Words, Words, Words

I took a "what's your reading personality" quiz the other day.  I've always considered myself a bit of a book fiend, but seem to have trouble actually sitting down and reading lately.  Maybe I'm reading the wrong books.  Anyway, being somewhat addicted to these ridiculous quizzes, I just had to find out what my personality was.  In spite of the rather limited options for answers, my result was fairly accurate.  I got the book "aesthete".  Basically, it doesn't matter what I read, all I care about is how it was written.  It could be a poem or a play, a three volume tome or a short story, a romance or a tragedy, comedy or reality, if it is written well, I will read it.  I love the idea of that.  I've always loved words.  When I was in school, I would cover my notebooks with favorite stanzas from poems, quotes from plays, and paragraphs from books.  I have memorized "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" so T.S. Eliot's words are never far from my heart when I need them.  I want to cover my body with tattoos of words, to become the notebooks I tattooed as a student.

I wanted to set this up because I'm planning on doing a series of posts about book related things.  The posts will be about writing (of course), character development, and the art of fandom on different levels.  But I thought it would be good to let you know where I'm coming from as a reader first, not a writer, I want to be clear about that.  For some reason, I give off this writer vibe.  But I'm not, that's my sister (see the post about shameless sister promotion).

If you'd like to take the quiz yourself, here's the link.  Beware of ads, why Oprah needs ads on her site, I'll never know.  Also, there's an option at the end to click through each personality to see how you ranked.  I enjoyed that.

My Result