Hi All,
This whole Hi All Podcast series, done for Toastmasters, has been about my struggle to read from childhood on into adulthood.
Comic Books got me through school. Rarely was there a class assigned book that I enjoyed. Only after getting out of the structure of education did I find things on my own that I enjoyed to completion.
First came fantasy, and then science fiction, and then a love for mystery stories.
What I found however was that no matter the genre I had to enjoy the characters and their relationships to like the book. For me a fantasy couldn’t just be about the dragons, a science fiction story shouldn’t just be about spaceships, and mystery isn’t all about deductive reasoning.
I would stumble upon a genre that fit what I really needed in a book with interesting characters and relationships. That genre: Romance.