New Year's Resolution #3: Checking In
Mar. 3rd, 2011 04:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xerinmichellexA little update on my read-61-books-this-year resolution. As of now, I've read 20 books...so I'm about 1/3 of the way done. I've been in a reading frenzy since January, cut that'll probably slow down since I'm started a new manuscript today. (Almost at 2,000 words, which is the farthest I've gotten these past 6 months. I am not even kidding. Fingers crossed that I can actually stick this one out.)
Going over my Read-Books List, I realized that most of the books were YA--13 paranormal/sci-fi/fantasy and 5 contemp. Compare that to the one adult Sci-Fi, H.G. Wells' The Time Machine, and one classic, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. Yeah. I know it's great and all to have a nitch-genre, but I kinda feel bad for not going outside my comfort zone. That's not to say that reading YA is a bad thing, 'cause there's plenty of smart, edgy YA choices to make, and if I want to write YA, I have to know what's out there. I just feel like, being 23, I should, you know, get some adult novels. I'm old enough to drink--I think I can handle a grown-up book.
So, I've decided to broaden my reading choices. This is the perfect time, as with the way things are going, I'll have 61 books read by September. Plus, this will help me get through my miles long list of books I want to read. I forced myself yesterday to grab a Stephen King novel (The Green Mile) at the library. (My first Stephen King novel too! Don't judge me!) (Okay, I also walked out with two other YA novels. Again: Don't judge me!) I just have to stop making a beeline for the YA section at the library, and choose books off the adult fiction aisles. Next time, I promise I'll get two adult books.And maybe the last Wicked Lovely book if it's there.
Going over my Read-Books List, I realized that most of the books were YA--13 paranormal/sci-fi/fantasy and 5 contemp. Compare that to the one adult Sci-Fi, H.G. Wells' The Time Machine, and one classic, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. Yeah. I know it's great and all to have a nitch-genre, but I kinda feel bad for not going outside my comfort zone. That's not to say that reading YA is a bad thing, 'cause there's plenty of smart, edgy YA choices to make, and if I want to write YA, I have to know what's out there. I just feel like, being 23, I should, you know, get some adult novels. I'm old enough to drink--I think I can handle a grown-up book.
So, I've decided to broaden my reading choices. This is the perfect time, as with the way things are going, I'll have 61 books read by September. Plus, this will help me get through my miles long list of books I want to read. I forced myself yesterday to grab a Stephen King novel (The Green Mile) at the library. (My first Stephen King novel too! Don't judge me!) (Okay, I also walked out with two other YA novels. Again: Don't judge me!) I just have to stop making a beeline for the YA section at the library, and choose books off the adult fiction aisles. Next time, I promise I'll get two adult books.
