I started this shindig after leaving the US for Japan to be an Assistant Language Teacher in Miyakojima, Okinawa. It was amazing, and for the first time I was amazed to note how much I was actually reading. For the first time I read over 100 books in a year, and have kept that goal in mind with each successive year. Now that I'm back in the...
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I started this shindig after leaving the US for Japan to be an Assistant Language Teacher in Miyakojima, Okinawa. It was amazing, and for the first time I was amazed to note how much I was actually reading. For the first time I read over 100 books in a year, and have kept that goal in mind with each successive year. Now that I'm back in the States, I expect my reading to slow down, but so far it really hasn't. Go me.
My favorite genre is modern fantasy (fantasy set in the modern "real" world), but I dig the old fashioned high fantasy, good old scifi, apocalyptic fiction, and the occasional plain fiction as well. I prefer young adult books, for ease of read, young protagonists struggling against the odds, and I'll admit, I enjoy the angst, but sometimes need that thing that you can only get from reading books written for older people--maybe it's the complex plot, maybe it's the higher vocabulary, I don't know. During my time in Japan I've tried to branch out a LITTLE bit and read books that I normally wouldn't pick up back home and have been pleasantly surprised by some of them. I've also been dipping way into the paranormal romances, but I've decided to stop feeling guilty about this pleasure.
I'm always looking for suggestions on good reading, but for the love of all you hold holy, PLEASE don't tell me how the book ends? Or anything beyond what what you'd find on the back of the book and that it's a good read? I HATE spoilers. They're just so thoughtless and mean. « less
