I definitely wait for a cover to entice me 😅 I've probably missed out on a few books, but if the cover doesn't shout at me, I've already lost interest. Ive kept the habit a teacher taught me in grade school - read the first couple pages and if you're bored, don't get it.
I'm also not a fan of the classics! And I, too, love books that leave me distraught or feeling all the feels. The ones that get a big emotional reaction from me tend to be the ones I can't forget about (The Heart's Invisible Furies, for one, as well as Beartown – two of my all-time favorites).
I definitely wait for a cover to entice me 😅 I've probably missed out on a few books, but if the cover doesn't shout at me, I've already lost interest. Ive kept the habit a teacher taught me in grade school - read the first couple pages and if you're bored, don't get it.
I'm also not a fan of the classics! And I, too, love books that leave me distraught or feeling all the feels. The ones that get a big emotional reaction from me tend to be the ones I can't forget about (The Heart's Invisible Furies, for one, as well as Beartown – two of my all-time favorites).
I also choose books by covers (and my wine!) :-) Amorphous blobs made me crack up!
I love writers who evoke the uncanny, whatever the genre.
I now find myself liking a lot of B-list classics. Those writers included in anthologies but always in the shadows of the big names.
And perhaps like you, I am drawn to melancholy. The unrepentantly sad and pensive.