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HOW can it be November already? How? Why is it that when you're a kid, time seems to last so long, and childhood seems like a lifetime, then once you're out of high school, time zips away in the blink of an eye? It's so weird!! (And scary.)
I used to love YA fiction when I was, you know, a young adult. As I got older, I stopped reading them. Then I got back into them again in my mid-20s, but usually only if they were part of some bigger plotline (and usually involving supernatural or dystopic worlds). However, recently, I've gotten back into reading straight YA that's just about teens going through their regular, non-supernatural lives, and have discovered a new genre, "New Adult," which I am convinced became a genre due to the proliferation of self-published fanfic. New Adult fits right in between YA and Harlequin on the romance level, wherein you have the fun of reading about first loves and teenage drama, but doesn't stop at kissing and hand holding.
I have been reading a lot of these lately. I don't know if it's the time of year, with Seattle gray weather making me feel depressed, or just the inexorable passage of time making me feel nostalgic, but suddenly I've been eating these up like candy. And due to the aforementioned self-published fanfic (with the names changed, of course), there are a ton of them out there, available very cheaply. Unfortunately, many of them very obviously started out as fanfic, with typical fanfic problems of grammar issues, stories that don't stop happening even long past their charm, typos, etc. That said, as we all know, certain kinds of fanfic also have a draw that can't be quantified, that are interesting and emotionally provoking even if not technically perfect, and I've run into those as well.
A lot of them are what I suspect to be ex-Twilight stories. I don't know how broad this knowledge is, but Twilight fic is almost all AU fic wherein the characters do not resemble the book characters at all, other than maybe in looks, with all the supernatural elements stripped out and only the names kept the same. It's a really bizarre phenomenon that I've never understood, and thankfully do not have first-hand knowledge of, but am well versed in, due to a friend totally being into it. Anyway, there are quite a few of these NA stories that make me suspect they started out as Twilight fanfic, and some I know for sure did.
Anyway, onto the list of YA/NA that I've read recently, some of which I rec, some of which I want to save you from if you'll let me.
( Just shut up and tell me about the stories. )
So, what have you guys been reading?
Off topic, breaking in my Docs has been going well. I did get a blister on my left heel, but it was my fault for not wearing a double layer of socks when still in the break-in period.
I used to love YA fiction when I was, you know, a young adult. As I got older, I stopped reading them. Then I got back into them again in my mid-20s, but usually only if they were part of some bigger plotline (and usually involving supernatural or dystopic worlds). However, recently, I've gotten back into reading straight YA that's just about teens going through their regular, non-supernatural lives, and have discovered a new genre, "New Adult," which I am convinced became a genre due to the proliferation of self-published fanfic. New Adult fits right in between YA and Harlequin on the romance level, wherein you have the fun of reading about first loves and teenage drama, but doesn't stop at kissing and hand holding.
I have been reading a lot of these lately. I don't know if it's the time of year, with Seattle gray weather making me feel depressed, or just the inexorable passage of time making me feel nostalgic, but suddenly I've been eating these up like candy. And due to the aforementioned self-published fanfic (with the names changed, of course), there are a ton of them out there, available very cheaply. Unfortunately, many of them very obviously started out as fanfic, with typical fanfic problems of grammar issues, stories that don't stop happening even long past their charm, typos, etc. That said, as we all know, certain kinds of fanfic also have a draw that can't be quantified, that are interesting and emotionally provoking even if not technically perfect, and I've run into those as well.
A lot of them are what I suspect to be ex-Twilight stories. I don't know how broad this knowledge is, but Twilight fic is almost all AU fic wherein the characters do not resemble the book characters at all, other than maybe in looks, with all the supernatural elements stripped out and only the names kept the same. It's a really bizarre phenomenon that I've never understood, and thankfully do not have first-hand knowledge of, but am well versed in, due to a friend totally being into it. Anyway, there are quite a few of these NA stories that make me suspect they started out as Twilight fanfic, and some I know for sure did.
Anyway, onto the list of YA/NA that I've read recently, some of which I rec, some of which I want to save you from if you'll let me.
( Just shut up and tell me about the stories. )
So, what have you guys been reading?
Off topic, breaking in my Docs has been going well. I did get a blister on my left heel, but it was my fault for not wearing a double layer of socks when still in the break-in period.
