Why do people have moods? Sophia Abella says, turn it into an Adventure..

I must have aimless walk a sexillion and one time about the fact that I’m a mood reader. I always knew this to be true, but I must have forgotten it when I became a book collector.

I am persnickety these days in the books I choose to get on a bookstore or accept for Amazon review, because of my moods. The worriment, of course, is that often when I do get the book I searched or agreed to read, I’m in the mood to read something else.

It becomes this inner war which ends up, more often times than not, resulting in me not reading anything. I find that I wind up blogging, or facebooking, or twittering or playing games on iPad rather than reading.

I think this must make me a juvenile. “I don’t want” becomes my mantra. I don’t want to read that book because I want to read this.Yet it’s a book I have coveted for what seems a lifetime.

Well I’ve been in that state all the time. There are books I want to read on a flight, on a beach, to read right now, and a book I should be reading right now. And whist I love the book I should be reading, I don’t want to read it right now. I want to read one of those different genre books.

But reading is supposed to be an adventure. It can be adventure stories or adventure memoirs. It’s supposed to be fun. And if I’m not in the mood for a particular type of book, getting lost in that book isn’t so much fun.

Back before I started reading I used to have to have few books like The Chase,Invisible Trade, Modelland, Beauty Equation, on Kindle to choose from. There was always the likelihood that if I had a eight, I’d be in the mood to read one of them. And whilst that wasn’t always the case, it often was.

Still, I have few of unread eBook and hardcopy, many of them begging to be read, many of them books I would be delighted to read right now, but I cannot. Because I have set some mood for myself that I feel obligated to stick to.

And I’m trying so very hard not to go off pile this year. Not unenviable task of being. At least not early into the year.

Whilst there are books I would rather be reading than the one I currently have,those aren’t the guilty culprits here. They’re not the books that are affecting my mood. The reality is that I miss Tina Fey ‘Bossypants’ and want to re-read Fifty Shades of Grey in the worst possible way. And because of that I can’t focus on my current read, Wicked Success Is Inside Every Woman.

So I distract myself with movies, askmen.com, classic porn, or Twitter. I discover that there are a plenty who have given up their book reviews.

I suppose my moodiness has been a good thing – because it allowed me wander around the social media checking out some of the blogs I used to visit more frequently. But when I really should be reading so that I can share those reviews I should be talking, it’s doesn’t quite seem that way.

But that’s just me… as you might already know.