tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2102491209284064200.post8688595662416900925..comments2024-03-26T21:23:44.804-07:00Comments on Bibliomama: 2015 Book Round-Up Part 1Bibliomamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11825424183978181238noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2102491209284064200.post-89654574466692561492016-01-05T16:56:19.324-08:002016-01-05T16:56:19.324-08:00I am going to make more time to read this year. I ...I am going to make more time to read this year. I simply cannot read all the books that become popular. I can't do it. I find the older I get the happier I wish to be and I won't subject myself to downers anymore.<br /><br />Of course the joy of reading lies within each reader. To each his own, right?<br /><br />That being said, if I start a book and hate it I stop and find something new. :D<br /><br />YA has always been popular in a way, but I think the fact that parents are reading "kid" stuff and paying for the movies is helping the popularity along. ;) There are some excellent books!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2102491209284064200.post-29877951267185134592016-01-04T15:10:41.534-08:002016-01-04T15:10:41.534-08:00I have been waiting to read this post until I had ...I have been waiting to read this post until I had time to respond because I knew I would have Thoughts. I'll try to keep them brief. ;-)<br /><br />1. According to Goodreads, I read 65 books last year. So, more than I did when teaching full-time. Of course I wish I had read more, but there were weeks and months when I was too anxious and/or depressed to read at all, so I'm just glad I climbed out of that pit and started reading again. I think we shouldn't guilt ourselves about reading--hey, we read some books. Whatever the number, at least it wasn't zero!<br /><br />2. So the writer of The Never List is compared to Jeffrey Deaver, Gillian Flynn, Laura Lippman, Karin Slaughter, and S.J. Watson. That...seems to set the reader's level of expectation too high. Better to be pleasantly surprised.<br /><br />3. Re: standards for YA: I think lit is lit, whether YA or not, so I agree with Marilyn Belsen's comment. There has always been great fiction, crappy fiction, and a gray area in between. I think we're just noticing YA fiction more because (IMO) the last few years have given us so many good and even great YA books that adult readers are reading more YA than in the past. Anyway, I try to use the same standards. When I was a teen, I read the crappy YA books, but I liked the great ones (whether written for adults or teens) better. They stayed with me.<br /><br />4. This made me giggle out loud: "I know teen-agers aren't always walking around musing about Nietzsche, but come on. I guess I'm probably biased by the fact that I've always thought being able to read people's minds or have my own mind read would be among the worst things imaginable." Completely agree. WHY would you want to know what people think about you?<br /><br />Okay, I think that's all (it was plenty.) Thanks for such interesting reviews!Alisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10065962367181064516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2102491209284064200.post-13910379756165269532016-01-04T12:16:00.788-08:002016-01-04T12:16:00.788-08:00I used to always try to slog through books, but no...I used to always try to slog through books, but now I think that if I don't LOVE it, I'm not going to waste my time. I give it a few chapters, but if it doesn't pick up...although I did finish the Goldfinch, which I hated, because I kept thinking it would get better!Nicolehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15212465957211363245noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2102491209284064200.post-82326165285384049292016-01-04T04:43:16.636-08:002016-01-04T04:43:16.636-08:00I agree about mind reading. I think if people coul...I agree about mind reading. I think if people could read minds the divorce rate would skyrocket.StephLovehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03888019478250380270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2102491209284064200.post-36943904975765220192016-01-03T10:28:45.773-08:002016-01-03T10:28:45.773-08:00I read far less than I was anticipating/planning t...I read far less than I was anticipating/planning too as well and it was eating at me, but 2015 is going down as a pretty crummy year for us, so I'm trying to be thankful that I managed to read anything at all.Shanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05032883451591260574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2102491209284064200.post-43469702813113456262016-01-02T19:49:30.508-08:002016-01-02T19:49:30.508-08:00I haven't read any of those and don't real...I haven't read any of those and don't really plan to based on your wise reviews, but I wanted to say I wonder the same thing about YA literature - should I give it an easy pass just because it's YA I mean. And I think, no. I've been reading an absolute shit ton of YA these past few weeks because of a requirement for a YA Library Services course I am taking so I feel a little like I'm drowning in teenage strife but I think great YA fiction is just great fiction. And crap YA fiction is just crap. Sadly there seems to be a massive amount of simply ok YA fiction...and is that because it's YA or the characters are acting like annoying teenagers or...? I don't know. But I do kind of feel like I need to read something for grown ups soon.Marilyn Belshamnoreply@blogger.com