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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]

Oh, a fellow Russian history enthusiast! I went through a period where I was reading tons about Tzar Nicholas and family.

Lol, keeping lists like that sounds like something I would have done, if only I had thought of it. And I also used to reread my favorite novels again and again ... I think the ones I read most were Gone with the Wind, Rebecca, Little House on the Praire, Anne of Green Gables ... ah, such good stuff.