So… What Do You Read?
Historical Fiction and Coming Of Age is my favourite, but…
I’m stumped. Am I supposed to be interested in one thing, one genre? It’s inhumane! Oh, the horror of boxing me into one genre forever sounds like a nightmare!
I can’t pick a niche when I write, so why the fuck should I when I read? Do I have to? Don’t make me 🙏
Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.
— Joyce Carol Oates
Depending on who I am talking to I’ll just say, well, everything, and they leave it there.
Others go ‘What! Even Erotica?’ ‘No, you don’t, what about horror?’ ‘Religious text? self-Help?’ To those, I say, definitely times 2!
And if I have to.😈
When I Say I Read Widely…
I’m not fucking with you. When I say I read everything, I really truly do READ EVERYTHING.
I’m a huge fan of Historical Fiction Novels Such as Pachinko, or literally anything by Haruki Murakami. I watch widely too but we will get to that in another story…
However, I also love sinking my teeth into reads like the Twilight saga, or They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera.
Dystopian novels are like swallowing the glowing red pill and Horror is like smoking dope (fun fact: it makes me highly anxious and paranoid).
I finally read the Classic 1984, last week, it fucked me up, I couldn’t read for 24 hours…
I read a touch of erotica mainly through flash fiction and WattPad and even in webcomics. Depends on where my brain is at that second in time.
Hell, when I’m nearing a panic attack I read(re-read) boring information posters/labels like the one in the toilet cubicle about sanitary waste, or an add for eyebrow waxing – reading calms me... (except for horror, of course)
I’ll read it all, the writer needs to get me on the page and keep me there.
Do they do that? Yes? I’m hooked for life.
Unpopular Opinion
Sorry, I can’t get into Stephen King, I tried, a few times and a lot of his older stuff is better…
I enjoyed The Shinning, thinking it would be sacrilege not to read a classic. I didn’t see the hype, it was well written, that’s it.
I also loved Mr King’s non-fiction book, but feel Ray Bradbury’s non-fiction dives deeper into what I’m looking for in the writing tip department… 🌈 ✍️
I can’t seem to stomach Dear Old Stephen’s writing?! When it comes to him writing from a females perspective, Carrie was a phenomenal story, yes, but it’s very clearly written by a man…
I respect him wholeheartedly writer to writer, just not my thing?
For a modern take on Carrie, I loved “I Am Not Okay With This” — I didn’t read this, but the Netflix Series was fucking awesome! Filled with emotional heartaches and uncomfortable in your own skin style teen angst.
Anyway, enough on my writer “god” tangent.
Yes, Everything
So to answer the original question — What do I read?
Everything.
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one. — George R.R. Martin
Bridie Dillon, Throwing words into the universe. Lover of The Simpsons ❤
