Armchair BEA ~ Genre Fiction

Sharon Lathan

Sharon Lathan is the best-selling author of The Darcy Saga, a ten-volume sequel series to Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice.

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[…] Discussion of “genre fiction” with my list of favs […]

Michelle Fidler

I’m a big library user too and am here using the Internet. I read lots of mysteries and always have. I also read the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew and Trixie Belden. When I was a teen I started reading Agatha Christie and Sherlock Holmes and other British mysteries. I like Harry Potter too but not other fantasy.

I have books all over and lots of bookcases.

Carole in Canada mentioned Tasha Alexander’s books. They are actually set in the Victorian era and not the Regency. I read one recently and I think it was set in 1893.

Carole in Canada

That’s right, my mistake…Tasha Alexanders’ books take place during Queen Victoria’s reign.

katy

I never really pick books based by genres, I just like a wide variety of stories and settings. I will read anything that sounds intriguing to me. I fall in love with engaging stories and characters and don’t worry about what genre it is in. I love seeing people that feel the same way! I’m going to bookmark this post for recs!

my Armchair BEA day 2 post

Carole in Canada

I totally agree with that quote! I devoured books all through school (Tolkien, Tolstoy, Bronte sisters, Arthur Conan Doyle, Homer) and had to laugh when you mentioned Victoria Holt and Mary Stewart as I read them too! I continue to devour books and have many favourite authors, especially Austen Authors! Outside of my Austen Authors, I love Julie Garwood, especially her historical romances, Judith McNaught, Mary Balogh,Mary Jo Putney, Karen Marie Moning, Stephanie Laurens, and Diana Gabaldon as I find these authors develop their characters and their stories beautifully. Susanna Kearsley is another favourite and a new author (to me) I found in the past couple of years, Tasha Alexander who writes Regency mysteries. All is all, I love historical romance and change it up with contemporary novels. The best part is when there is a series, so I don’t have to leave the characters behind!

Annette

I read a huge variety of genres too. I do love the bookshelves, though. Beautiful!

Bookish Temptations

Love the picture of your library. I was a big library junkie when I was young, and then after I had kids it was a favorite place to take them. Awesome post!

Sharon Lathan

Thank you very much! I should say that I got those shelves from Staples. Very simple things, and they are “media cases” measured for DVDs and CDs, which is the perfect size for the average paperback! I have a few wider shelves for other bigger books.

Sophia Rose

After reading that definition of genre fiction, I now understand why I can’t tell the difference when asked. It seems vague to other people too. LOL!

I love that you speak out for how much quality there is in the genre books if you’re willing to look for it.

Sharon Lathan

Some people can’t survive without placing everything into neat compartments. I don’t get that. I am a super organized person, but sometimes things just don’t fit like they should and I have to let it go. I don’t understand the need to label and categorize every book. Weird.

Emma

I love your quote at the end of your post.
It’s neat to witness your reading journey, thanks for sharing.
I love Tolkien as well

Sharon Lathan

Isn’t that a great quote? I saw it online – not an original Lathan, I confess – but it leapt off the page at me. So very true! Guess that is why I write a continuing series that is a sequel: I don’t want to leave the world. 😀

Mary Jo Burke

I learned to read with a book of poems. My favorites were Poe, Frost, and Dickinson. Any non-fiction favorites? Robert Caro’s LBJ books are excellent. Shelby Foote’s Civil War books are wonderful too. Impressive book collection. I’m sure it’s in the first wing of your library.

Sharon Lathan

Non-fiction is covered later this week, Mary Jo. I won’t have too much to add since non-fiction has never been a big favorite for me, but I do have a few. 😉

Susanne

Sharon, I agree with every word you wrote. There are so many bokks that don´t fit in just one genre. The story and the characters are important and it is important if the author can capture me.
I love the picture of your bookcase. Books are everywhere around me. And I have dozens of unread books. I can´t stop buying them. But as I am reading most of the time, besides work and some homework, I read one after the other and buy even more…..

Susanne

Sharon Lathan

Thanks Susanne! I couldn’t wait to rearrange my daughter’s old bedroom to be my library! Of course it has also ended up a general catch-all junk room, but at least I got my awesome shelves!

Vesper

I know many adults who have read the Harry Potter books and love them – personally I think that they are okay for children but I just didn’t like them . Love LOTR and the Pern novels though.

Sharon Lathan

The beauty about novels, Vesper, is that there are so many to choose from and readers can find those that “speak” to them. That reality is one of the main reason why, as an author, I cringe and want to scream over the so-called “rules” of how all novels, especially those in a particular genre, have to be plotted or written. Thank God for brave authors who buck the rules and give readers what they want!

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