Friday Memes

First up, the Book Blogger Hop guest-hosted by crazy-for-books.com.  Click on the icon above to be taken to a list of book blogs...it's enjoyable to peruse and you may just find a couple of fun blogs to follow!

“How many books are currently in your To-Be-Read (TBR) Pile?”

Um, well...my answer is going to reveal my super-nerdiness but c'est la vie!  I, uh, categorize my TBR by genre (I may or may not have a TBR excel spreadsheet).  So, here's the breakdown:

• Literary Fiction: 148
• YA: 72
• Historical Fiction: 55
• Fantasy: 49
• Mysteries: 29
• Thrillers: 25
• Beach reads: 23
• Non-fiction/memoir: 21
• Graphic Novels: 19
• Sci-fi: 17
• Classics: 15
• Fairy tales: 14
• Southern lit: 8
• Foodie: 5
• Westerns: 4
• Horror: 2
• TOTAL: 505...yeesh!

Also, Happy Follow Friday!  Again click on the pic to be taken to a whole slew of new book blogs.  The question of the day:

Q. Genre Wars! What's your favorite genre and which book in that genre made it your favorite?

 Aw, crap!  What if I don't have a favorite genre?  Can I just say fiction??  Um, let's see...if I look at my TBR breakdown, literary fiction, YA, and historical are my favorites.  In all honesty, I think I'm just playing some major catch-up in the YA category (hence its high numbers) and I would probably replace it with fantasy.

So, books that made these my favorite genres...I guess I'll have to think back to my childhood for this.  Welp, for fantasy, once I read The Chronicles of Narnia as a kid I was sold!  Oh, I also adored Lloyd Alexander novels -- superb children's fantasy!  For historical fiction, I loved the book The Child from the Sea by Elizabeth Goudge...not sure why it was so beloved to me as I recall it wasn't exactly the happiest of books.  All the same, it lead me to a most wonderful genre!  As for literary fiction, the earliest example of a book I loved in this genre would have to be Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach.  My dad read this to me, chapter by chapter, as a bedtime story when I was a youngster and it has always had a special place in my heart.  So there you have it!  Thanks for hopping by and have a fantastic weekend!