I love to read 🤓 (Patreon)

Ever since I was little, I've always loved reading. Not to learn or to study, but to just read for fun. My parents always say that I was the one who taught SisterUnmuted how to read... I don't know if that's true 😅 but we did used to fall asleep reading together, sleeping on one bunk, surrounded by books.

But for various reasons throughout my life, there have been extended periods of time where I've just stopped reading. A lot of that has been because school can um... take the fun out of anything, but my health has also been a limiting factor a lot 🙃

In highschool, after a couple years of just being sick all the time, I got a library card and started to get so excited to read again; I'd always check out 3 books at a time and finished them all before the return date. If I walked the hour home from school (which I usually did), I walked past the library, so it was a great setup. But then in my last year of highschool, I was in pain... constantly. I couldn't even sleep because the pain would wake me in the middle of the night... so it was... distracting and exhausting and made reading pretty hard.

I eventually got back into it and started reading a lot, but as I think we all know by now, my brain (aka Myrna) likes to attack me a lot 😅😬 So for the past few years, between near-constant migraines and frequent seizures, it's been exceptionally difficult to get through a book. In 2022 I think I read about 10 books total, but in 2023 I didn't even finish one (granted, I was concussed for about half the year, but still 🙃).

But as you likely also know, I've finally started a new treatment for the migraines, which just also happens to prevent my seizures! 🥳 It's not 100% effective, but I've finally been able to read a bit again, and I am thrilled about it!!

I'm currently reading "The Invisible Life of Addie Larue" by V.E. Schwab after fiiiinally finishing "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern (great book, highly recommend). My favourite, though, is still "Wise Man's Fear" by Patrick Rothfus, and its a sequel 👀 Who knew some sequels are better than the original? Although, the same is true for ACOTAR ("A Court of Thorns and Roses") by Sarah J. Maas...

Do you enjoy reading for fun? What's your favourite genre? (Mine is clearly fantasy 😅) Do you find you have/make a lot of time for reading?

Would love some recommendations now that I'm able to read more!