I got my copy of Top Ten Uses for an Unworn Prom Dress on Friday! I've been pretty busy these last couple of days, but what I've read so far has been fun. I think I've guessed the guy already, but that's just because I go out of my way to guess these things! (Don't we all?) Can't wait to see if I'm right!
I haven't had much time for writing, but the ideas have been boiling and building in my brain these last few days, and I think my little break is definitely over, and I'm feeling nice and re-charged. I think a lot of it has had to do with the fact that for the first time in months I'd had time to read books I'd really wanted to read. Not that the classics I generally read for my classes aren't very well-written and inspiring in their own ways, but they're not the simple fun I love most from books. My last two reads have actually been in more of a fantasy-like range than what I'm usually reading (straight, out-and-out YA, and I'm not ashamed to say it!) but I read Fablehaven by Brandon Mull, which is about two kids discovering their grandfather's preserve for magical creatures, and I'm almost to the end of Goose Girl by Shannon Hale, which is a retold Grimm's Fairy Tale, and they've been just the fanciful stuff to get refresh my 19th-century-novel-wearied mind.
Other than YA I usually read either light fantasy like the above (or Harry Potter, that sort) or children's classics, like Anne of Green Gables and Little Women, old favorites like that. Nothing like stepping back from your genre for a minute to pull you back into perspective on it. What about you guys? Second favorite genre to dip into? Does it help? Or does it just get you distracted?
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I'm glad you're enjoying Prom Dress, Lisa!
Well, I read YA and often Romantic Suspense. These are my two faves, but I read all sorts of other genres too! :)
I love YA and fantasy. My second genre would have to be historical romances, I devour those - particularly Julia Quinn and Eloisa James! :)
Honestly though, I like a little bit of everything. I couldn't choose just one genre.
Yes, I agree with you both, can't cut out entire genres, that just isn't fair. Have to spice things up a bit every now and then!
I love fantasy anything, you know that. ;) But YA fantasy has a nice flow about it. Ohh... just had an acid flashback to Labyrinth. I'm soo going to write a story along those veins. A musical/ya fantasy. :)
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