Blogocentric Formulations

My Reader Personality

"Blog Harbor from The Talent Pond"  PROMPT (DAY 29): Genres and reading choices. How often, if at all, you choose to go out of the borders of your reading preferences and give a chance to a genre you usually don't find appealing? Do you read all sort of books of all sort of genres or you usually stick to one type? Additionally to this question, I have found a quiz that will show you your reader's personality. Take the test and tell me which one you got https://abookandahug.com/reader-types/


My reading preferences are definitely varied and widespread. I get bored if I read one type of thing for too long and often move from genre to genre as I find things to read. For example, the 34 books I've read so far in 2018 include science fiction/fantasy (13), mystery/thriller (11), nonfiction (7), action/adventure (2), and classics (1). By the time I get to the end of the year, I'll probably add books in at least two or three more genres, and the nonfiction category alone will probably add some additional subcategories to the ones I've already been reading in.

It probably shouldn't be any surprise, then, that when I took this "Reader Type" quiz, my results were pretty evenly balanced. I am equal parts The Investigator, The Champion, and The Jokester (I literally got the same scores for all three categories), and only slightly less for The Team Player. I think it's an odd breakdown of reader types, but every time I take one of these online tests to evaluate what "type" of something I am, I almost always end up as a blend of the different types rather than distinctly one of them.

As far as going outside my reading preferences, since I like so many different types of stories, it's hard to go outside those borders. I suppose the only major genres that I don't read with any degree of regularity are romance/erotica, literary fiction, and western. I'll read maybe a handful of books in those genres over the course of a year, when a particular story stands out, or a friend recommends a specific title. Generally speaking, though, I tend to not be as interested in those stories as ones in the other genres I've listed above.