Round Table: How We Pick Books to Read

[tessagratton]

We love books! Obviously! This month we decided to chat about how we pick what books to read, especially our favorite ways.

How do you guys pick books? Recommendations? Blogs? Browsing? Let us know in the comments - especially if there's a weird way you do it. We love weird things.

Here's our take:

Tessa: so we're talking about how we pick

Comments

[lunalila]

I don't really have a great bookstore in the area I live. There is one in the town next to mine, but it's an academic bookshop mostly dedicated to education and kids and YA lit. Most of the time, it's OK with me because I do buy lots of kids and YA lit. They also have fidelity points and I get discouts quite a few times. But sometimes... if I want something that isn't a best seller, or it's a bit oldie, or just it's published by a small pubbed house or it's... not in Spanish or Catalan... it isn't enough.
Then, in another town I got an indie bookstore. It's really small. They can only store a few books for each genre they handle. But still. They order whatever you want. And they mail you when it gets to their place. They even ordered a book "from England" because it wasnt in Spain, and I waited for them, not Amazon. And they are nice, and read a lot, and when I go there I know I'll spend about an hour or so talking about books and they will tell me about the ones I don't know but they think I might like. And now... they've made a FB profile for the bookshop so I can talk to them in a weekly basis. And they send us tips and news on the book industry. So I love them. Dearly :).
Anyway blogs, and goodreads and peeps I know that like same books I do have always been real helpful.