I am what you would call a voracious reader. I picked up reading at the age of three and over the years I have become quite a speed reader. I read at least an hour a day (on my lunch break) and always listen to at least 30 minutes of an audiobook (sometimes more if I'm running errands). I used to average 200+ books a year except for the past two years. I had a baby (my first kid) in 2022 and my reading has markedly dropped (totally worth it though). In 2023 I was able to read 132 books, although I read almost 700 picture books! I'm also in 3 book clubs and review for several publishing companies. The only trophy in my house is the trophy I got in kindergarten for reading 100 books. I was the jerk kid that aced every AR test, had all the Book-It pins and always won the summer reading contest at the local library.
I am also one of those people that can't NOT finish a book. I will hate read a book and write a scathing review of it on Goodreads, rather than just putting it down and starting something else. I annoy myself, but I have yet to break the habit.
I'm a very eclectic reader, I will read and review anything you put in front of me. If it's free or for a book club, I'll read it. I once convinced my book club to read a nonfiction book on Beanie Babies because I'm a monster (the book was "The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute" by Zac Bissonnette - it's fabulous - read it).
Feel free to add me on Goodreads if you haven't already, I write reviews for every book I read. You can find me at https://www.goodreads.com/ecataldi.
- The Harry Potter series
- Kurt Vonnegut
- Ray Bradbury
- The Hannibal Lector trilogy
- The Stand by Stephen King
- Watchmen by Alan Moore
- Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
- The Riverworld series by Philip Jose Farmer
- Matthew Quick
- Laurell K. Hamilton
- The Dear America series
- The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
- The Cormoran Strike series by Robert Galbraith
- Ellis Peters
- Ian Fleming
- Shark Heart by Emily Habeck
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