Are you Trendy?

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Are you Trendy?
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Tue, 04-25-2006 - 8:48am

There are a lot of trends in book genres these days. Chic Lit is popular is is the Supernatural with Vampires being in the lead I think. Do you keep up with the latest trends? Or do you just read what appeals to you and if it happens to be hot well okay?

What are some trends that you notice in your reading circles? What authors are "in"?

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Registered: 02-15-2005
Tue, 04-25-2006 - 10:09am

I don't know if I'm keeping up with trends or just picking up books simply because so many people are talking about them....or is that the same thing??? ;)

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Tue, 04-25-2006 - 10:13am
I guess i follow trends to a certain extent.If something is being talked about alot.I just have to check it out.

 

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Registered: 03-29-2005
Tue, 04-25-2006 - 1:05pm
I'm with you.
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Tue, 04-25-2006 - 1:06pm
I can't afford to be a trend reader at the moment. Plus wouldn't help with getting all those older TBRs of my shelves. However, I have picked up a book here or there because of rave reviews and eventually give a try. I read the first in the Laurell K. Hamilton series and do have the second but haven't read it yet. That's about as trendy as I get.


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Registered: 12-12-1997
Tue, 04-25-2006 - 3:29pm

I read what I like, which is why I don't belong to any book clubs that tell me what to read (I like the one here because I have the choice to read it or not, lol).


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Registered: 10-15-2005
Tue, 04-25-2006 - 3:52pm

I tend to be trendy, because I love to talk about what I'm reading and it's easier to find people who have read the trendier books.


I am still picky with the genres, though. I still haven't gotten into any Bridget Jones-esque books, but I hopped on the Dan Brown train pretty quickly.



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Tue, 04-25-2006 - 9:37pm
I read what I like. I have read some chic lit and enjoyed it. I do read supernatural stuff. I've never read a vampire book and doubt if I ever will. I enjoy many genre's, but I don't read what everyone else is reading and seldom read bestsellers unless they are of interest to me.
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Registered: 09-13-2005
Tue, 04-25-2006 - 10:13pm

I read what interests me, I read A LOT, and if it happens to be a "hot" book so that people know what on earth I am raving about when I ramble on enthusiastically, so much the better.

(However, given the fact that my FAVORITE genre is SF/Fantasy, most people are still confused by my recommendations, LOL. Even on the SF/Fantasy board here at the Village, I don't think very many people have read most of the authors that I have. The Thrillers/Horror board knows almost every horror author I've ever read, though! And yes, in Thrillers/Horror vampire fiction is VERY popular. But vampires are always popular. They're classic horror, popular even back in Victorian England; look at Carmilla and Bram Stoker's Dracula, for example.)

I do have to thank this board and the Fiction Lovers board for several good recommendations though, that I might not otherwise have thought to read. For example, The Widow's War, and The Widow Of The South. (1000 White Women and The Red Tent I discovered on my own, and a coworker turned me on to Jodi Picoult with My Sister's Keeper.) Looking forward to mnay more reads as suggested by my fellow book lovers here!

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Registered: 09-02-2003
Tue, 04-25-2006 - 11:06pm

I don't necessarily follow the trends, but if something is trendy and being talked about alot it is very likely to catch my attention. Then I read some blurbs and stuff and decide if it might be something I like.

Other than these groups online I don't know alot of other readers.

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Registered: 02-25-2006
Wed, 04-26-2006 - 9:25am

Too a certain degree I guess.

~Linda

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