On cold, dark, and snowy days when you can't enjoy the great outdoors for fear of getting frost bitten in less than a minute many people like to play video games with their friends, or pop in a movie, or even just sit in front of the TV and aimlessly channel surf; this is not me. My favorite-est, most enjoyable, and entertaining thing to do on such gloomy and dismal days is curl up in front of my fireplace in my most comfortable and warm pajamas with a cup of hot cider and a good long novel. I honestly spend the whole day in that one spot, never leaving, except to eat my favorite apple and cheese snack or grab a few more logs from outside for the fire before it dies down too much. I can't think of anything more enjoyable or relaxing.
I love to read just about anything: science fiction, biographies, autobiographies, historical fiction, political ( actually I lied, I tried reading a few of them but they were too boring and monotonous even for me. I don't think anybody could make politics sound interesting or exciting) fantasy, romance, mysteries, non-fiction, you name it. If I were forced to choose which genre I like the most I would have to choose historical/realistic fiction. I love to read about history, but sometimes history books can be a little bit too dull. They will focus so much on sharing all the information that is known on the subject that they hardly ever focus on the individual people that lived during such times. Historical fiction solves that issue. It not only covers the historical side of thing but it also allows you to see a little bit into the lives of the people, turning a 2-D piece of literature into a 3-D world where you can relate and get to know the character in the novel.
Reading has helped me so much over the years. Not only did I see a difference in my grades (especially in my writing classes) but I noticed that I just randomly know a lot of different things. I don't know what it is about me, but I can have a difficult time remembering stuff for school, but I'll know a lot of random facts and trivia that normally not everyone would know. It helps a lot when your playing Trivial Pursuit let me tell ya.
I loved this post! I've never before lived in a place where it snows or had a real fireplace (ours was gas), but I love to just spend the whole day reading. I'll read almost anything, and be perfectly content. Books are such a comfortable medium.
ReplyDeleteI am super impressed that you spend cold and yucky days reading. I must admit I always spent them in front of the television. And I agree, reading does teach you so much, even if it is random facts.
ReplyDeleteYour reading spot sounds lovely! I hope you can spend a lot of time there over Christmas break (since I'm assuming you're referring to a home that isn't student housing, since no student housing I know of has fireplaces). I'm glad that you read widely; I think it's important even to try things we don't like, so we can at least figure out what it is about them that doesn't appeal to us.
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