What's your taste in books?

Have you thought lately about how you choose books? What you choose? When?
I recently created a list of those I had read lately and confirmed what I had known for years subconsciously: I have eclectic tastes and I want what I want when I want it.
Proof?
Here is my list of books I've read lately and I loved each one! (not in order of how I loved them but chronologically of when I read them recently. #1 being April, perhaps, or in any case months ago!)
1. Acqua Alta, mystery in Venice, by Donna Leon (3rd one of hers I've read.)
2. The Historian, vampire lit, by Elizabeth Kostova (647 pp. my friends..gotta love the history of Dracula!)
3. Rodeo Heat, erotica, by Desiree Holt, from http://www.jasminejade.com/ (hubba hubba!)
4. My Life in France, autobiography with her nephew, by Julia Child. So many edibles, so little time to live in Paris. sigh.
5. Half the Sky, non-fiction interviews of women in 3rd world, by Nicholas Kristof. Heart-breaking stories of women used and abused, suppressed. I could take only a few pp. at a time.
6. Belonging to Them, multiple partner romantica, (Oh, yeah!) by Brynn Paulin. (http://www.resplendencepublishing.com/ )
7. Cleaved by she of the Julia/Julie movie, Julie Powell. Ever want to become a butcher??? Okay, then! Here's your guide.

AND I HAVE ON ORDER & AM WAITING EAGERLY FOR...PANTING FOR the new DANIEL SILVA!!!

What does your list look like? Does it tell you anything you might not have recognized about yourself?
Know one thing mine tells me? That I am eager to see ALL BOOKS in e-format because THEN an e-reader will be well worth every penny I spend on it.
So there, to the marketing boys, and the developers at Kindle, Sony and iPad!

Reviews and Ruminations

I've received several great reviews recently -

I got a Recommended Read from Fallen Angel Reviews and from Dark Diva Reviews for Captured and Rebecca over at Dirty Sexy Books had some very nice things to say about the book. It's also pretty cool that the book is on Amazon and can be uploaded onto a Kindle.

I have to ask the question though, do readers read reviews? I'm genuinely curious. I read reviews, but perhaps that's because my friends are authors and I like to know what's up with their books. I also read reviews to figure out what I might want to purchase for my own TBR pile.

What are your thoughts? Do you purchase books based upon reviews and which review sites do you rely upon? Sometimes it seems to me...okay, I'll be honest...it seems to me that ebooks get the shaft when it comes to many high profile review sites - as if we don't exist, but I do see more and more reviewers discovering the hidden gems in epublishing - our hidden gems! I get ignored a lot, but I send my books off to the big sites anyway.

It means a great deal to me when somebody like Rebecca at Dirty Sexy Books or Susi at The Geeky Bookworm or Larissa at lala's Book Corner or Katiebabs at Babbling About Books or Chris at Stumbling Over Chaos pay attention to ebook authors. Thanks, ladies!