I just recently learned that there are two different types of readers. The first type makes a list of books they want to read that month/week/year and then reads them.
The other type picks which book they read based on the mood they're in.
I'm a mood reader. Sometimes I feel like a romcom. Sometimes I want romantic suspense. Sometimes I just want a contemporary romance with some angst. I have books for any mood in my reading apps.
I guess I never thought about it before, but it never occurred to me that anyone could make a list and stick to it. What if my list is all angst books for the month and I need a story that makes me laugh? What if a certain plotline is calling to me and it's not on my list? What if I just need to reread a favorite author?
Maybe this list thing isn't absolute and there is room to mood read? I'm guessing yes although that isn't the way I saw it explained online. It sounded pretty set in stone, but it could be the person who was talking about it has her list set in stone.
In fact, it makes more sense that it's a spectrum. That some people are hard over on the mood reader side (this would be me) and that there are others hard over on the list side and that everyone else falls in between the two somewhere.
That spectrum is there for writing, too. Plotters on one side. Seat of the Pants authors on the other. And everyone else somewhere in between.
