Dragonofbooks
Reading mysteries, historical fiction, biographies, history, interior design, architecture. Getting back into fantasy, vibing a little bit with scifi
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October 2026
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The mystery, setting and characters were decent. I did like the ending and solution. The vibes were kinda giving a southern version of Northern Exposure. The romance could have been slower though. I think, with everything else going at a steadier pace and more realistic to the timeline (2-3 weeks), the romance needed to go slower to match that pacing. Even with the characters going back as far as they did, they hadn't really known each other and they're adults now. They were learning more about each other, and themselves, and making friends as adults.
John Candy: A Life in Comedy
Paul Myers
Dragonofbooks commented...
I sort them by genre and then categories if it works. I also make sure that genres flow together. I'm ok with splitting authors up if they write in multiple genres, but I keep series together.
For example: I have enough mystery and thrillers to where I've grouped them. I've got manga, contemporary thriller/horror*/mystery, classic mystery/thrillers and then historical mystery/thrillers. It flows into historical fiction from there.
*I don't have a lot of horror books and the horror I have are also thrillers/mysteries. I've got one on my tbr that's all three + historical fiction.
I'm in the process of putting up new bookshelves (very exciting) so I'm currently overthinking the best way to sort my books (I think buying books, reading books and organising books are three separate hobbies actually!)
Before now, I kept categories together so I had poetry, graphic novels, non-fiction, short stories etc. But my fiction books were only separated by read or unread. I want to start organising by genre instead, but this got me thinking - should I still do separate categories, or just sort everything by genre?
For example, most of my short story collections are horror and most of my graphic novels are fantasy. I always used to have a classics section, but isn't really a 'genre' either and those books could be romance or coming of age or horror... I'm curious if everyone prefers to keep categories together, or do you mix everything together as long as the stories are the same genre?
In general if you use multiple organisation methods, did you have to sacrifice one for another? How do you decide what to prioritise if a book can fit in multiple places?
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