I mean I listened to a book but that kind of counts as reading right I mean I do a lot of reading in the non-fiction world

But I finally just sat down and listen to a fictional book I really enjoyed I thought I would share that with you all today.

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Now most of the reading I do, I mean I've been reading books non-stop throughout my whole academic career, my adult life,

but typically what I read is non-fiction, right? I got to read history, science, philosophy,

theology, biblical studies. There's so I could spend a whole lifetime and never read all of the books and studies I wish I could read to be

knowledgeable on so on different subjects I just couldn't. So I can get consumed in it and

a lot of times I felt like reading fiction wouldn't be that great of a use of my time because there's so many

other things I just have to learn about which is sad because you actually learn a

lot about life through fiction you can learn a lot about history, for example, through historical fiction.

When you read great works of literature, it helps you to understand the time and place in which it was written.

So I really do enjoy fiction. I mean, most of the fiction books that I read like the classics, for example.

I remember, I think I was in seventh grade, I was in junior high,

and I just went through this kick where I didn't really like hanging out with people very much as a tad antisocial.

So I would just go to the library, sit in the library, play a round of where in the world is Carmen San Diego on the old apples and then I would read just

the old books on the shelf just the the classics I think one of the first ones I picked up was

Melville's Moby Dick.

And then when I needed a break from that,

I'd hop back on the Apple computer,

you know, do Sim City, Oregon Trail,

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