What is your reading "style"?

Bromfield2
Tue, 16 Nov 2021 21:00:38 +0000

For the last four years, I’ve kept track (have a small notebook) of what I’ve read. On average, I read 40-45 books a year. I mostly read literary fiction and mysteries of any kind. I don’t read much non-fiction, but lately I’ve been drawn to memoirs. (My book group read Dani Shapiro’s book, Inheritance.)

I go to a book festival every year in the place where we have a vacation home; I always read a few authors who participate in the festival. Will Schwalbe, Alice Hoffman, Amor Towles, Ann Leary, Min Jin Lee, and Nathaniel Philbrick are some of the authors I’ve started reading as a result of attending the festival.

I tend to binge on authors. If I like one book, I’ll read all of the books that author has written. Now that I’m retired, I read when I get up in the morning and when I go to bed at night. I prefer hardback books, but for traveling I’ll use my Kindle. I just started listening to audiobooks–my kids bought me a subscription to Audible last Christmas.

I definitely pay attention to words and phrases. I also pay attention to how the book is put together (I used to work in book publishing). I’ve noticed that the quality of book production has gone down in recent years. (I know I sound like an old fuddy duddy when I say that, but it really has. Publishers are clearly cutting costs.)