In which it's World Book Day
Apr. 23rd, 2025 02:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ganimedeToday is World Book Day. It's also the anniversary of the birth or death of several notable authors, including Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, PL Travers, Bernard Cornwell, Samuel Pepys, and Miguel de Cervantes. The idea was conceived by Cervantes' publisher in 1922, initially to promote that author and boost sales of his books!
On this day for the past few years, I've done a book-themed post. It's actually good timing because I found out about a reading quiz yesterday that I wanted to share. It's called Read Your Colour, and it claims to be able to identify books you'll love by exploring how you think, feel, and approach stories. Rather than just going off genres, it focuses on pace, tone, characters, emotional resonance and the way a story is told to identify your reading personality. Bet you didn't know you had a reading personality, did you? Well, now you do. The site lists 6 different ones which it links with a colour: yellow, red, blue, orange, green, and purple.
I did the quiz and was told that I was 50% purple, 40% red, and 30% orange, with blue and green on 10% and yellow on 0%. Apparently a purple reader is someone who reads wild and unconventional books that are impossible to categorise, with stories that break rules. I didn't think that sounded anything like me at all, but then I remembered that I'm currently reading The Examiner by Janice Hallett, an author I enjoy particularly because her books are so unusual. So maybe it's not that far off. It gave a few suggestions of books that I would love, including Life of Pi by Yann Martel, The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin, The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, and Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut. I've read Life of Pi and really did not like it at all. I have heard good things about Le Guin and she's on my list of authors to try at some point. Same with Vonnegut although I'm leaning more towards reading Le Guin than Vonnegut. And I've heard of The Metamorphosis but I've never really had any interest in reading it for some reason. Maybe I should give it a try! I was only thinking a few days ago that there are lots of classic books that I've never read and I think that's possibly counted as a classic.
So tell me, what result did you get on the quiz and what do you think about it?
On this day for the past few years, I've done a book-themed post. It's actually good timing because I found out about a reading quiz yesterday that I wanted to share. It's called Read Your Colour, and it claims to be able to identify books you'll love by exploring how you think, feel, and approach stories. Rather than just going off genres, it focuses on pace, tone, characters, emotional resonance and the way a story is told to identify your reading personality. Bet you didn't know you had a reading personality, did you? Well, now you do. The site lists 6 different ones which it links with a colour: yellow, red, blue, orange, green, and purple.
I did the quiz and was told that I was 50% purple, 40% red, and 30% orange, with blue and green on 10% and yellow on 0%. Apparently a purple reader is someone who reads wild and unconventional books that are impossible to categorise, with stories that break rules. I didn't think that sounded anything like me at all, but then I remembered that I'm currently reading The Examiner by Janice Hallett, an author I enjoy particularly because her books are so unusual. So maybe it's not that far off. It gave a few suggestions of books that I would love, including Life of Pi by Yann Martel, The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin, The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, and Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut. I've read Life of Pi and really did not like it at all. I have heard good things about Le Guin and she's on my list of authors to try at some point. Same with Vonnegut although I'm leaning more towards reading Le Guin than Vonnegut. And I've heard of The Metamorphosis but I've never really had any interest in reading it for some reason. Maybe I should give it a try! I was only thinking a few days ago that there are lots of classic books that I've never read and I think that's possibly counted as a classic.
So tell me, what result did you get on the quiz and what do you think about it?
