Reading differences between the sexes

[Jim Flanagan]

About women and crime novels: my mother devours those semi-
trashy "true crime" books, which she buys at her local used book 
store.  A supermarket paper bag full costs about $12, and they give 
her 1/2 credit for each book that she returns. At least this is 
better than the Home Shopping Channel!

She's not interested in literary fiction, though she will sometimes 
read realistic crime fiction and historical novels like Michener. 
Getting her interested in something like HP would be a complete 
impossibilty. She takes after my grandfather, a frugal Texas-German 
farmer, who said, "why would you want to read something that's not 
true?"  

-Jim


--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Pigwidgeon" <pigwidgeon at i...> wrote:

> I was interested with the crime stories more often in the females 
> section. I did not know what to make of this as I personally would 
> have expectated them to be more likely to be read by males (having 
> said that I do not read many crime novels so maybe it is true).

> Simon