Reading Profile

I have always enjoyed reading, ever since I was young.  As I got older, my reading views changed and I learned how to broaden my horizons when it came to reading.  I enjoy reading young adult literature (mostly realistic fiction), fiction, and historical fiction.

 I would have to say I like young adult literature the most because they are mostly books I can relate to and I can feel sympathy for the characters.  My favorite YA book is Sarah Dessen's Saint Anything.  In this novel, a teenage girl is thrown into the spotlight after her brother is sent to prison and has to understand what it means to be yourself. 

I like fiction because they are stories where the character has to overcome obstacles in order to make something better for them, like Saving Grace by Jane Green. In this book, a woman hires a nanny to help around the house, but her life is turned upside down when she starts to think her husband is cheating on her and when she is put on prescriptions for something she does not have.

And I like historical fiction because I like learning a bit of history whenever I read.  One book I enjoyed reading was Clare Vanderpool's Moon over Manifest.  This is a coming-of-age story where a girl is sent to her father's hometown to discover the town has a secret that may help her understand what home means.

I am also starting to enjoy reading romance novels because I like reading how people meet others and end up getting together in the end.  One novel I just finished was Susan Wiggs's Starlight on Willow Lake.  This tells the story of a woman who is hired to care for a woman in a wheelchair and starts to fall in love with the woman's son who has a secret that he has kept from his mother for years.  This book is a part of the Lakeshore Chronicles, and I have read a couple of books that are a part of this group and I enjoyed the ones I have read so far.

My dislikes are science fiction and horror because I am not too keen about reading something in the future sense or something that could freak me out.  I admit last semester, I picked up a book called Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith, and I could not make it past page 80 because reading about people turning into insects was not very interesting to me.



Marissa Meyer's Cinder

But there are times when an exception is in order.  For example, I'm not much of a mystery reader, but I enjoy reading Robert Galbraith's Career of Evil, as well as all of Robert Galbraith's books.  In Career of Evil, it tells the mystery of why a detective was sent a package with a severed leg.  This book made me keep reading in order to find out who the culprit is.  Also, I mentioned science fiction is not my favorite, but Marissa Meyer's Cinder made me interested because it is about a girl/robot who falls in love with the prince.  Now I am interested in reading the rest of the Lunar Chronicles, which this novel is a part of.

As you can tell, I enjoy reading a vast about of books, in many different genres.  How do I decide these books?  Usually by Goodreads because I can keep track of what I am reading and they would offer suggestions of similar books I might enjoy.  And just by browsing around, I can come across something that looks interesting and give it a try.  That is what I like about reading: trying new genres and getting the chance to broaden your horizons.