tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8011557877105021955.post3470620821517383242..comments2024-03-25T22:59:30.053+00:00Comments on Desperate Reader: A sweeping family saga set against the background of a dystopian future...Desperate Readerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15708411387912078122noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8011557877105021955.post-41566131539676290432011-05-22T12:21:25.242+01:002011-05-22T12:21:25.242+01:00Michelle Ann, I'm with you on the 'Starts ...Michelle Ann, I'm with you on the 'Starts a new life in France' (or anywhere that involves an olive grove, it's probably jealousy but I just don't want to know) and footballers wives or wizards don't do it for me either. I do however love the idea of a dress making vicar, I hope somebody writes that book soon. <br /><br />I know I look out for books which touch elements of my own or my family history so like you suspect ancesteral memory plays a big part in forming prejudices.<br /><br />The little reader, snap with the hard working people who discover themselves, good for them but I don't feel the need to read about it. I sometimes yearn for a good book about smuggling in the moonfleet or jamaica inn model but never seem able to find them.<br /><br />Not sure about the youth crime for my own reading but these things creep up on us and you just have to go with it really.Desperate Readerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15708411387912078122noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8011557877105021955.post-22556303341109796122011-05-22T09:48:49.509+01:002011-05-22T09:48:49.509+01:00What a great post! We all have book blurb words or...What a great post! We all have book blurb words or phrases which instantly attract or repel us. My repellants are likely to be horror, terror, wizards, footballer's wife, or 'starts a new life in France'. I am attracted to books which refer to nuns, vicars, dressmakers, and 'travels back in time'. I once read that someone who was fascinated about books about Japan, found under hypnosis that they had lived a previous life as a Japanese. That could be just an interest surfacing, but I wonder if ancesteral memory has any part to play in our preferances?Michelle Annhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07499490029910905577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8011557877105021955.post-6628038305202334902011-05-21T09:46:04.152+01:002011-05-21T09:46:04.152+01:00i was pointed here from Stuck In a Book and enjoye...i was pointed here from Stuck In a Book and enjoyed your post!<br /><br />i'm always put off by the "hard-working, honest man/woman who was recently divorced/fired learns to appreciate life" tales. it's interesting what catches our interest and which topics manage to surprise even our selves. i've always had a fascination with india and africa, even though i've never been and lately, i've been drawn to non-fiction about youth crimes and can't seem to make sense of it in any way.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8011557877105021955.post-21998275385892808202011-04-23T03:51:43.603+01:002011-04-23T03:51:43.603+01:00You won't be surprised to know that your favou...You won't be surprised to know that your favourites are mostly mine, too. Alcoholics & lesbians in fiction I can take or leave but I have always been fascinated by nuns, as well as all your other likes, Scotland, murder, surplus women etc. I don't read science fiction or fantasy or westerns, if it comes to that!lynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04509400868331534237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8011557877105021955.post-70591619537339634912011-04-18T20:58:25.666+01:002011-04-18T20:58:25.666+01:00Looking at my prejudices - both the positive and n...Looking at my prejudices - both the positive and negative ones always makes me feel like I need to get out more, I do wonder what my reading choice says about me...Desperate Readerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15708411387912078122noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8011557877105021955.post-9641628432990670222011-04-18T11:37:33.260+01:002011-04-18T11:37:33.260+01:00I adore these sorts of discussions (and I especial...I adore these sorts of discussions (and I especially love your sentence "I was never buried in an avalanche of family saga’s as a child forced to read my way out to safety and food").<br /><br />My biggest turn-off is "It's Ireland in 1820" or similar - you just know everyone's going to starve to death, one by one. 'Dystopic' similarly has me running for the hills, like you.StuckInABookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10017836017530130716noreply@blogger.com