Today's prompt from
Booking Through Thursday:
"What makes you choose the books you read? Genre? Reviews? Certain authors? Covers? Recommendations?"
By the covers, to some extent. Look at these
two book covers.
. . . 
The one on the left looks like literature, and the one on the right looks like chick lit. Look closer, though, and you'll see that both are the same book. I wouldn't look twice at the one on the right, but I might read the back cover or dust jacket information of the one on the left.
- Genre? Yes, as above, I don't generally read breezy beach books.
- Reviews? Sure, if a book blogger I trust recommends a book.
- Certain authors? I notice a new book, if I liked her previous books.
- Covers? Yup, see above.
- Recommendations? Of course, especially from like-minded friends.
This topic makes me realize that I don't read like other book bloggers. I read too many "kinds" of books. Mostly, I read books on the subject of my professional life
— books on theology, which makes me wonder why I have 73 followers. Those books are obviously chosen by subject matter, as I go from one scholar to another, or from one theologian's book to her next book. I'm a teacher, a writer, and sometimes a teacher of writing. And that determines another kind of reading. I also read fiction for fun. For this Booking Through Thursday, I simply assumed
Deb @ BTT was really asking, "How do you choose the
novels you read?" That's what you, my readers, are probably interested in, anyway.
. . . 
3 comments:
For me, the more I read books, the more I discover new books and my TBR just grows longer and longer.
Here's mine: http://booksandbindings.com/booking-through-thursday-choosing/
That is a great example of the difference in covers. They don't even look like the same book. Covers weigh very strongly for me, but it's a combination of factors that determines if I read a book or not.
2 Kids and Tired Books BTT
Covers and titles really lure me in though I hate to admit it. Then the blurb on the back or the inside flap
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