Most of you who read this blog are MG/YA enthusiasts--we are all in good company. So what was the book that did it for you? I bet most of you just never grew out of reading YA books as you got older. I didn't. I had plenty of years where I read mostly "adult" books, but when I started teaching I got bounced around from school to school for a few years. The first person I always got to know really well was the librarian. One school I went to got a big order of new books right before Christmas break and I checked out a bunch to take with me on break. I also had a few adult books, but I didn't even touch those. I just whipped through all of the ones I had brought from the school library. Finally I just decided what the heck, and I went to mostly YA/MG. I haven't looked back.
What about you? What book or books finally made you realize where you reading interests lie?
Twilight.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a teen I read romance.
Then for years I couldn't find anything to read. Nothing really caught me.
Then the Twilight movie came out.
That changed everything for me.
After reading the entire series in four days I realized I belonged near YA :)
I am thinking that the two big answers will be: Twilight and Harry Potter. We'll see!
ReplyDeleteI always reread my beloved faves (narnia, Anne, OZ, wrinkle in time series, little princess ect) as an adult but didn't read any new YA books until-- yep you guessed it-- Harry Potter. Now I read tons of YA.
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