Reading Habits !

 

So, I have started reading fiction. Well, I find it tough to call it reading because what I am actually doing is listening to someone read the book out loud to me while I go on with my chores or driving to and from office. For ease of mention, I will hereinafter refer to this act as reading. From reading Secret Seven, Famous Five and dabbling a bit with John Grisham , I went on to read more about people, their lives and essentially more of non-fiction. I had a type - women who are successful and when they write about their lives, I read them. Even on audiobook format, I have listened to Michelle Obama's Becoming over any other genre. Recently my friends and I made a pact to do a book club of sorts and we read Margaret Atwood's The Heart Goes Last. We are still awaiting the time when the 3 of us will actually sit to talk about it and by then we need to go through it all over again so we do have the talking points we had made mental notes of while actually reading it. It prompted me to buy her autobiography Book of Lives. Then I went on to read The Handmaid's Tale. Yes, I read it and I have not watched the Netflix series yet. 

Last year, sometime in December, I realised my Audible subscription was on and I had a couple of credits available. Someone suggested Never Lie by Freida McFadden and I think I finished it over a weekend. 

Then I became a serial Freida-book fan. I have read a couple of books already and I am having the time of my life listening to them, guessing the plot and the end, like I always do thinking I am the best at predicting the plotline ahead of time. I have always failed miserably every time. So here I am enjoying books by an author and then there is a barrage of folks on Instagram dissing her work. At some point of time, it is almost like people reading her books are made fun of. Then I sit and wonder, this used to happen with Chetan Bhagat's books as well. Those days I never read books anyway, so it did not bother me. 

However now when people question my choice, thankfully, I am old enough not to care. I am enjoying reading her books. They are quick. I don't lose interest in it(which happens very easily for me). The narrators bring so much life and emotions into the reading. I think they are the ones who make this experience all the more fun. Some of them are top notch. The most recent was Ward D narrated by Leslie Howard. I will try to remember their names too next time so that I can chase for the narrators and listen to their narrations. 

Right now I have 3 FM books in my library , ready for reading. My best friend and I are trying to time The Co-worker together. Will be interesting to see who finishes it first. I limit my listening time at home because I do not enjoy wearing earphones all the time and not everything is child-friendly content that can be played on speaker. I still find a way. She reads really fast. So let's see how that goes. My only suggestion to you if you read any book is to not worry about others' opinion on your reading choices. There are millions of books out there. If you find joy in reading something, go do that. There could be a lot of books that are hyped and you may not even like it. Just have fun doing what you are doing. Until next time, Happy Reading ! 

P.S: The image on this blog is not entirely unrelated to what I have written. It is one of the many things that I do while "reading" the books. This is a pipe cleaner flower pot in a photo frame background.