Follow Me Friday
It's Follow Me Friday over at Parajunkee! The question this week is:
Q. How has your reading habits changed since you were a teen? or If you are still a teen what new genres are you in love with currently?
Funnily enough, I read much more YA books now than I did when I was a teenager. For instance, Princess Diaries came out in 2000, so I would have been 15 at the time and I had no idea they existed until the movie came out and I then felt too old for that (bwuahaha!). I would read YA books on occasion, but I was more into adult books, especially historical. I loved anything by Philippa Gregory and anything that had to do with the Tudors or Mary Queen of Scots or basically any royal family. I read a lot of non fiction books about history as well and was very into the classics.
These days I read way more YA than I did when I was a teen. In fact, I'd say the majority of what I read these days is YA. I also love paranormals, which isn't something I really liked much as a teen. Romance is another genre I've picked up reading as I became older.
(edit: I do not know what is up with this all being in caps!!!! For some reason it's showing up in caps, but that's not how I wrote it... O_O)
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Same here about the YA--when I was 16, I was too mature to read about a 15-year-old protagonist. Now that I'm 25, I see no probelms with it. :-)
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I love the paranormal romances too. YA is such a great genre, I feel like slapping myself for not taking up reading sooner.
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Great answer, I used to read more adult books when I was a tenn and now I read a lot of YA too, hahahaha.
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I definitely read more YA now than in Ye Olde Days, but...there's a lot more of it available now! If I'd had the same choice of genres back then, I'd have probably read YA when I was, well, YA. :)
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I didn't read as much YA as I do now. I went through a really strange VAMPIRE obsessed thing where i would only read books with a semi hot vampire in. Hm, i was a strange teen ;p
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Same thing happened to me! I discovered YA in my 20's. I wish I had discovered that genre much sooner :)
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ReplyDeleteHopping through. I liked a lot of historical books as a teen too. I didn't read as much YA.
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I'm nearly in my 30s and I read more YA books now than I did when I was in my teens...I used to read a lot of YA books but probably not as much as I do now. I probably read more Adult Fiction back then than I do now LOL
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