Hi! It's me. I know I've been MIA for a couple months. Teaching has been crazy busy, but I want to get back to blogging. So I'm going to start small. I won't be thoroughly reviewing every book I read, like I've done for the last year or so, just the ones I have something to say about. I won't be posting to any set schedule, but I'm going to shoot for about once a week.
I'm making my comeback by joining the Top 5 Wednesday meme started by Lainey of gingerreadslainey. Yes, I know that's supposed to be a YouTube thing, but it's way faster to type up a post than to film and edit a video. And I know that Top Ten Tuesday is a the bigger meme in the text blogging world, but I don't like their topics as much. And I know it's Thursday. But you know what? I don't care. This is my blog and for the first time in forever (cue the music) I actually feel like writing something. My blog, my space, my rules.
So anyways, this week's topic is Top Ten Genres.
Fantasy. I would spend all my time reading this if I didn't stop myself. There are just so many exciting looking fantasy adventures out there. This will always be my go to genre. Favorites include Mistborn (really anything written by Sanderson), Harry Potter, Dealing with Dragons, Dragon Slippers.
Fairy Tale Retellings. Also fairy tale esque books. Ditto to the above sentiment. Favorites include Princess of Glass, Strands of Bronze and Gold, Entwined, Ella Enchanted, The Princess Curse, The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom.
Coming of Age Contemporary. Not fluffy chick lit. That's good every once in a while, but give me a book where the main character is struggling to figure out who they are and where they belong and couple it with excellent writing and I'm gone. Favorites include Speak, Freak the Mighty, Rules, Okay for Now.
Historical Fiction. Sometimes these are hard-hitting serious books, sometimes they're just good-ole adventures. Favorites include Between Shades of Gray, Okay for Now, Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry, Leviathan (alternate history counts).
Dystopia as Social Critique not as Setting. So many of the recent "dystopian" fiction in recent years has just been adventure set in a messed up society. The story is there for the adventure, not for the exploration of the society. Boring. I want my dystopia to project potential futures based on society's current trends. I want to see where we could go and why that path would be bad. I want to explore corruption that is based in reality, not that was invented abstractly in the author's mind. Favorites include Unwind, The Giver, Across a Star Swept Sea, Uglies.
If this post seems a bit unpolished and thrown together, it is. I really should be planning a lesson right now and don't feel like hunting down an image or carefully drafting and editing. I just want to get back into the blogging game.
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