It’s weird how we classify books; children’s fiction, crime, history, etc. As if you’re only interested in a certain book because it has been sorted into an arbitrary type and then judged accordingly.

I understand that’s how capitalism likes to do things but it’s still odd.

@SimonWoods yeah! It seems limiting to try to write for a certain genre, too (an author I know ended up writing a book that ended up falling into its very own category outside of the existing genres). I'm now imagining a bookshop or library without classifications, just randomly-assorted books, haha.

@SimonWoods I read and write romance, which has very specific genre conventions, so it's very helpful for me to see something that sounds like a romance not being marketed as one, because that probably means it has a sad ending and I don't wanna read it 😄 Outside of genre fiction it's probably less helpful 🤷‍♀️ I find categories trickiest to define for nonfiction I read: is this memoir? self-improvement? general cultural analysis? history told through a personal lens?