Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Genre-ly Speaking Tag, created by @CriminOllyBlog
Cherry-picked from @AliceandtheGiantBookshelf

The Prompts:
1) A horrifying book that isn't horror
2) A book with a terrible crime that isn't a crime novel
3) A book about love that isn't a romance
4) A book with a puzzle that isn't a mystery
5) A book with magic that isn't a fantasy
6) A book that thrilled you that isn't a thriller
7) A book with science that isn't science fiction

the GOODS-
1) Victor Frankl's Search for Meaning
2) Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men; and Exodus
3) ditto, and Ramayana
4) Georges Perec's Life: a User's Manual
5) Tom Robbins's Another Roadside Attraction
and Italo Calvino's Baron in the Trees
6) Shahnameh, Sundiata, Martin Fierro, and other Epics
7) Aldo Leopold's Sand County Almanac; and any Peter Matthiessen

TAGGED:
@songofmyshelf9749 @headoverbooks15 @ALatteThoughts @unclearlyclaire @thebookdreamersalley @thebibookboy794 @TheWordN3rd @thewitchyreader6131 @LisaOfTroy @katiecantread @kate_1910 - all chosen from BTer who at one point made a small booktuber tag video in an effort to connect small booktubers - if anyone has been tagged inappropriately, I apologize.

CONTACT readDANculous at dan@greenmail.net
Special thanks to @Zenpointmediastudio for the jams!