Oh, good point! It's like the author doing the talking instead of letting their characters take on a life of their own and developing their own independent voices.

Non-fiction: interesting. I is true that in the last years, I started a number of non-fiction books which I never finished. But I also had really good experiences. I remember that Michio Kaku's Hyperspace left me thinking for a long time. Also Carlo Rovelli's The Order of Time. But then I tend to be drawn to popular science, and in particular popular physics.
Fully agree with the interesting and well written!

Nice! So that's the fascinating thing: take the same book and ten people will have seen it through ten completely different lenses. I haven't re-read Wuthering Heights in a long while, but what I remember is simply the feeling of being on the moors with the characters. I have somehow forgotten much of the interactions. I guess that really makes me a settings person rather than a character person ;)
Haven't read the Song of Achilles, thanks for the tip!

Older member of my family - I think they learned strict rules at school which were somewhat arbitrary. I personally don't think language is ever 'incorrect'. It just lives...

Being bored by predictable stuff: oh gosh, I can so relate! :)