In books, you dorks. Heh.
I once talked about these in a Sunday Coffee post, so let me start with those bookish turn-ons. I’m immediately drawn to books if they:
- are set on a cruise
- involve shared dreams
- involve reincarnation through many lives or reliving the same life multiple times
- have love-distance falling in love, especially through phone calls or letters
- contain elements of the occult
- involve telepathy of any kind
- are set in the Middle East or involve Middle Eastern culture (in a way that isn’t antagonistic)
- have characters that deviate from the normal bi-gender cultural roles
Those are the ones I discussed about a year ago in that post. Two more things I’m drawn to are:
- books that in some way retell or revisit Phantom of the Opera or Jane Eyre
- nonfiction related to food history or food science (thought not diet-based books)
What sorts of things make you immediately want to read a book?
Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish.
The Zen Leaf 
Speaking of Jane Eyre, did you see there is a new novel coming out that is all about Mr. Rochester? I’m so excited!
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I didn’t! !!! Can you link me out to it?
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https://hachettebookgroup.com/titles/sarah-shoemaker/mr-rochester/9781455569809/
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Is it the Sarah Shoemaker one? That’s what comes up when I do a google search.
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Yes, it is. I know I was asked a few days ago if I wanted a review copy. I was saying no to May releases until I saw that one. I couldn’t resist!
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I wouldn’t have resisted either, if anyone had offered it to me, haha!
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Have you read Life After Life by Kate Atkinson? It’s brilliant, and it’s about a woman who keeps living the same life over and over, but subliminally learning from her mistakes. It’s amazing.
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I tried reading that one but couldn’t get into it. I’ve thought about trying it again on audio sometime. It was last fall (when my brain wasn’t focusing well) that I tried it, and that could explain the disconnect.
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#4 makes me so happy! My boyfriend and I met through his blog (where I now co-write TTT posts with him) and fell in love through increasingly long letters. Do you have any recommendations for books like that?
Here’s my TTT. 🙂
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My favorite of all of those is Possession by AS Byatt. It’s probably why I fell in love with that book so hard! I also really love Crossed Wires by Rosy Thornton, though that’s more phone calls than letters.
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Romance books with phone calls or emails are so satisfying to read. Have you read Attachments by Rainbow Rowell. That was a great one! ^.^
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I have! I like some of Rowell’s other books better, but Attachments was still very good and fun to read!
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