My love for reading

Hello, I'm back. First, I want to thank you all who found time to read my first blog.  I had 68 views. Not bad for a first time blogger?  I recently posted an article about bento lunches and another subject kept popping on my head. Contrary to my blog address, i will not be limiting myself to articles about kitchen, cooking or food recipes.. i want to talk about everything I'm interested in.. there's a lot of things to talk about. Or write about.

For those of you who are my friends in Facebook, you must have seen my posts of books I have been reading. Yes.. I just love to read. I don't know why and I can't remember when I started reading books. I just love it.  I could spend days not going anywhere as long as I have books lined up for me to read.  I'm not sure if this counts but I have a vivid memory of me when I was barely six years old, I was in a classroom and the teacher was asking me to read something on the green board.. I was a transferee from another school. I think she was testing me if I should stay in kindergarten or move to first grade.. back home first graders were supposed to be 7 years old.. then she said I read good and was admitted to first grade..

During elementary days I was into Mills and Boon and Silhoette. These are publishers of books written by different authors, mostly fictional love stories. Then I started Nancy Drew series.  High school was when I started having favorite authors.. I love to read books written by Jude Deveraux and Johanna Lindsey ...both of them used to write romance novels about fictional royalties...but I prefer Jude Deveraux more. I used to daydream a lot about her characters. Like I am them..Haha. Typical teenager dreaming of being a princess and meeting her Prince Charming. I remember reading past midnight, sometimes until the break of dawn...now I seldom read Jude Deveraux. I probably outgrew her books.  And besides , she doesn't write about princesses and duchesses anymore... but mostly about descendants of characters from her previous novels... then I read Danielle Steel and Judith Krantz. Danielle Steel books makes me feel sad after reading them, I kept telling myself I should stop reading her books, but I couldn't... I read them all. The recent one was a few weeks ago.. regarding Judith Krantz, I really love her characters, especially Princess Daisy...She didn't write a lot of books. Too bad because I think she is a  great author. College days was when I started reading suspense/thriller/gothic books....I read Sidney Sheldon and John Grisham. And who could forget Anne Rice and her vampire chronicles? The first book, Interview with a Vampire, has movie adaptation. We all fell in love with Louis and Lestat, and of course the child vampire, Claudia with her famous line "I want some more!".

Then Harry Potter came! I must say this is the best book ever written. Just my opinion. but I know a lot of people would agree with me. I couldn't wait for J K Rowling to publish the rest of her books.. The characters are so lively. Who wouldn't fall in love with Harry, Ron and Hermione? When I finished all the 7 books, I got so worried, because for a long time no other book was interesting anymore.. J K Rowling wrote more books, even under a pen name Robert Galbraith.. but these books are nothing compared to Harry Potter.. I bet even JK would agree. In fact, she has written another Harry Potter story, not as an 8th book,...but as a play. Which will premier next summer in London.

Of course I wouldn't forget about the Lord of the Rings.. and The Hobbit. Although I must say the movies are better than the books.

I also read all of Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth series.. I found out about them because they became a TV show Legend of the Seeker..

Twilight series came.. and Hunger Games, Fifty Shades of Grey and Divergent series. But still not as great as Harry Potter.. a lot of people love James Patterson. I got curious why and read one of his books...that was months ago.. let's just say I don't get him.. Before that, I found out about Lee Child because of Tom Cruise's movie Jack Reacher.. I found out that its a series...I read them all. Jack Reacher is better than Alex Cross. haha.

Nowadays I check New York Times Bestseller list to find out what books to read.. i like Chevy Stevens. and Gillian Flynn, the Gone Girl author. FYI, she lives in Chicago! I wish I could meet her. I wonder where she hangs out? I could bump into her!  I have also read a lot of Young Adult books, which are mostly about vampires, angels, wolves, witches and other mythical creatures.. I got tired of it... can't they write something else? Lol..

Since last week I'm reading Nancy Drew series.. I was gonna introduce them to Sophie but end up reading them again..

Who knows what I'm gonna read next. Right now, I have no idea. I still have to search for more interesting books.. but one thing is for sure.. I will continue to read. For reading is something I can't do without...