I always used to be reading, but I slowed down a lot since college and then I went off fiction about a year or 2 ago and have been reading nothing but parenting books since. However I recently read Two Caravans and enjoyed it, and have discovered I have a bit of time in the evenings to read while putting DS to bed, so I am looking for more books. Can anybody suggest anything?
It's probably easier to list what I don't like:
Depressing fashionable child abuse novels
Chick lit and/or anything utterly predictable
Fantasy
Horror/Thrillers etc
Crime
Romance (unless not utterly predictable and/or boring.)
I like things which are in the realms of believeable - ie set in the real world. Don't mind happy or sad, but I do like funny. Don't mind time period set, either.
Also - where do you start when choosing books to read, in a library or bookshop? Do you start with the bestsellers? Look for favourite authors? Pick a random shelf? I must have stopped reading when I had read all the books in the teenage section at the library and the adult section was full of boring books or trash.