Niche Books: Booking Through Thursday
June 11, 2009
Fun question from Booking Through Thursday:
What niche books do you read? Asking about the esoteric or off the wall knowledge bases represented on the bookshelf. Although it’s a question about niches, I’ve got a lengthy answer:
- Books about writing poetry. I love guides to forms like villanelles and sestinas.
- Books about exercise, from a personal training perspective. Certification guides and other technical info. The course on how to teach yoga taught me a lot about communicating in general.
- Guides to fashion, from the business/entrepreneur side- thanks to a writing gig I just started.
Also, I don’t think it’s too off base to say that I have a niche for mysteries. I love smart, funny mysteries starring medical anthropologists. Kathy Reichs and Aaron Elkins cannot possibly write and publish fast enough to satisfy me.
- I don’t think it’s too
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That’s interesting that the yoga books taught you about communicating in general. I love it when you get an unexpected bonus like that!
I too have a couple of poetry writing books. I love those!
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I’m right there with you on the fashion books! Here are mine: (1) and (2)
Kathy Reichs is on my dread pile o’reads.