why I read what I read

dear self,

my reading choices are being questioned (including my favorite author and how I experience her stories). So here is why I read what I read.

part of my girly library

I  read fantasy, urban fantasy, paranormal romance, romantic thrill, young adult, and rarely "normal" romance - in short I read "women's books"- and hey, if you haven't noticed, I am a woman. I am allowed to do something girly. This is one thing I can do easily and naturally, while I have real trouble with lots of girly habits. So self, let me be girly for once!


I read for entertainment, to get a short vacation from every day life. Why would I choose a vacation in heavy and troublesome? Honestly, I choose something easy, entertaining, funny and lets say unimportant, something I can forget tomorrow.

Some series I've read for years and the characters are totally familiar, my friends and my fictional family and I want to follow them further, see what they are up to, what happens in their world.

native creative - Judd is my boyfriend shirt

I like stories about survivors with happy endings, not because real life has happy endings but because life so often does not give us happy endings. If I read I want something giving me HOPE. I want it to inspire me to take another step. I like stories about people going for their dreams. I like stories about people having lived, having been hurt and then taking risks, trying again.

I don't care about the brain f*** of dead shrivelled up guys already eaten by worms, however important they might have been. It is old, past, over. I am crazy and I can think for myself, I don't need someone else's mental craziness.

Romance novels often include sex scenes, some more some less. It's part of the package, part of the road of getting to know someone. I stopped reading a series because the sex scenes were taking over the story. Also I did not read 50 shades of Greysiness, not interested, no thank you, because ...

I read books that make me feel good.

I watch movies that make me feel good.

I listen to music that makes me feel good.

and I write my truth on my blog because it makes me feel good.

If that makes me mortifyingly girly, I'll put on my big girl pants and forget it already.