I’m only asking as I’ve been having a think today. I’m feeling a little too constrained if I’m honest. I’ve brought it on myself as I’ve let the focus narrow on my blog. Blogging about books is hard. Well I find it hard. There are a lot of books that flow onto the shelves of book shops. And blogging about them is like dipping into a stream with a net and seeing what you can catch. Lots are going to slip through your net.
The easiest way is to impose constraints. In my case it was focusing on speculative fiction. A place I’m very happy in but it has its downsides. Although my bookshelves have a high percentage of speculative fiction I also have two shelves of poetry (which is quite a lot due to there thinness), several shelves on Eastern thought practices, and books on writing.
The trouble is that I’m getting to the point were I want to share books like Risk, a non-fiction, The Collected Poems of U. A. Fanthorpe, and The Good Plain Cook, Bethan Roberts next book after the challenging Pools but it’s something I don’t feel comfortable with at the moment.
The solution I’ve come up with is to remove the barriers. I’ve always said that I don’t care what people read as long as they read. So my new tagline is going to be:
Reading shouldn’t have limits
It’s not going to a drastic change but it is going to allow me to feel that I can blog about a more diverse range of books and explore things like the Welsh Book of the Year, which has an all women shortlist this year or tell you why U. A Fanthorpe is my favourite poet and wrote the best love poem ever.
I really should have called this post: How do you choose what NOT to read next?
But I am still curious do you always read within your favourite genre? do you stick to the same writers? do you actually think about it or just pick something up?
I’d love to hear what you do!
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