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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I normally read to get away, kinda get a happy ending and not be so focused on the problems of my current day life.

But as I read different books and different genres, I'm finding new reasons why I read. For example, I'm enjoying reading autobiographies because there are so many stories that are of interest in these people's lives that probably wouldn't be enough to make it into a work of fiction but they are stories from their lives that made them, and they are so different that that makes them stand out.

I feel bad because I'm on a streak of good books and I'm questioning do I ride the hot hand or take a break before I get a bad book? [/quote]

Ride a hot hand.  (Also tell us the list :))[/quote]

Well, in the other thread I felt bad about not liking an autobiography written by a woman, so I read another, also by a woman and loved it - Zora Neal Hurston. But from there I was more addicted to autobiographies than who the author was, so I read John Thompson, Miles Davis, and a streak of people from the Harlem Renaissance. I am kind fascinated by the early 1900s right now so I have people from that time on my list. But not all the books I want are in the library and one was 46 hours (audiobook) so that's taken some time to complete.

Right not I have about 5 books I've downloaded that I want to get through. It's cool because well written or not. I'm very interested in these people so it is interesting to me to know what made them different. That said some of these are just excellent reads.

And unlike fantasy books, there's so much more to read. Like I can read Langston Hughes, Zora Neal Hurston and Alain Locke and get 3 different perspectives on the same event. Amazing.

But I'm at a point in my life where I think this is what I need to be reading. So many lessons on life in these books. [/quote]

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