This week’s musing is…
~Do you read outside your preferred genre? Has your preferred genre changed?~
When I got into reading, way back in highschool, the genre I was introduced to was Fantasy. And I mean, hardcore high fantasy stuff like Steven Ericson's Malazan Empire, George R.R. Martin's Game of Thrones, and Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series. Hmm..must finish one of these sometime. lol Anyways, I was hooked with the genre, but I wanted to find simpler stories. So I searched and searched, and my hunt produced two things. One, I found Talking to Dragons (The Enchanted Chronicles 4) by Patricia C. Wrede in my local bookstore. It was short, funny, and it had only two lead characters (woot!). Two, I stumbled into Tamora Pierce's books while searching on the internet (note: the internet was barely starting to become an 'every household' kind of thing back then and I didn't know how to work with it well). Now, her books became my addiction. I wanted more stories with kickass girl leads and action and adventure. But there was no YA back then so I didn't know where to find more. Later on, Mom got for me the first Harry Potter book. I remember thinking I wouldn't like it because, "Mom, that is a kids book. I am so not a kid anymore." Oh, how wrong I was! After that it was pretty easy to find exactly the kind of books I wanted, and many years later my favorite genre is YA.
Sorry for the long answer!
*hands a cookie to those who actually read it all*
