What is your favorite genre of book? Mine is mystery. What is your's?

[buzzycrumbhunger]

30. I don't know if I have a "favourite"

I read constantly, so I read whatever looks good on the freebie lists (e.g. BookBub or eReader Daily). I think fantasy is near the top (discovered Tolkien in like the 4th grade, and my brother got me hooked on the old Conan novels), but I also like historical novels, authors like Kathryn Le Veque (detailed medievel stuff, equally romance and warfare strategy), Wendy Vella (Regency era, also detailed and and just… fun—love, love, love her Raven and Sinclair families), mysteries, sometimes biographies, I have a ridiculous thing for Jane Austin (amazing how many Pride and Predjudice riffs there are!), and growing up on Star Trek (and a young crush on Mr. Spock) I’ll even change it up with ridiculous space/alien trash (WOW, there’s a lot out there!) Apparently, there are a lot of aliens looking for women, and they’re all better than human males (I may never grok the appeal of orcs, however…)

Tip of the iceberg. I’d say I view books as my mode of escapism because I can’t afford to do anything else (and a shitty marriage left me reluctant to even think about trying that again…), but I’ve always been a reader, even as a child. I’m just too big now to make a fort in my closet to disappear into a book. I think my high on Goodreads was the year Covid hit, and I read 367 books that year. Usually, I’m between 250-300.