{"id":11571,"date":"2017-12-29T18:59:03","date_gmt":"2017-12-29T13:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travellingthroughwords.wordpress.com\/?p=11571"},"modified":"2017-12-29T18:59:03","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T13:29:03","slug":"my-reading-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travellingthroughwords.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/29\/my-reading-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"My Reading Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi everyone. I hope you all are doing well.<\/p>\n<p>Since the year is coming to an end I decided to sit back and look through my reading journey and see how my tastes have changed. Luckily, I have almost always kept a track of the books I have read either through Goodreads or writing them down in my diary.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s start at the beginning, shall we?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ithinkwecouldbefriends.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Read-places-youll-go-5x7.jpg\" alt=\"Image result for the more you read the more you will know\" width=\"385\" height=\"539\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I have always enjoyed reading. I started by reading storybooks such as Moral Stories For Children, fairytales, Panchtantra and also by reading the stories in my school books. From then I started exploring my school library and just read whatever interested me from there. Soon after that, I borrowed the Harry Potter series from one of my classmates and also read the Twilight series. I&#8217;m not sure which one I read first but I was already a Potterhead since I had watched the movies. This is the time when I became a voracious reader and actually fell in love with books. After this started my Young Adult phase.<\/p>\n<p>From then on I basically started looking for a lot of YA books and I first read the Percy Jackson series while continuing to read random books from the library.<\/p>\n<p>In the beginning of 2014, I read some YA fantasy books and a lot of contemporary. Then I got obsessed with Wattpad and spent the rest of the year reading mostly teen fiction books from there.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, I realized that I had really wasted a lot of time reading just the same kind of books and luckily I grew out of Wattpad and hardly read from there again. This year was a mix of Young Adult, contemporary, a few classics, some graphic novels and a lot of New Adult Romance books which I got hooked too. Even though I wasted a lot of time reading the same romance stories, 2015 was a good year since I read a lot of different authors and explored some new genres.<\/p>\n<p>2016 is a mix of a lot of New Adult, some YA, and a few random books.<\/p>\n<p>Now lets come to this year that is coming to an end. It consisted of mostly review copies, very few romance, some awesome YA contemporary audiobooks, 3 classics, thrillers and lots of newly released books by Indian authors.\u00a0I won&#8217;t say that this was a bad year because I read some really good books but it wasn&#8217;t perfect either and that&#8217;s okay for now. I just think I spent most of the time reading review copies and I want to change that from the coming year. I also want to be pickier when it comes to books and read different types of books so that I make the most of my reading experience.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"color:#000080;\"><strong>I tag all of you bookworms to share your reading journey with us. Whether it is through a blog post or commenting down below, do whatever you prefer!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/image.freepik.com\/free-vector\/happy-new-year-greeting-card-2018_1120-264.jpg\" alt=\"Image result for happy new year\" width=\"385\" height=\"385\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi everyone. I hope you all are doing well. Since the year is coming to an end I decided to sit back and look through my reading journey and see how my tastes have changed. Luckily, I have almost always&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/travellingthroughwords.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/29\/my-reading-journey\/#more-11571\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &#10142; <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My Reading Journey<\/span><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[70,280,376,378],"class_list":["post-11571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-book-discussion","tag-life-in-books","tag-reading","tag-reading-journey"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10757,"url":"https:\/\/travellingthroughwords.com\/index.php\/2017\/10\/14\/adventures-in-farland-by-moshank-relia-book-review\/","url_meta":{"origin":11571,"position":0},"title":"Adventures In Farland by Moshank Relia (Book Review)","date":"October 14, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Add this book on Goodreads Genre:\u00a0Children's Fantasy Publisher:\u00a0Rumour Books India Release Date: October 19th 2017 Pages:\u00a070 Format:\u00a0Paperback My Rating: 4\u00a0stars Mira and her friends Bira and Vira are on their way to Gunhill when they are meet Bushy, a funny man with ladybugs in his hair. He tells Mira that\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Book Reviews&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/images.gr-assets.com\/books\/1506875661l\/36335839.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3625,"url":"https:\/\/travellingthroughwords.com\/index.php\/2017\/01\/17\/my-2016-reading-review\/","url_meta":{"origin":11571,"position":1},"title":"My  2016 Reading Review","date":"January 17, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Even though I only read 74 books in 2016 in caparison\u00a0to 145 books in 2015, it was still a pretty good reading year. I tried some great new authors\u00a0and read many good books. Besides this, the highlight of 2016 for me is this blog. I started Travelling Through Words and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"2016 books\"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/travellingthroughwords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/23493256-150x150.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":11541,"url":"https:\/\/travellingthroughwords.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/03\/november-2017-wrap-up-nonfictionnovember\/","url_meta":{"origin":11571,"position":2},"title":"November 2017 Wrap-Up #NonFictionNovember","date":"December 3, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Hi everyone! How are you all? November was tough. It was probably the most stressful and emotionally draining month I've had this year. I'm glad its over. My reading suffered too and I was only able to read 3 books and 1 very short book. I have a lot of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Miscellaneous&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/images.gr-assets.com\/books\/1310136461l\/264390.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":627,"url":"https:\/\/travellingthroughwords.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/02\/my-reading-more-diversely-jar-my-ultimate-tbr-jar\/","url_meta":{"origin":11571,"position":3},"title":"My Reading More Diversely Jar \/ My Ultimate TBR Jar","date":"April 2, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"For the last couple of\u00a0\u00a0years it has been quite a trend to make TBR (to-be-read) lists and jars in the book community. I had a list for 2015 and was successful in completing most of them. However, this year i didn't want to put pressure on myself and just wanted\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"books\"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/travellingthroughwords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/books-4-150x150.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":11624,"url":"https:\/\/travellingthroughwords.com\/index.php\/2018\/01\/13\/2017-reading-year-in-review\/","url_meta":{"origin":11571,"position":4},"title":"2017- Reading Year In Review","date":"January 13, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Hi everyone! I wish all of you a very very\u00a0 Happy New Year! May you never run out of books to read. This post is so hard to write. I guess that's because I have to reflect back on the last 12 months and write it down. It is difficult\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Book Reviews&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"Happy New Year!","src":"https:\/\/travellingthroughwords.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/01\/happy-new-year.png?w=350&h=200&crop=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":237,"url":"https:\/\/travellingthroughwords.com\/index.php\/2016\/02\/21\/my-2015-reading-review\/","url_meta":{"origin":11571,"position":5},"title":"My 2015 Reading Review","date":"February 21, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"2015 was a pretty good reading year for me. I read 145 books (I know! Amazing, right?) which were mostly contemporaries. Other than that, I read quite a lot of series- 4 of them Fantasy, few Children and Non-Fiction books and 8 Classics. 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