It's Iola here. Welcome to our ACW Tuesday Book Chat, where we encourage book lovers to answer our bookish question of the week. I look forward to hearing your thoughts.
Do you read fiction or non-fiction or both?
As a bonus question: what genres do you read?
Please join in the conversation in a comment on this post or in a comment on the blog post shared in our Australasian Christian Writers Facebook Group. Or, if you're feeling wordy (like me), write a blog post and link to it in the comments.
Both fiction and nonfiction.
ReplyDeleteMainly fantasy and SF with fiction.
Mainly nonfiction related to WW II, the U.S. Civil War and topics related to biology.
A non-reader might think that if you read fiction and non-fiction then you read everything. But you're quite specific in the genres you read within each - I am too. Thanks for sharing!
DeleteHi Iola, it's both for me. Sometimes after a wonderful fiction I get book hangover, and don't want to move straight on to new characters. Filling those moments with non-fiction instead is a perfect way to fill those times.
ReplyDeleteI can understand that - especially if you're binge-read a trilogy (as I did recently!).
DeleteMainly fiction atm. It used to be the other way around. As Paula commented above - sometimes you just need a space between good fiction books. I’ll read nonfiction then.
ReplyDeleteAnd reading lots of fiction is a good way to learn and absorb different genre expectations ... and might help you become less of a genre butterfly!
DeleteHi Iola, I read both but I’d estimate it’s 80-90% fiction. I tend to only read non-fiction books occasionally for a specific reason, for example, if I have a problem/issue to research. Fiction is my favourite. :)
ReplyDeleteThat sounds exactly like me :)
DeleteMainly fiction except a devoitonal book.
ReplyDeleteThat doesn't surprise me :)
DeleteBoth, Iola ... probably 60/40 fiction non-fiction at present but used to be 30/70 the other way.
ReplyDeleteMy ratio is probably 80/20 towards fiction (although it's been about 100/0 in the last few weeks).
DeleteBoth, but mostly fiction. I love reading suspense (although I don't like it to be too graphic) a bit of romance, and I really enjoy books that have both historical and contemporary stories woven together. I almost exclusively read Christian fiction and the non-fiction is generally Christian Living and Devotionals.
ReplyDeleteJust like me (although my non-fiction is usually books on writing or marketing).
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