Friday, August 12, 2011

Feature and Follow Friday #6 AND Cry for Help!


Feature and Follow Friday is an awesome blog-hop hosted by Parajunkee's View and Alison Can Read

This weeks features are Jake @ Teen Fiction Centre and Steph @ StephLikesBooks and the question is:

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?


I’ve always love reading.  My mom says that I read entire books by myself when I was in Kindergarten, so I started at an early age.  I moved from the age-appropriate reads of my elementary school years, to required reading, to choosing my own reading material.  In my late teens and early twenties I started reading romance and some mystery/thrillers (when I had time, you know how it is when you’re in college.)  I read anything from Harlequin romance to Julie Garwood, Lavyrle Spenser, Catherine Coulter and more.  I guess I rediscovered YA when the first Harry Potter movie was about to come out, I think the first four books were already published by then and I read them back-to-back.  Since then I have concentrated mostly in YA literature.  Within the genre like contemporary, historical, fantasy, paranormal, and dystopian (I’ll give anything a try as long is not preachy or horror.)  And of course I can read a lot faster now and in Spanish and English.

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

I am taking advantage of the Feature and Follow Friday traffic to make an announcement and a cry for help:
I start classes for a graduate certificate in a few weeks and for the next year I will not have as much time to read to leisure.  I expect that I will be lucky if I can read one book a week, therefore I need HELP.  If you are interested in being a reviewer (even if you can do it periodically) or guest blogger at ‘Reading with ABC please leave me a comment here with your email and I will contact you.  Thank you so much!




5 comments:

  1. Doesn't it seem like you read more YA books now than you did when you were a teen? That's how it is for me.

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  2. New follower here! Happy Friday! I find that I am also concentrating more on YA books these days, although I'm not sure why since I generally like all kinds of books, heh!

    My #FF: http://skyink.net/?p=2635

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  3. I definitely read more YA now than I did as a teen - but then, there's a lot more of it being published now, so I think that's a big part of it.

    Thanks for the FF visit! New follower.

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  4. Hopping through. Good luck with grad school! What is the certificate for?
    My Hop

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  5. I never really read YA as a teen. I remember a few books, but mostly I read fantasy.

    Thanks for stopping by my blog. I'm following!

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