My journey into reading

I don't read. Or at least I didn't use to. The first twenty-something years of my life most interactions with literature had been with compulsory school readings, often fantasy, always against my will. I like reading encyclopedias, maps, articles. Somehow, knowing facts instead of whole paragraphs detailing and describing why the curtains were blue felt better for me. A few years ago I learned that I have aphantasia, and tried to blame my disdain for book on that. I dream, however. And with great effort I can faintly imagine things while awake. Maybe that's a muscle that I have to train. But anyways, I wanted to read, and I'm listing the books that I've read.