non-fiction reasons why

omg this article: Why Doesn’t Ancient Fiction Talk About Feelings?

honestly, i should OMGWTFBBQ this article spoke that much to me. you know that in the last couple years i've had more than a couple people tell me that i'm a robot. yes, they're joking. yes, i compute that. but still. it's true. i'm less emotional than before. not that that really bothers me (obviously). but *why* have i become less emotional?

i thought it was from some of the relationship stuff i went thru. protecting myself. and sure, that may still well be the case. but i totally think that me now exclusively reading non-fiction has totally contributed to me being more emotionally flat.

up thru high school, i read exclusively fiction. in college sometime i started discovered memoirs, notably katherine graham's personal history and queen noor al-hussein's leap of faith: memoirs of an unexpected life. after that i got into travel memoirs (bill bryson played a huge roll in that) and found the best american series by houghton mifflin harcourt, which turned me onto science reading.

about 5 years ago i switched to reading exclusively non-fiction. the last work of fiction i read was in september 2014 when i re-read the giver, because i had watched the movie and wanted to compare the two. before that it was august 2012 when i finished dave eggars' a heartbreaking work of a staggering genius, and started reading david foster wallace's infinite jest, which i never finished.

i don't feel like ive gone thru a transformation. and maybe it's not as dramatic as i make it sound. i dunno. i'll have to remember to ask rip one of these days. but anyway. recently i was thinking i should go back to reading fiction. not exclusively, but adding it in. the language in fiction writing strikes a chord in me non-fiction does not. reader, you'll have to let me know if you notice a difference. :)