Recently Read

   Today I finished a book I have been reading for a couple weeks. It's a doctor who 50th anniversary edition with 11 doctors and 11 stories. It was actually really good. I enjoyed it a lot, in fact I'm considering going and watching the original doctors, honestly I probably won't. The 11 stories were written by 11 different authors but it was amazingly well written. I didn't want to post about this book sooner because I honestly wasn't sure I would finish it. I'm glad I did though I enjoyed it a lot. 

   I took my time going through this book because I've felt like I've been in a little bit of a reading slump lately. I enjoy reading a lot but sometimes I need to take it slow so I don't feel like it's a chore or has to be done. Because reading isn't fun when it's work. I've known that my whole life.

   The next book I plan on tackling is The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas. Now with this one I saw the movie first, and I thought the movie was really good and very insightful to what african americans go through in their lives. But It was also hard to watch at times. So I'm not sure how far I'll get with this one but i hope to finish it. If not for the simple insight then for the fact that I really dislike leaveing a story unfinished. Sometimes it just has to be done though. 

    So wish me luck readers, and don't be afraid to comment if you want. Maybe you could recommend me some books to read next. Or even some tips to make my blog more...readable? Interesting? I can't promise any kind of regularly secdualed posts though. Simply because sometimes I don't know how to put my thoughts into words. 

YA Fiction

  What is it about Young Adult fiction that keeps me, and a lot of other people, wanting to read more of it. Is it the way it's written or is there something about been a teen or a young adult that we seem to connect with. All the best stories, in my opinion, come from YA. I couldn't tell you why. In fact a lot of the stories I read in that genre don't give an exact age for the main characters. So is it the experience of reading something so unbelievable, and provides an escape, or is it that I can connect to the character. Or maybe it's both. Don't get me wrong there are some good adult books too but for some reason I keep coming back to young adult. 

    Is it easier for authors to write YA? Or maybe it's easier to come up with whole new worlds when you think about young adults. I find YA fiction enchanting and very diverse actually. You have YA historical fiction, YA fantasy, Ya sci-fi, YA romance, and probably a lot more. I think that because the YA genre is so diverse it's easier to be creative with that. YA I feel is the label that has infinite labels. I know that might sound weird but if you think about it you can take all the other genres and make them for young adults and poof it's YA.

   I know a lot of people don't really read but the audiobooks, I've heard, are very good as well. Some of them are even read by a full cast of characters which I assume would be like listening to a play. Regardless I think the appeal of YA is simple, it's magic. It's where anything can happen, you can go anywhere. And yes it has it's limitations all genre's do. But I personally think that YA has the most leeway within it. So nine times out of ten when I'm picking up a new book it's in the YA genre. 

   I'm not here to convince you to read, or listen to, YA. But if you don't read a lot YA might be the best place to start. All books though are magical in their own way. Fiction gives us an escape and/or entertainment. Non Fiction teaches us things or gives us advice. So maybe it's just that I'm a bookworm but I feel like books might be the most precious things man has ever made. It's an example of what the human mind can imagine. I would hate to see the day that imagination runs out. 

   So I hope that new stories, new worlds will never stop being created. That they never stop being wanted. I know I'll never stop wanting new stories to devour. 

Currently Not Reading

   So in my last post I talked about the series I was reading. Yes I said was. That is due to the fact that although the writing of the Maximum Ride series is still wonderful, it just got boring for me. Not that it isn't a good story but for me it felt like I was reading the same plot over and over. I'm the kind of reader that has to be kept, basically, wanting more. I like the books I read to keep me entertained and wanting to know more about the story. So reading a series where every book seems to be, save the world get caught by bad guys escape bad guys, just doesn't do it for me.

    So I have moved on to the next book of course having just started it I don't really have much to say about it. But I can say that it's young adult fiction. I read mostly YA books. That's where all the best books seem to be. I've learned in the last few years that if you feel obligated to read a book or if you're just reading it to finish it, then it's probably better to just step away from it. Maybe try it again later down the road. I can't tell you how many books I've come back to over the years and some that were once hard to get through have turned out really good. 

    One of the books that was like that a lot for me was Crime and Punishment I put it off for so long because I didn't think I'd like it or because i felt like it was gonna be boring. But i ended up having to read it for an english class and now i count it as one of my favorite books. So in the long run, just because a book doesn't seem interesting now doesn't mean it won't later. 

     Just because your Currently not Reading something, see what I did there, doesn't mean you can't be currently reading it later. Reading is suppose to be fun and an escape. If that means not finishing something then don't be afraid to set it aside. Maybe it's not what you want to/ are supposed to be reading right now. But I'm sure you can find something. And if looking at a hard copy book is something that can be hard for you to do try an EBook or an audiobook. What works for one person might not work for someone else. And if your not much of a reader that's fine too. But I think your missing out.