What type of book do you enjoy?

[violet]

I confess to a love of older-fashioned murder mysteries. I don't want "racy" or blood and gore, just a good mystery.

I do not like romance novels. I do enjoy some autobiographies. Actually I have reasonably broad tastes, but most of all I enjoy something that's beautifully written, like most of Isobel Allende's work, or the excellent Memoirs of a Geisha, by Arthur Golden. The latter book was a fascinating insight into the history of the Geisha, and Japan, rather than an "expose" of any sort.

If I think about it, I could go on for hours. Anyone one else have a favorite genre?

[braided-rug]

I am not really fond of murder, although I have read two murder books, actually three this year and survived lol.

I used to love autobiographies when I was young, ie 18 or so.

I started reading romance of the historical and Christian kind but didn't know they were romance until I was hooked.

I guess they just followed on from Little House on the Prairie, well Janette Oke and her Love Comes Softly series seemed to anyway. I guess that is where it started. Three years ago I reread Little House alot because it was relaxing.

[violet]

Janette Oke is an author I've not read anything by yet. Her books seem to be very, very popular.

What does she write about?

[braided-rug]

The Love Comes Softly series starts out with a couple going West like in Little House on the Prairie. The husband dies etc.

The Canadian West series is about a teacher in Toronto in a good family who goes to teach in a small school in about 1910.

I suppose she writes about families.