Let’s Talk Bookish – Are you a stubborn Reader?

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September 15: How Stubborn of a Reader are You? (Davida Chazan @ The Chocolate Lady’s Book Review Blog)

Prompts: How stubborn of a reader are you? How often do you stray from reading books not in your favorite genres? Do you sometimes dabble in genres you usually stay away from? Or do you read any genre, and have no favorites?

Welcome to another week of LTB here at DTRH, everyone! Today’s topic is about being a “stubborn” reader, which I think is actually a perspective I didn’t think about in genre-picking. I feel like I am personally flexible, but maybe I am not in the grand scheme of things. I wonder how the rest of y’all feel too!

I generally don’t think of myself as a stubborn reader. I’m pretty open to reading other books, particularly ones that my friends suggest me, as long as I am sold on the synopsis. That being said, even if I said I wasn’t stubborn, but all I read was one genre, then I guess that would classify as stubborn. As it stands though, I think I read enough in the fiction realm to not be considered stubborn?

With my book club, I definitely read genres that are not in my favourite categories. They usually are a miss for me, but it is still worth the try, I think. The book club has especially helped me to dabble in genres that I would never have picked up otherwise, usually in the non-fiction category (if that wasn’t obvious). I have a hard time getting into those books, and it wouldn’t be my first pick in general. However, it’s nice to expose yourself to new things once in a while, and that’s what book club does for me.

I definitely have a favourite genre, and that’s thrillers. They’re usually short and “sweet,” and I can read them basically any time because the commitment doesn’t feel that big. But in general, if the premise is interesting enough, I would read anything! I wouldn’t simply rule out a book based on its genre, though of course the topics I am interested in often lends itself to fiction books. Sometimes I think about branching out, but when there are just so many books even within my own genre that I love to read, it becomes hard to find time for books not within that genre. Does anyone else feel that?

How do you all feel about “stubbornness” with your preferred genres? Is branching out really that important? Let me know in the comments below!