netmouse: (Default)
netmouse ([personal profile] netmouse) wrote2009-08-28 11:00 am

A poll for the gents on reading

Please only participate in this poll if you self-identify as having a male gender.
I know it's hard to remember what-all you've read recently, but please try.

UPDATE: for anthologies, please count them as the gender of the majority of the authors.
FURTHER UPDATE: Please don't eliminate books from reporting in this poll based on their topic or genre, then comment afterward to tell me how the stats would be different if you hadn't done that. The poll is not intended to be aimed only at fiction, or SF - the question at the end is an add-on. The goal of the poll is to survey the genders of the authors of ANY BOOKS you read in the past 2 months.


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[personal profile] holyhippie 2009-08-28 06:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Right now, I can't remember the last time I got a chance to read fiction for pleasure. I have a lot of books in the shelves in my office, but very few bought in the last five years.

All my reading of books these days is reading out loud to my kids. Even then, I can't remember very specifically exactly what I've read; and for a bunch of what I do remember, I couldn't tell you who wrote it.

There are exceptions - My son likes the "Magic Tree House" series by Mary Pope Osborne. I know I've read from several of those. I like the books by Sandra Boynton, and my kids do too. I like to read Dr Seuss books, my kids have more mixed reactions to those.