Over the decade since I started journaling, I've gradually become more purposeful in my reading, and if I look back over my journals (now on LibraryThing), I can see a steady improvement in the books I choose to read reflected in higher ratings and fewer abandoned books.Īt the beginning of the year, I did an exercise where I identified my top 10 favorite books of all time. It's either a good story or it's not.īefore I started journaling my reading, in 2001, I just read whatever caught my eye at the bookstore without any sort of plan whatsoever. If I'm trolling for new books in a genre I like, I might look specifically for women's names (e.g., recently called up LT's list of 500 top dystopian novels and saw some that I put on my wishlist).īut mostly I don't think too much about an author's gender when I'm reading a book. I've re-read them often, and am glad Atwood has more than six books in her canon. I didn't care for Marge Piercy or Sherri Tepper much. I guess I never really thought about picking out a book because of the author's genre until I took a women's lit class 35 years ago in college. (Well, Wodehouse always followed a formula, but he was so funny it didn't matter.) I hated the Nancy Drews and Zane Grays equally because I tricked out the formulae pretty fast and got bored with them. Wodehouse, Daphne duMaurier, Graham Greene, Margaret Mitchell, Jules Verne, Rumer Godden, all my aunt's Nancy Drews, and a boatload of Zane Gray westerns my grandfather read. I read a lot of books off my gramma's shelves when I stayed at her house in the summers-Louisa May Alcott, P.G.
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