Hello, my name is Melissa and I am ADDICTED TO READING!!! Reading to me is sort of like eating and breathing... I MUST DO IT!
I enjoy reading novels - i.e.: womens fiction, historical fiction, action/adventure, romance, paranormal romance, fantasy, sci-fi, etc.
I especially enjoy reading novels that me think, make me laugh,...
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Hello, my name is Melissa and I am ADDICTED TO READING!!! Reading to me is sort of like eating and breathing... I MUST DO IT!
I enjoy reading novels - i.e.: womens fiction, historical fiction, action/adventure, romance, paranormal romance, fantasy, sci-fi, etc.
I especially enjoy reading novels that me think, make me laugh, make me cry - anything that will stimulate my over-active imagination!
My favorite books are the ones with strong, resourceful women as the main characters. Strange as it may sound, I do prefer to read novels written by women authors. It's not that I am prejudiced against men - I just find it easier to relate to those novels written by women.
I especially like books with tones of mystique and magical realism. I believe life is a much more mysterious and magical place than we like to believe and I enjoy books with those subtle undertones of the un-mundane part of life. I also really like historical fiction; I love how they transport me to another time when life was difficult and very different.
I try to read everyday - even though I work a full-time job and have a five year old son and a husband too. I also take the current book that I am reading (whatever it may be) everywhere with me - you never know when you're going to have an extra minute to read a few more pages.
I think literature is such an important part of life/society. Everyone can learn something from a book; a feeling they never knew they had inside themselves, thoughts and ideas you'd never pondered, an interest in places/people they'd never even thought about before, etc.
I try to share my love of books with others as well and get them to see what they are missing by not reading. Hopefully my addiction is contagious, I especially hope my son catches the reading bug, hopefully he will grow up to be an avid reader like his me (I get it from my dad). I'm happy to say I think he will. :-)
Words are powerful and they can affect us in ways we never even thought of!
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