Hello, dearies! Welcome to a new rambling about a bookish topic.
Because yes, I will ramble a little bit. Did you know that there is a book genre that is called: nonsense or non-essential? I didn’t know it was called that, but I have read the main book in this category, and you might have as well.
But alright, let’s first answer a few things, like what it is, and what it means when reading.
What is a NonSense Genre in Books?
It’s a literary style where the rules of logic, language, and reality get twisted on purpose. Things don’t always make sense sometimes they contradict themselves, sometimes they’re whimsical, absurd, or surreal. But it’s done intentionally to create humor, fantasy, or a dream-like feeling…
So, in essence is a book or story that does not follow common logic or things are out of sorts like Alice’s when she is in Wonderland because if you were thinking about it, yes that is the main example.
Now, what books are in the nonsense category? Please note, that does not mean that the book is bad or it “doesn’t make sense”, it is the focus of it to have little common logic.
Here are a few recommendations.
4 NonSense Books
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
And Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, too, of course.
Here’s a quick description: Alice in Wonderland is a classic novel by Lewis Carroll that follows a young girl named Alice who tumbles down a rabbit hole into a whimsical, illogical, and often bizarre fantasy world.
In this surreal realm, she encounters iconic characters like the White Rabbit, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, and the tyrannical Queen of Hearts.
Edward Lear’s limericks
Several stories or limericks?
This book features three classic children’s stories by Edward Lear: “The Owl and the Pussycat,” “The Duck and the Kangaroo,” and “A Book of Nonsense,” along with over a hundred original black and white illustrations. In “The Owl and the Pussycat,” the two main characters sail away, where Owl sings a proposal. They get a ring from a pig and are married by a turkey, but this summary doesn’t fully capture the charm of Lear’s tale.
The Phantom Tollbooth
It seems this one shares some similarities with Alice, but don’t believe me I haven’t read it, but that is what I saw online. So, The Phantom:
For Milo, everything’s a bore. When a tollbooth mysteriously appears in his room, he drives through only because he’s got nothing better to do. But on the other side, things seem different.
Green Eggs and Ham
As for this one, I didn’t even know existed, but it goes like this: “Do you like green eggs and ham?” asks Sam-I-am in this Beginner Book by Dr. Seuss. Sam persistently questions if you would enjoy them in different places, like a house, with a mouse, in a boat, or with a goat.
Also, one of my books is a nonsense book; if you’d like to learn more, it is titled: Behind the Tree Line.
But why do people like this style of book? That’s a vast answer since everyone is different, and it might be a little difficult to pinpoint the actual answer. Some close guesses, I would say, are because nonsense books have some of these elements: Escapism. Creative freedom. Unpredictable storytelling. Playful and light-hearted.
However, that’s completely up to you, maybe you just like a book in this genre because you do, no reason behind it.
I like Alice in Wonderland because of how fantasy-like Wonderland is, and because of what it represents beyond the normal world, so perhaps that would fall into liking ‘escapism’ and ‘light-hearted’, I hadn’t thought much about that.
But in any case, that is what this book genre is, if you ever read a book that felt like it was nonsense but it actually wasn’t, then that’s probably how the writer wanted you to fell.
If you’d like to know about other unheard-of (less popular) book genres, let me know in the comments. You can always check out my other post about what a novel of manners is; I do like to ramble about things like that.
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