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Readers read for many reasons

  • Apr. 3rd, 2008 at 2:12 PM
mummy_horse
Sometimes readers read for idiosyncratic, stupid reasons.

I just checked my email and found a post from a mystery-related mailing list. In it the author extolled her latest book, warned us that it is super-cozy (we are in the midst of the semi-annual round of cozy-versus-hardboiled, in which the hardboiled people sneer at the cozies and I lose my temper--AMAZING AS THAT MAY SOUND TO YOU ALL!!) and suggested we check out her Web site. While there, she also suggested we check out her astonishingly beauteous great-grandchildren.

So I did.

And the great-grandchildren are, in fact, so astonishingly beauteous that I went directly to the public library site and found a book by her, which I placed on hold.

Yes, I will actually read a book by an author just because her great-grandchildren are astonishingly beauteous.

Observe for yourself!

And besides, now I know she is a truthful lady, so if she tells me the book is good I have reason to believe her...

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[info]library_of_sex wrote:
Apr. 3rd, 2008 05:32 pm (UTC)
Hands down the strangest reason I've yet heard of why someone would read a certain book. :P
[info]coneycat wrote:
Apr. 3rd, 2008 05:38 pm (UTC)
I agree, but you should see the great-grandchildren!

[info]library_of_sex wrote:
Apr. 3rd, 2008 05:41 pm (UTC)
Aww, they're so cute!
[info]shalanna wrote:
Apr. 3rd, 2008 09:31 pm (UTC)
And this brings up the question again--what IS "cozy" these days, anyway? I thought that it just meant your violence happens offstage and there's not overt blood/guts and other fun stuff. It is like a warning label saying "this won't give you nightmares with violent scenes." However, the way people are talking on DL, it sounds as if "cozy" now has gone back to meaning that the book takes place in a tiny town of elderly gossips and the narrator talks incessantly about knitting, crocheting, or catering. Wait! My book isn't like THAT at all! It just isn't a thriller and isn't supposed to be . . . it's a "traditional" mystery. I wonder whether our terms are evolving again.

(That littlest baby looks as if she'd like to get the camera out of her face--she wonders what that crazy box that flashes at her could possibly be! But I'm disappointed--I went over there thinking that her grands must be _horses_ or cats. They're cute, but I figured they must be pets to get this kind of recommendation! *GRIN*)
[info]coneycat wrote:
Apr. 4th, 2008 10:59 am (UTC)
Nope, I am very fond indeed of tiny humans. Wait until I start posting pictures of [info]latsyrk's darling little man!

And yes, it's spring, so it's time for the latest neener-neener go-round about whose subgenre can beat up whose. I really should have the sense to stay out of that by now, but I never do!

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