I probably wouldn't say that my tastes have changed per se, more like refined.
Authors I like get collected to a degree, books that are "important" find a place on my library and there is a wider range of authors and styles available to me.
I don't dismiss the frivolous - I love my Agatha Christies and read 20 - 30 of them each year. My range of Australian authors is growing. My cookbooks now probably make up 50% of my library.
I also get to read books chosen by a friend who manages to surprise me every time with something new and exciting.
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Cookbooks! Now that's one category I hardly touch except when I'm in need of them! ;P
Oh, I love Agatha Christies.
:D
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I couldn't live without my cookbooks Melody - have over 300 now. And another few hundred still in storage on the other side of the country :-)
I love her too Gautami although I did make the mistake one year of reading 8 back-to-back in 3 days. The formula became increasingly obvious with each book... sigh. Now I space them out a bit more lol
How handy to have a trusted friend to recommend books for you. Reading is definitely a communcal activity, isn't it? The blogosphere has filled a gap for me in that regard.
P.S. I mean "communal." :-)
I used the word "evolved" but I think my answer was similar to yours. And I love a good Agatha Christie too; I've had a wee run of reading them lately. :)
Another Agatha Christie fan here. ;-) And I too made the mistake of reading too many of her books last December and January, so I know what you meant by the formula. :)
My answer is similar to yours, but I think you put it down more clearly with "I probably wouldn't say that my tastes have changed per se, more like refined." Refined is the word that nicely explains changes in reading tastes.
I love a good mystery, yet oddly enough, have never read any of Agatha Christy's books.
While I've ALWAYS loved mysteries (& other fiction & historical-romance), as a youngster I read all the Trixie Beldon, Nancy Drew & Hardy Boy books, eventually moving past them to random authors before settling in with these favorite authors: V.C. Andrews, Andrew Greely, John Jakes, Jackie Collins, John Grisham, & Sidney Sheldon.
Plus I'm a huge fan of true-crime author, Ann Rule.
And my cook-book collection contiues to grows too... just last night I sat in the swing with a stack of my cookbooks, pouring through them. ;)
Agathat still has the power after all these years! One helluva formula when you think about it :-)
Pita I have never read John Jakes - what sort of books does he write?
Actually, John Jakes writes a variety of things, including childrens books and science fiction/fantasy, but his works that I'm familiar with are the historical-fiction. "The Kent Family Chronicles", which is broken down into 8 novels (I'm about 1/2 way through #7), and he wrote "The North & The South" trilogy. Both stories were made into mini-series for tv several years ago.
Thanks Pita - I will keep an eye out for him :-)
It got me thinking and I did reflective account. What I read over the years has changed but what engages me has remained pretty constant. Yes cook books collected and used a lot over the years but only to dip into so sadly underused
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