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My topic this week is changes in reading tastes. Have you ever thought about the types of books you used to read as compared to the ones you read now? I don't mean childhood vs adulthood books as those obviously are different, but I mean books you might have read a decade or so ago as compared to the ones you read today.
I've always loved Harlequin Romances, but they've sure come a long way from when I first started to read them in high school (which would have been late 1970's. Back then, the romances were always sweet and, more often than not, featured doctor/nurse type of relationships - rarely was the woman ever the doctor, most times she was the nurse. Here are a few covers from those days...
Today, Harlequin offers a wide variety of sub-genres in their romances from sweet romances to hot romances to mystery to suspense, etc. etc. There's something for all tastes. My tastes were always the sweet romances, but now I find I need something with more of a plot to it - something more than boy meets girl, falls in love and rides off into the sunset together. Quite often I read books that don't even have a happy ending.
I, also, seem to be reading single titles, women's fiction, paranormals, and thrillers/suspense more than Harlequins. I don't even mind gore or being scared by a good book.
For me, I've gone from sweet Harlequin Romances to stories with a bit more meat to them. The bigger the plot, the happier I am.
How have your tastes changed?
I have always been a mystery/suspense fan but am slowly, very slowly coming out of my comfort zone with some memoirs, bios, chick lits. I know the paranormal genre will never interest me.
ReplyDeleteI think it would be more accurate for me to say that my tastes have expanded rather than changed. I still read romances, mysteries and science fiction but have made more room for the whole paranormal thing with vampires, werewolves, faeries and angels too.
ReplyDeleteI read the historical ones like crazy I have read so many Barbara Cartland books! They all had big men who were a bit scary and 18 year old women and the man could put his hands around his waist..lol, that was always so amusing
ReplyDeleteI never read the old Harlequins. I always enjoyed dramas, I guess we would call them women's fiction. Thrillers are a genre I enjoy. Something I have started reading just recently is some YA which I never would have thought I would enjoy, but some of them are really good....
ReplyDeleteHmmm. . .interesting topic. I'm not sure that my tastes have changed all that much, except that they may be more eclectic now. :)
ReplyDeleteI probably read some of those! I used to sneek them out of my Grandma's house thinking I was going to read something racey! LOL
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