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Originally Posted by Kumabjorn
Well, strictly speaking it might be a tad to personal to call it a genre, if I did it would have to be "Parental Genre".
I was casually browsing the Kindle Store for some new reading material when I came across James Michener's Hawaii. Haven't I read that I asked myself, but reading the description and comments I realized that I probably hadn't read it before, but I knew I'd seen it somewhere. After a while it dawned on me, it used to be on my mothers's night stand when I was a little girl just starting school.
This piqued my interest enough that I bought the book. It also got me thinking about what my parents used to read, and I decided to look for other books I remembered, Leon Uris's Exodus came to mind, Clavell's Shogun was another example. Anyway, I bought a bunch of books that I recalled them reading. Is this something the rest of you do? Usually you'd have to find something like this in a used book store, but with e-books they are suddenly easy to get hold of. I suppose some part of me is trying to find out more about who my parents were.
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Guess I'm of the parental genre in person lol. My parents had horrid reading taste (dad was penthouse and mom was the very occasional harlequin) Guess that is why they never understood my need to read.