I’ve had many hobbies over the years ranging from outdoor sports like pickup Basketball to even playing video games for endless hours at a time. However, no matter what the age or chapter of my life, there has always been a single hobby that has stuck with me for decades on end. An interest that hasn’t faded in the slightest. That hobby is reading! I absolutely love reading. I’ve been reading books since I was ten years old - The lion the witch and the wardrobe being my first - and haven’t slowed since. Sure there were times where I entered a reading slump and stopped reading as many books a month but heck, who hasn’t a slump in their life? Goes without saying, I average a reading total of 108 books a year. That’s nearly ten books a month and 2 to 3 books per week. I’m almost certain I’d be able to read more if the books I typically read weren’t nearly a thousand pages long.
The Genre of books I gravitate towards reading and never really tire is definitely fiction. Fantasy to be more specific. I enjoy escaping into a fully fledged made-believe world filled with magic and secrets. Captivating characters that take hundreds of pages to build leave me completely invested, sharing an emotional attachment most of the time. I understand these types of books aren’t for everyone and seeing as they typically carry a whopping page number of minimum 500 pages with multiple books lined up in series, one can certainly understand why. I also enjoy other genres such as , Thriller, Mystery, Biography and memoirs in that order. My favorite author is Anne Rice with her phenomenal book series dating back nearly forty years called the Vampire chronicles. Although she remains my favorite author, my favorite book of all time has to be “The name of the wind” By Patrick Rothfuss. An absolutely breathtaking novel and perfection in my eyes.
My most disliked genre of books are Science-fiction or Sci-fi for short. I just don’t really enjoy these type of novels as much I wish I would. It just seems more times than not, I’m left trying to calculate the formulas given to me or even attempt to recreate certain parts of a chapter like a darn engineer in space. It’s unfortunate because my all time favorite film is actually Interstellar... Now, this isn't a bash towards science fiction books, just one persons humble opinion. I'd just rather read other more intriguing genres that spark my interest.