Before I get into this post, let me state for the record that I have no problem reading YA books. Some of my all-time favourite books are YA. However, it’s pretty funny sometimes when I’m having a conversation with other readers, who don’t normally read YA.
Example:
MELISSA: “The book I’m reading right now is based on women that worked in a factory dealing with toxic chemicals. It talks a lot about the side-effects they had to deal with and their fight for basic human rights.”
JEN: “I’m reading a story about a woman who’s struggling with having to put her mother in a retirement home. Joe, you’re always reading something. What’s the current book about?”
ME: “EVIL MERMAIDS!!”
MELISSA: “Oh, like a metaphorical—”
ME: “NOPE! Evil Mermaids. They’re called Sirens, actually. They collect human hearts. It’s AWESOME!”
Love it. And I’m not sure I’ll ever stop reading YA.
Ok this made my day😁
Yay! I love making people’s day!!
Yup!
Reason I blog about books now. No need to explain why I read what i do. lol
YESSSSSSSSSSSS! When I graduated from high school, I almost felt guilty about still reading YA so I stopped. Now that I am an adult, and working in the children’s room of a library, I felt the need to catch up with what has been happening in YA and truthfully, they are my favorite books to read 9 times out of 10.
Keep on doin what you’re doing!
Yes this happens a lot with me. Wonderful post.
hahaha oh gosh I so relate- this reminds me why I love YA!!!
I feel like this with my best friend! We used to both read YA, now she’s all into this deep books and I’m like ‘yeah magic and shit’.
But magic and shit is way more fun!!
To true
Too* ahh blame the laptop, not my bad spelling