I loved to read so much as a kid that I would get in trouble for reading all the time in school. I stopped in high school because I needed time for all the required reading and other homework. Now I’m in college and I have time, but can’t find a single book that looks good to me. I want to go to a book exchange party where you bring a basket with a book and goodies themed around it, and I think it’s good incentive to start trying to read again, but I need suggestions.
My major problem is that I need a book that isn’t defined by one particular genre. I like fiction, but I can’t take fantasy or dystopian books seriously anymore. I’m not interested in murder mysteries. I don’t care about romance novels (I need something non-smutty for the party anyway). I am bored by “everyday life” books, whether it be about coming of age or grief or whatever else. Historical fiction tends to bore me the same way “everyday life” books do, with a select few exceptions. I want something with a little bit of everything, a little romance, a little mystery, a little magic/impossible circumstances. Something thought provoking without being something you’d read in school, and full of suspense and problems that are all somehow connected and the main character has to figure it out.
by mdowhfos
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