I am Jamie, aka Rue. Rue is a nickname I have had since I was in about 8th grade. I am a 26 year old college graduate who is crazy and going back to get my second bachelor's degree in History. My first degree was in Women's Studies.
This is my third blog. I started my first blog almost three years ago, which is a Beauty blog, but mainly deals with my gigantic nail polish collection, which has gotten too big. My second one is more of a personal blog where I rant or just write about stuff going on in my life. This blog wouldn't really fit in either of those two blogs, so here we are. Rue's starting a new blog.
I love reading, BUT I have not always loved to read. I did not start loving to read until I was almost 20 years old in college. I did read for fun a little before, but it was only like one book a year. I had elementary and high school to do that. In elementary school we had to read so many books on our own and then take tests on them. In high school, our English department would not pick books out that I was interested in at the time. There is one exception which was Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird. I loved that book, and it is probably my favorite book. My love for reading started to develop with the Twilight series. I wanted to read the book before I went to watch the movie, so I read it over Thanksgiving break of my sophomore year of college. After starting that I also started reading the Sookie Stackhouse series by Charlaine Harris, which True Blood is based on. I finished Twilight series over Christmas break, and my love of books continued.
In 2012, my world was turned upside down, when I lost my mamaw, who was not only my grandmother, but she was also the woman who raised me. She was my second mom, and it was a difficult time for me and my family. I turned to books to get away. They are my get away, and I think that is why I tend to like dystopian novel A LOT!
Since 2012, I have read over 125 books, and I am reading more and more. That's a lot of books, so I must own a lot. I do own a lot, but not really. I go to my public library, and borrow a lot of the books that I read. I also tend to trade a lot of my books from a local used book store, especially ones that I thought were only ok, and I know I will never read again. So I trade them in to get credit to buy new, well new to me, books so I can read them. Why keep them if they are just going to gather dust on my shelves. But one day I would like to have a library that has floor to ceiling bookshelves with them completely full. My dream library is like Beast's Library in the Beauty and the Beast. I have been buying more books here lately, and I have gotten a pretty big TBR (To Be Read) list going.
I tend to read a lot of Young Adult fiction for fun, which are either dystopian, as I said above, or Vampire and other supernatural. I am a huge fan of Nicholas Sparks, and I have read almost all of his novels. With that being said, I generally do not like Historical Fiction, which is weird for I am a history major in college right now. I also do like High Fantasy novels. I know it's a well liked book series, but I did not like "The Lord of The Rings" I couldn't get into the book or even the movie. I am still out on the Harry Potter Series though. I read the first book in seventh grade, and it took me forever to read, so I did not finish the series. I have though seen all the movies, and I love them. This is one of my goals this year is to finish the series. If I don't finish it, I would like to make a serious dent into it.
Since May 2015, I have been into murder\mystery novels typically dealing with the police or FBI.
I tend to listen to several books on audio books while I am at work, and I can finish a book in a day or two when listening to one.
Besides reading what else do I love, I love to write. It's something that I have turned to during times of struggle. I love writing poetry, and I have written several short stories.
Peaceful and Happy Thoughts,
--Rue.
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