About the blog
Updated July 2025 – yep, readers I’m still alive 😉
Welcome!
This blog, My Addiction To Fiction (sometimes shortened to matfiction), was created in April 2019 after being a solely Instagram blog – My Addiction To Fiction. I have always been a reader and loved chatting books with any and everyone who reads (or doesn’t 😉). I didn’t really know anything about the book blogging community before embarking on this journey. The logo to the left is the previous logo of this blog.
My goal and hope for this blog is that it can be used to record and inform, you, The Readers, of the books I am reading and have read in the past (thus fueling my addiction to fiction and giving it an outlet).
I would love to hear from you regarding feedback and would love to hear your opinions on the books mentioned on this blog.
I love reviewing books so that is the primary content on this blog. There is also book tags and book hauls. Occasionally I post a Top 10, author interview or Beguiling Bookstores post. Weekly memes which are hosted by other book bloggers, such as Let’s Talk Bookish, are part of the secondary content.
Goals
- To have 100 followers – if you are following, thank you so much on joining me on this book-blogging journey, you’re awesome!
Awards
This blog has been honored to receive the ‘Real Neat Blog Award‘ and the ‘Blogger Recognition Award.’
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About the Blogger
My name is Aimee and MATFiction stands for ‘My Addiction To Fiction’ as I am addicted to reading fiction (metaphorically). I have been a fanatical bookworm since I first learnt to read.
My favorite book series’ has got to be Red Queen, The Agency for Scandal, The Stormlight Archives, and Lord of the Rings. Among many.
Myfavorite stand alone books have got to be Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, Sherwood by Megan Spooner, A Thousand Heartbeats by Keira Cass (read on a retreat-like golden summer holiday and literally absorbed this book so so so good!), and Emma by Jane Austen (honestly every Austen I love except Mansfield Park – give me a Darcy or a Knightly any day).
The genres I like best include fantasy, romantasy, YA, historical fiction, classics, poetry, any book with original and thoughtful prose, or anything with a world I can just be fully absorbed into. Pretty much any kinds of books with carefully crafted characters and engaging plots books I enjoy.
I’m a sucker for tropes such as enemies-to-lovers, slow burn (cue Kacey Musgraves “Born in a hurry, always late / Haven’t been early since ’88”), quest adventures, unreliable narrators, time travel done properly (authors: if the person traveled back into the past they had to be present in the past when it was the present alright – I get fussy about my quantum mechanics), strong female protagonists/heroines, amateur sleuths, treasure hunts, puzzles and riddles, multiple POVs, forced proximity and anything that’s deeper and more thoughtful and complex than shallow cheesy stuff.
My reading pet peeve has got to be when the first book in a series starts off great but throughout the series slips down, becomes uninteresting and diverts completely from the original story. How often does this happen! Also, I hate when my favorite character dies – why do I always choose the one that dies?! Also, nothing too cheesy, fake, unbelievable or just plain annoying (e.g. The Selection sadly covers all these adjectives).
For me, you can never go wrong with a good book, a cup of herbal tea and a fluffy dog on your lap. Thanks for taking a look at my blog which is different from the rest (at least I hope so, right!? 😉) and where my sense of humor comes through in everything I post.
Also, to let you know, this blog contains my own opinions and as we know opinions are not fact and can be flawed. So if you see something you disagree with that’s okay we both have the right not to be wrong (does that make sense?). We can agree to disagree. I try to be courteous around books I don’t like as I know the author worked hard on that piece of writing. Although since this blog is my own thoughts – a strong opinion or perspective will come through and so, yeah, just be prepared.
Favourite literary quotes:
“My good opinion once lost is lost forever” – Mr Darcy, Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen.
“It was badly done. Badly done indeed” – Mr. Knightly, Emma by Jane Austen.
“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
If you have any questions for me about books or blogging feel free to ask!
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