POLL - Since you've become a mum, has your taste in books changed?

This is very interesting. I'd noticed that my taste in what I could watch on TV has changed since having ds - anything with children getting hurt or kidnapped (like that stupid, stupid 2nd Transporter film ) I have to change channels or leave the room immediately.
I hadn't thought about whether I now read different stuff, but I suspect the same is true. I never "liked" (iykwim) any of that awful-childhood stuff, so would have avoided things like that anyway.
I've never been able to take animals being hurt in any way in books, though, it upsets me so much.
Am really just a bit of a softie!
Agree with noonki about the news - basically hardly watch it any more, for fear of hearing something awful has happened to some poor child somwhere...

I agree with all the above. I used to read just about anything - now I always read the back to check the plot. Anything that could confirm all my worst fears of all the dreadful things that could happen goes back straight back on the shelf! I think reading Lovely Bones as my first book after having DD was pretty disturbing!

Not really... but I:

(a) have a tendency to sob like a big girl's blouse much more than I used to
(b) am more tolerant of sentimentality in literature than I used to be
(c) find it annoying when people write about motherhood with no real understanding of it (read a short story collection recently that was outstanding, apart from the stories that dealt with babies or children, in which said babies or children were treated as sort of glorified fashion accessories. V irritating.)

Actually, probably I read more "light" books than I used to. I wouldn't say my taste has changed, just my ability to concentrate and my stamina for more "difficult" reads.

Only in as much as I used to read a book in a single sitting and really be able to focus on it, now I only get to read for 5/10 minutes at a time so can't handle anything with a complicated plot anymore

Yep - exactly like you Jacksmama. Can't read scary stuff or watch it too. In fact, the day I got home from the hospital with ds, I watched an ep of House I recorded whilst in, it was one where 2 or 3 babies died in the maternity unit At the time I was so dazed none of it really meant anything but now there is no way in hell I would watch anything remotely like that.

I pretty much only do read chicklit and historical fiction now, I honestly cannot bear anything else. I did manage Jpod to be fair (hilarious, even if people do get killed in it) but Patricia Cornwell, James Patterson, people I used to read avidly (who have gone off the boil, in fairness) I couldn't touch with a barge pole.

I went to book club with some friends last year, just for a swift half, whilst they discussed 1000 Splendid Suns. They said "oh you must read it" I said "you've just described all sorts of child horror and having to give birth with naught but a rusty spoon to assist, I can't read that stuff". They - all childfree - thought I was mad, of course.

absolutely - the thread about Lovely bones got me thinking about this.

No way would I read that now I have kids.

I also have a problem with the news.

are your children very small? my stomach is stronger now my youngest is 7