30 day book meme: Day 18
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18. Bought on a recommendation.
Most of the time, when I choose books to read it's either a) I already know the author and want to read more of their stuff, b) I think it sounds like the kind of thing I'd enjoy from having heard/read various people talking about it rather than one specific recommendation or c) I'm searching for books that fit some specific criteria that I want to read about, and will check out anything that's relevant regardless of whether anyone else likes it.
However, when I do go for recommended books, there are several people on youtube who are a great source for relatively obscure, good and interesting 19th century books. I remember I got the recommendation for A Drama in Muslin by George Moore from Books and Things, and that's a really good book—I've since also read Esther Waters, and will hopefully get round to some of Moore's other books eventually. I'm not doing the Victober challenge this year, because I have too many other things on (and want to keep going with my Hornung read-though which has very annoyingly just left the Victorian period), but I'll certainly go back and watch people's round-up videos to get some more good Victorian recs.
18. Bought on a recommendation.
Most of the time, when I choose books to read it's either a) I already know the author and want to read more of their stuff, b) I think it sounds like the kind of thing I'd enjoy from having heard/read various people talking about it rather than one specific recommendation or c) I'm searching for books that fit some specific criteria that I want to read about, and will check out anything that's relevant regardless of whether anyone else likes it.
However, when I do go for recommended books, there are several people on youtube who are a great source for relatively obscure, good and interesting 19th century books. I remember I got the recommendation for A Drama in Muslin by George Moore from Books and Things, and that's a really good book—I've since also read Esther Waters, and will hopefully get round to some of Moore's other books eventually. I'm not doing the Victober challenge this year, because I have too many other things on (and want to keep going with my Hornung read-though which has very annoyingly just left the Victorian period), but I'll certainly go back and watch people's round-up videos to get some more good Victorian recs.
