Happy Friday! I hope you’ve all had a great week. I’ve mostly been doing more house projects, namely building wardrobes! Fingernails were definitely at risk!
Let’s Talk Bookish is a weekly bookish discussion meme created by Rukky @Eternity Books and co-hosted by Aria @Book Nook Bits and Dini @DiniPandaReads. Each Friday, bloggers will write posts about a particular topic and share on their blog.
Our first topic for April is all about Reading Relatability.
Real life can be a lot. Do you enjoy reading books with high relatability to your past or present situation (i.e. with relatable characters, situations they face, or places they visit) or do you read purely to escape reality?
Speaking about my fiction choices here, I predominantly read for fun. Reading is my relaxing hobby, my time to unwind and forget about whatever else it is I need to be thinking about. My genres of choice reflect that I think – I am a reader of speculative fiction. By default, these books are usually nothing like our reality. Of course, there will always be themes and character traits that do mirror what’s going on in the world or that one can relate to but for the most part, fantasy is fantasy.
It’s probably also a good time for me to mention that I am not an emotional reader. Like, at all. I very, very rarely get affected by the fiction books I read (non fiction is another story). Even if I do pick up a fantasy novel that mirrors some awful thing happening in the world, or where something terrible happens to a character, chances are it will just wash over me. I have a logical brain, so I am very good at being in ‘reader mode’ where I just absorb the world I am presented with but don’t attach myself to it. So even though I am essentially ‘escaping reality’ there are parts of me that will always remain grounded.
Do you seek out a certain type of read, depending on your head space or mood?
I have discovered over the last couple of years that I am more of a mood reader than I thought. Even still, I do tend to stick with loose tbrs. I make lists of books and pick from there except for if I have an arc deadline to meet.
As I said above I am a logical person at my core rather than an emotional one, so it’s not often I find myself in the wrong headspace for a book. There are definitely times when I will be in the mood for something specific, often if I’ve read a lot of the same type of thing I’ll be after a change, but for the most part I just pick at random from my lists.
My answers are pretty short this week! I guess I don’t have too much to say since I run on logic instead of emotion LOL.
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