My readerly identity

As a reader I am very imaginative. I like to get lost in a text and create my own images in my head from the words the author has written. When reading for pleasure I like to relax and let my thoughts take a break from anything too serious. I notice that I am really not interested in books about history or non-fiction books. This thought concerned me a bit because I would get more useful information from these genres so why do I run from them? I think it could be because those fall into the category of books that I am “forced” to read for a class or project. When I am told I have to read a book and make myself absorb its information I will likely do that and then forget what I read once the assignment is complete. I like to read texts for my own reasons and form my own opinions about them. I admit I have fallen prey to reading popular books that everyone would talk about such as the Twilight Series or Fifty Shades of Grey. But I find that many of these super popular book series actually (forgive my language) SUCK! I am not a perfect writer but come on, who edits these books? How did they get published? There is just horrible writing in many of these books. The other issue with these series is that the authors all allow them to become movies! This takes away from any image I would create about the book because I wouldn’t be able to get the actors and setting that a director created out of my head. It just ruins my personal interest and excitement in reading fiction.

So.. this is what I know about myself as a reader so far…