Reading is something I do often, but in more recent years I have noticed a decrease in reading fiction for non-fiction and I am starting to miss reading fiction as a whole. I am trying to increase the fiction that I read, but a lust for research usually gets in the way of it.
I miss fiction a lot and I want to share with you the genres or types of books that I enjoy the most;
I obviously enjoy vampires, but they seem to have a broad genre rather than just slotted into one and ironically they don’t often get found where you expect at libraries and bookshops. I expect to find them at the horror section, but oftentimes they are found in the YA section or even romance!
My favourite genres are fantasy, horror, YA, dystopia and graphic novels. I love anthologies too and tend to read more short stories than full length novels and I love novellas too.
I dislike romance or having too much romance in the stories that I do read, I tend to skim past scenes like this a lot, and I am not at all a romantic person! I think it has something to do with the fact that my mother consumed fifteen mills and boon a week as I was growing up! If there is one thing I can say about my mother, is that she read faster than I ever could!
For a small time during my youth I did kind of get into some of her romance books, but the naughtier ones which made her laugh a bit but also side glanced me in concern as I was becoming more and more an adult; the silhouette, blaze and historical/regency ones I liked best. But there are only so many gooey eyes and passionate forays in the bedroom you can read before you need to get a grip on your hormones and stop reading that sort of thing for sanities sake!
So for mental health reasons I avoid romance, not because I am a prude, far from it, but there comes a time when one gets tired of a constant sense of nonfulfillment, as it were.
Right anyway, enough of that!
Bitter about a misspent youth of being such a good girl and obeying her mother and never dating anyone until she was twenty purely because of the fear of the scene that would unfold just because I suggested that maybe I am old enough to go out on my own now mum? Is it obvious? Well… of course… it wasn’t normal back then and it isn’t normal now… well… Covid19 might have made that sort of thing normal now, but generally it isn’t normal is it?
But yes, I love horror and fantasy and I love humour too! Those are my genres I love to read and even write. Christopher Moore, Susan Hill, Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, Stephen King, Ransom Riggs, Roald Dhal, David Walliams, Frank L Baum, George McDonald, Edgar Allen Poe, Max Brook, Anne Rice, Brian Froud to name but a few of my favourites.
There will be more in depth posts in future about what I like and even why.
Happy reading all!
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