[moredetails.livejournal.com]

Sounds like she plans to if she ended it like that! I bet that would make a great book.

[eattheolives.livejournal.com]

Home at least talks a lot about her experiences working with Rex Harrison on the broadway version of My Fair Lady ... and I suppose I should stop talking about it in case you read it. :D It's a fault I have, wanting to talk and talk about books I like!

[moredetails.livejournal.com]

Yes you're giving it all away. :P