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Just for balance, is there anyone who's not into sci-fi? What's your preferred genre? I enjoy history, true crime or the occasional fiction.
Mills and boon for me.
You'll love op shops then and they will love you back.
Relaxing reading and also talks about social issues. Under rated. 👍
Romance is the biggest selling genre, by a lot. It keeps the book industry afloat. Even more so since ebooks and audio make it harder to judge what somebody's reading on the train.
Not underrated at all, just looked down on by many.
it's a very sneaky genre, so many stories that are actually romances but because there are edgy characters or a bit of intrigue or action they aren't commonly regarded as such 🙂
I like them. 🙂
( and I've read so many , I like how they explore issues and character )
I don't particularly like sci-fi and I'm not much of a fantasy reader either. Or crime. I read a lot of contemporary fiction, literary fiction, some vintage domestic fiction, kids' books, all sorts. Occasionally non-fiction.
Any recommendations for contemporary fiction?
I just finished Diving, Falling by Kylie Mirmohamadi, which was good if you can deal with some unlikeable characters. Set in Melbourne which I always like. Interesting and well-written.
I liked Red River Road by Anna Downes recently too: a young woman trying to find her sister who went missing caravanning in WA. More of a thriller, definitely a page turner.
Thank you kindly :)
I'll check them out. I'm so out of the loop with modern/contemporary fiction.
I go through fads. I will read nearly any genre.
Right now I'm reading a lot of non fiction biographies by explorers, archeology books and art history and art technique books. I'm listening to sci-fi and fantasy and science and history of philosophy books.
I wouldn’t say it’s something I’m ‘in to’ specifically. I do read/watch sci-fi, but it’s not the dominant or only genre for me. I happily enjoy literature, crime, non-fiction, general fiction, biography. Sci-fi is so broad, it’s not just spaceships and laser beams. Just like any other genre, there’s unreadable junk and then also brilliant works that leave you thinking long after you’ve read them. I like the same things about it that I do in other genres, eg human struggles, mysteries to solve, comedy, redemption, action, discovery, drama etc. I mostly read the softer stuff where the sci-fi is not really the point of the story, just happens to allow a ‘what if’ scenario that our current reality doesn’t.