Reading Update

[missyquill]

So initially I planned to post in depth menaing of life look at my intelectualism reviews of books, until I realised it would take me all night to do that. So instead, here's a list of stuff I've read recently (these last two months or so) and short bursts of reaction.

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[missyquill]

My school (primary/middle/high) were crammed full of books regardless of what crap I was reading. Yes, I read Sweet Valley, I read R L Stine. I read Christopher Pike which I will admit to this day is kind of cool. I read Danielle Steel (which is not) and a hundred plus Enid Blyton books. I was the generation that grew up with Harry Potter too, and the one who saw Twilight in college and just went "nopenopenopenopenope"

Fantasy was a genre I came rather late into, sadly. I gave Tolkien a try as a teen (I was 13/14) and I didn't enjoy it at all. Read some Shanara books too and then gave up on the genre without realizing it, gravitating towards chick lit (Sophie Kinsella, Meg Cabot, yes, that happened) until I got my grubby littlw hands on His Dark Material and reread Tolkien again. I also read the first GoT book and I was sold. Never much a fan of Narnia because it sounds too preachy for my taste but otherwise, fantasy got its little claws into me and soon after, Ice and Fire did. Fast forward to last night's Emmy's making me whoop because GRRM was given a typewriter because we need dem books!

Harlequin is the one thing I actually never got into. My mom used to read them and always make an effort to hide the books from my sister and I when we were younger which lead to CURIOSITY. However, by the time I read my first (and only) Mills & Boons, I was well read enough to recognize it for the trash it was and got bored within the first few chapters. Never picked up another Harlequin again.

Also, I got interested in Anime/Manga by age 15/16 and once that happens, books have to work really hard to keep up. XD

[ms_geekette]

Oh, I read plenty of chick lit now, haha. I mainly like it because it has humor and doesn't take itself too seriously.

The Harlequin stuff came from my mom and dad, tbh. My mom used to get cheapo paperbacks from the second-hand bookstore to read, but my dad eventually became the big reader of those XD. I only read a handful because they are very similar after a while.

I had a small epic fantasy phase in my late teens (never bothered with Tolkien, except for a kids' book/record of The Hobbit that I had), but I don't really read it much anymore, b/c it's very similar after a while. I've replaced it with urban fantasy, but it is repetitive, too. ASOIAF is a bit of an anomaly for me, but if GRRM didn't have all the POVs, I don't think I would've been interested as much in it.

[missyquill]

LOl, I on the other hand steered away from chick lit, unless you count Dorothy Koomson but I have no clue why she's classified under chick lit.

Your dad reading HQs is pretty unusual though, or maybe it just seems so to me because my dad doesn't ever read anything except the news. The only changes in his reading habit in the last 25 years has been switching from newspaper to iPad.

I agree about the POVs in GRRM's work, possibly the thing that compelled me the most though he kind of went overboard in Dance. I'm so afraid by the time Winds comes out, I won't remember anything that happens in the last five books.

[ms_geekette]

Hmm, I haven't read any of Dorothy Koomson's stuff, but I'd class her as women's fiction or contemporary fiction, myself. Is her stuff light at all? I thought she dealt with more serious or dramatic topics usually. My personal definition of chick lit is Fluffy McFlufferston. XD Of course people can disagree with moi.

My dad's HQ reading came from running out of westerns to read, haha. He doesn't read them as much any more b/c I have introduced him to adventure/mystery/thriller novels. But yeah, most guys would not admit to reading romances. I doubt he's told his friends, for example, but he doesn't care when it comes to his immediate family knowing about it. I don't know if he'd tell his older sisters, tho.

Well, at this rate (from all the Meereen chapters GRRM has released), you might not have to worry about remembering anything. A third novel, I will call it "No, this is really A Dream of Spring, that other one was the FALSE SPRING" is looking more and more likely. In this instance, the multiple POVs are biting him in the butt, although I would still be annoyed if his sole POV was Tyrion. Wrap it up, man. I don't think *every* conversation is important, even if you are dying to foreshadow all over the place. The time for foreshadowing is OVAH! Also, at this point, almost everyone could die and I wouldn't be too torn up. The ADWD ~effect is real, yeah.