Reading Pt. 1

What do I read?

Before I say anything about that, let me just say I don’t think you can be a writer without being a reader. Revolutionary words, I know, which I’m sure no one has ever said before. Okay, now that we have that out of the way…

My reading habits have changed over the years. I got my first library card when I was five. I already knew how to read at four but the library wouldn’t give me a card at that age because I wasn’t in school yet. My Grandma Brown, who was a schoolteacher, was extremely mad about that, so the family story goes. My source of books for many years was the city library and then school libraries. I remember vividly the library at each of the schools I attended, probably because I spent so much time in each.

When I started mowing lawns, I came up with a little disposable income. Working a part-time job starting in my mid-teens gave me even more. I spent a lot of money on paperback books. And later, I added comic books into the mix.

Book-buying continued and with a steady paycheck in my twenties I had the ability to buy the latest releases in hardback. And I did.

Now I rarely buy the physical coipy of a book, at least compared to those earlier days. I still love the feel of a good book in my hands, but most of what I read right now is on Kindle Unlimited. My wife likes to listen to books, but I prefer to read.

Now you know the medium I use for reading. Back to the original question: what do I read?