What do you feel when you read? What emotions do the books you read evoke in you? Do you feel multiple things at the same time?

Stories we read can often be like an emotional rollercoaster - positive moments can make us smile, tragedy can make us tear up, and a ghost story can even give us a good scare. Things become more complex though when we cannot make up our minds about how we feel. Do we want to stop reading? Are we intrigued?

We want to learn more about what happens when something makes us feel mixed, often contrasting, emotions - and in what ways this affects our reading experiences.