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By: LinnieGayl

LinnieGayl — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:48:19 +0000

I’m somewhat adventurous in my reading. Each time I select books for review here, I try and pick at least one or two by authors I haven’t tried before. As a result I’ve come across some authors I’m now a big fan of.

I also belong to a mystery book group which means each month I read one book that I pretty much wouldn’t have selected on my own. Some of those have resulted in new auto-buy mystery reads.

By: Blythe

Blythe — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:09:04 +0000

I’m a fairly adventurous reader. Most of that is driven by my reviewing – I usually try to review authors I haven’t reviewed in the past, so I’m usually reading someone new or at least new to me. I also read something for book club once a month, so I cover a lot of new ground that way.

I would say I’m much less adventurous with TV. Watching any new show seems like a huge time commitment to me.

By: Sharon

Sharon — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:27:33 +0000

Reading is more labor intensive and takes up much more time than catching an hour or even half an hour of a new show. My lesiure time is quite limited as well and so I would have to say that I am not “adventurous” about readings given my time contraints. Depending on the size of the book, it takes me anywhere from 8-15 hours to read a novel. So, I rely on word of mouth and strong reviews to alert me to new authors and novels. I love reading book reviews, movie review, and literary criticism and put all potential books to a pretty strict test to assess their “readibilty” factor for me each month. I love the process though!

By: HeatherS AAR

HeatherS AAR — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:02:10 +0000

Like many of you, price is a factor in how adventurous my reading can be. A lower price point is certainly an incentive for me to branch out and try new authors. Plus, if I totally hate the book, I don’t feel quite as bad giving up on a $0.99 ebook versus one for which I’ve paid full list price. Right now I am enjoying the heck out of Stacia Kane’s Unholy Ghosts, which I bought for either $0.99 or $1.99 (my brain has frozen and I don’t recall which lol). It’s the first book in an Urban Fantasy series and I’m certain I’ll read the following installments. So that is certainly one instance in which a lower price worked to the advantage of reader, author and publisher.

I also tend to try new authors when there is considerable positive buzz surrounding their work from my fellow reviewers and our message board posters. Of course there is no guarantee that I will love the same thing, but for me I think the name of the game is minimizing risk and trying to maximize resources in order to read more and better quality books. Again, no guarantees, but I hardly ever have a negative reading experience this way and have discovered some truly wonderful books and authors.

By: Julie

Julie — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:53:44 +0000

I’ve become more adventurous because of my Kindle. I’m always looking for free books on it and a lot of the ones I find are by authors I’ve never heard of. Before my Kindle though, I’d have to say no, I wasn’t adventurous at all either