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Why did no one tell me my eclectic tastes would change...

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BlingLoving · 11/05/2012 17:39

I used to be famous among my friends and family for eclectic book tastes. I could happily read teenage romantic fiction, follow it up with a few good vampire reads then move onto something fairly classic, take a break with a good crime story then get my brain engaged with the latest hot new literary book. You get the picture.

When I ws pregnant and had just had DS I was too tired to read anything that required a brain. I reverted to vampire and werewolves only. And even then, mostly I just watched bad tv. Then I came back to work and I found that actually, I could read on the train and I also was a little more engaged. So I started reading a few books that were recommended by friends - nothing too hardcore but you know "good" fiction, in between the vampires and werewolves Grin

But... now that I thought I was up for more, I find I'm not. I wanted to read some post apocolypse stuff which I've always loved, but the thought of all those children dying destroys me. so I thought I'd try a good crime drama, but the one I picked started with a woman being tortured and I found I just couldn't carry on. So then I thought, sod this, I'll go for crappy teenage stuff but all I could think was, "for pete's sake, this is so unrealistic."

I'm doomed. I love reading. But this level of emotion is not helping!

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faeriefruitcake · 11/05/2012 22:39

Baby brain strikes. I've gone back to M&B, no thought required guarenteed happy ending as very unrealistic, no sad things they make me cry.

BellaBearisWideAwake · 11/05/2012 22:43

I know exactly what you mean. I've trawled teenage and not so teenage romances on my kindle. I just can't cope with bad things happening. it is starting to clear now and I found myself pondering Wolf Hall this afternoon. And another thread had me rereading Dorothy l Sayers. So there is light at the end of the tunnel. In the meantime I am happy lining the pockets of JR Ward!

TheMightyMojito · 11/05/2012 22:48

Marking place... Although feminist critiques of the vampire/werewolf stuff pretty much destroyed the escapism for me. :(

BlingLoving · 15/05/2012 12:16

Coming back days later...

MightyMojito - I hear you. I can just about cope with reading silly stuff, but the truly awful, "woman needs constant rescuing" stuff is beyond me completely.

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BlingLoving · 15/05/2012 12:16

Hilariously, after my post, there was a column in The Times about this. Written by a man! So I realised it's fairly widely spread and not entirely hormone related.

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Quenelle · 18/05/2012 13:45

So have you found anything BlingLoving? I have the same problem (although have never been into vampire stuff).

Nowadays all I can read is travel stuff. Do I have to wait for a new Bill Bryson before I find anything unputdownable again? Sad

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