Fandom Snowflake Challenge - Days 3, 4 & 5

Day 3 - done! Day 4 - working on it! Done!

Day 5

In your own space, share something non-fannish you are passionate about with your fannish friends.

The word passionate kind of throws me. There are times when I'm envious of people who can find something they love and sustain a long-term, focused interest in it. That's more what I think of as passionate. I tend to drift from interest to interest, unable to main a long-term focus (granted, brain fog has something to do with that.)

Cooking? Yes, I like cooking, I like being competent at cooking, I like trying new foods, I like collecting recipes. But I listen to people who are really passionate about food ... and that's not quite me. I guess my longest term interest, something that I don't even think of seeing as a passion because it's just a part of me, is reading.

It utterly baffles me that there are people who don't have bookshelves (including, until recently, my brother and sister-in-law.) I was an avid reader from an early age; developing CFS and winding up mostly housebound only encouraged my readaholic tendencies. I never go a day without reading some kind of book. I tend to walk around the house not looking where I'm going because I'm reading (which is fine provided Mum doesn't rearrange the furniture) and I can do many tasks one-handed because I work with a book in the other hand. The times when the brain fog has been so bad that I couldn't read anything remotely complicated or even new were horrid.

What kind of books do I read? Well, back when we had Borders, a visit there would involve a look at fantasy & sci-fi, romance, crime, classics, maybe YA and very occasionally general fiction. Non-fiction? HISTORY! Sociology, religion, biography, science, but in the end it boils down to history. Not the grand, sweeping view but the personal. The daily lives of people in other times and places, how they thought and worshiped and ate and fought. I like to be able to understand why people acted the way they did and you need to know about all of their life before you can. Not always possible but I like to try. (It's possibly why I increasingly have very little interest in current news - it's so ephemeral and how do you sort out what's important in the long-term?)

I haven't posted my reading round-up from last year yet (I don't know why I stopped doing monthly posts. *frowns*) but going by Goodreads, I read at least 119 new books, fiction and non-fiction. Reread at least 60 others, probably more.

I'm not even going to guess at my to-read pile. And I don't think I have a lot of books, really ...