What kind of reader am I...that's a tough one. Especially because I go through such genre phases. One month I want to read nothing but "crappy fiction" as my father calls anything written for a teenage girl in the last ten years. The next month I'll only read Jane Austin. Then I'm reading Carl Sagan. There's no rhyme or reason to my book-picking method. But I guess the most important fact about what kind of reader I am is that I, in fact, read. I'm always reading something new, or rereading Harry Potter. I think my love of books was inherited from my father, and grew as I was growing and watching my siblings read novel after novel.
I took Etymology because I like the idea of picking my own books. But I need somebody there, telling me I need to finish it. I have countless books I've started and haven't had the motivation to finish. Especially since my family got Netflix. So I guess my goal for this semester is to start reading as much as I did when I didn't have access to cable, the internet, and Netflix. It'll take some work, but I'm sure I'll get there.