The Creative Pragmatist’s Library;
I created the term Creative Pragmatist to give my label’s (Tibi) designs a more apt description than that offered up by an industry that insists on viewing style through a singular lens (sexy, sporty, classic, modernist, etc.). I appreciate when a word can convey much - like the Russian word “Toska”:// “a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without a specific cause; a longing with nothing to long for.” Life, our thoughts, what we create is nuanced. We have words, and I want to use them to convey what things truly mean, rather than to leave someone guessing, frustrated or confused.
Book genres have always left me feeling this way too. “Mysteries, Romance, Non-Fiction, Business” - this tells me so little! It’s like having a red fruit section in a grocery store, it doesn’t give me any idea how something is going to taste, if it will be bitter and savory or sweet and pungent.
We fixed the problem and created our own set of GENRES. In fact, when I wrote Almost Reckless these genres were in the back of my mind. We asked you to populate a list of your favorites by genre and you did; the results are here*:
Look out for Part 2 Tomorrow. The Genre’s that fit ever so neatly into Ring 3 and Ring 4, sparking deep thoughts and sometimes just the compfort of a brain put on pause for a minute. Or two. For summer.
*we received MANY submissions; we included the books most frequently mentioned and most emphatically defended.