Reading

Felt like writing a blog entry again ;p

I've been reading books again a lot more recently after several years of just not really reading any sort of books at all, and I just started using my Kindle to do so since I've got one so why not use it and in doing so I remembered how much I used to read on it which really got me thinking about why I just kinda stopped for a few years... And what I think it is is just English classes (as in like essays and reading and such class, not foreign language). I used to read quite a lot and now that I've found stuff I like to read again I've been reading a lot recently too, so you might think I'd like English classes as I liked reading and even used to like writing a bit (in elementary school me and a couple friends wrote Warriors fan fics I've sadly luckily lost to time), but I've always hated English classes in middle / high school... I dunno, I really enjoy just getting into a book and enjoying the story, but tell me to find the theme and track the story progression and all that and I hit one of two outcomes, I manage to find something resembling a theme at the cost of hating the book and my time reading it or I get too caught up in enjoying the book to keep track of that... Same thing for movies, I could never for the life of me take notes during a movie in class, but I guess I was just so bad at taking notes school never ruined movies for me. So because of this I think I just kinda slowly lost interest in reading throughout middle and high school as it turned from a fun way to experience a world to a task of finding quotes and working them into a theme...

As a kid the series I read the most was the Warriors cats series, also Harry Potter some, but that's about it. I probably read through the entire series of both of those at least a few times... I've just always kinda enjoyed experiencing the same few things repeatedly, is that weird? I've just got a few albums I mostly listen too, basically the only games I play are like Minecraft, Pokémon, and Mario Kart, there's a few YouTubers who I'll basically just stick their whole channels on shuffle every few months, etc... That's kinda getting off topic though

Recently I've been reading mostly trans / lesbian books online. Some of them probably do have enough theme and stuff to work well for English class book reviews or what not, but also just fun trans fluff and the like. I think I was really able to start getting into reading these again since their just stories on websites, not like actual paper books like you'd always read in English class so I was able to get into them without the mindset of reading a book for English class and was able to just enjoy reading them again... Side note but I always feel weird calling online stories books... Like their effectively the same, usually a decent book length when finished, their stories that are written... with words... made of letters... their just published to websites for free and released chapter by chapter as their written instead of dumped out onto paper all at once... I dunno, novels? webnovels? books?

Welp now I've gone and written an essay on why I don't like the class that taught me how to write essays, haven't I? Guess its conclusion time so... I guess I just got this thought in my head and wanted to write about it since it just struck me as kinda odd how the class that always pushed to read books really just turned me away from them for several years... Heck I even despised writing essays in English class yet this is almost a standard 5 paragraph essay right here, I think English classes just never really worked for me... I like reading, I like writing, but I don't like reading to find something, I just like to read for the experience... I also never liked the whole moving on to "high school books" because "kids books" are too low level or something... Like what really makes reading a Shakespeare book all that much better than reading a "kids" book about clans of wild cats besides the language being so old its kinda hard to read, there's plenty of people (or cats) killing each other in both lol. Huh, you actually read through this? Thanks? Sorry? I dunno, I'm just trying to write more so have some thoughts ;P


Edit: Wow, I wrote this without JS on so I had to write it all in BBCode and I only made one mistake ;P