Reading Moods
Does your mood change what you were planning on reading?
When life is especially grim, I will often turn to humorous works for sheer escapism. Indeed, I think humorous writing has a major role to play here. Funnily enough, the cosier end of the crime market can have a similar effect.
I have to be in a reasonably upbeat mood to begin with to cope with anything grim reading wise. That decision is backed by the fact I only have so much time in which to read so I want to make sure I enjoy what I do read!
For non-fiction, if I’m reading history (as I currently am with 1000 Years of Annoying the French by Stephen Clark), I find mood matters less.
Regardless of mood, whatever I read, I want to “zip” along and finish my reading session feeling I could have carried on reading all night if it wasn’t for the need to get some sleep!
So over to you then. Do you find you have to be in the right mood to read at all? (Not a problem with me - I will read, it is just a question of what I read).
Do you find your mood dictates what you read (as it can do for me)? Or is it a question of working your way through your To Be Read pile methodically?
When life is especially grim, I will often turn to humorous works for sheer escapism. Indeed, I think humorous writing has a major role to play here. Funnily enough, the cosier end of the crime market can have a similar effect.
I have to be in a reasonably upbeat mood to begin with to cope with anything grim reading wise. That decision is backed by the fact I only have so much time in which to read so I want to make sure I enjoy what I do read!
For non-fiction, if I’m reading history (as I currently am with 1000 Years of Annoying the French by Stephen Clark), I find mood matters less.
Regardless of mood, whatever I read, I want to “zip” along and finish my reading session feeling I could have carried on reading all night if it wasn’t for the need to get some sleep!
So over to you then. Do you find you have to be in the right mood to read at all? (Not a problem with me - I will read, it is just a question of what I read).
Do you find your mood dictates what you read (as it can do for me)? Or is it a question of working your way through your To Be Read pile methodically?
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