Genre omnivore (coined by CirKater (me)) = someone whi reads all genres and in between and the only criteria for a book to be enjoyed is that its good

Does any of yall fit this description? If yes, do you have a favourite genre? Is there any that you have higher expectations for or just don't vibe with that much? And share your (hopefully genre-diverse) reading lists while we're at it!

For me my favourite genre has to be high fantasy, the longer and more convoluted the better! I'm in the middle of like five 3+ book series and I am having the time of my life!

Funnily enough, my least favourite genre might be romantasy, as it tends to focus less on the fantasy parts and more on the romance. So the romance has to be really dang good for me to be able to enjoy it, which lets be honest is kinda hard to do in a way that pleases me.

My current reading list is: 💥The Eye of the World - Robert Jordan. THE epic fantasy series. For now its taking quite a slow pace (160 pages in and the main plot has not started yet🥲) but I am having fun with it and the worldbuilding is wonderful! 💥Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevski. Despite enjoying it a lot, I'm moving very slowly with it, but thats fine. I started in June and am curretly around 50%. Its not that its bad, but it requires me way more "brain power" than other books. 💥 The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. LeGuin. I'm only at the very beginning, but it seems promising! I love genderweird scifi, so it will hopefully scratch that itch. 💥 False History - Otto English. A nonfiction about common misinformation about historical facts and how those correlate with modern problems. Its not bad, but some of the chapters are not as interesting as others, and the author loves to show his opinions as facts. I agree with those opinions, but still, it is kinda annoying. 💥 Two books that are only out in Hungarian. An absolute garbage fantasy I am forcing my way trough to see how bad it can get, and an essay collection about writing as a craft.

If you can remember whats your first ever book you read or just something you remember impacted you into reading or just you in general?

Let me go first. I think the first book I picked up was The Vampire Academy. I mean, obviously we read books in school, but this was the first book I actually chose to read on my own, and I legit think it changed my life. More in the way of like, “wow… books are actually GOOD and damn I want to consume more" I'd legit go to the library like weekly lmao ”

But also in a way is that I used to have a really bad learning disability as a child I ( still have it but is like low maintenance now ) and would act out a lot growing up, and I genuinely think picking up books and reading helped shape me into who I am today. I like to say it was almost like a switch went off in my brain. Like suddenly I wanted to try in school and the disability that held me back felt like it didnt impact me as much.

So yeah, Vampire Academy legit paved the way for my love of reading 🥹 Sorry, I rambled a lot lmao.

I just wanna know people orgin stories on discovering books lmao.

"inappropriate use of rice"

we're starting off very interesting.