Ask people who don’t like to read a lot of YA and they’ll all tell you roughly the same things. It’s boring. It’s too easy. It’s too fluffy. I’ve heard these time and time again, and I’m here to set the record straight.
There are quite a few common misconceptions about YA fiction, but these are the most common ones I felt really needed to be addressed.
This post is part of Top 10 Tuesday, run by Jana from That Artsy Reader Girl.
I may be a massive bookworm, but there are some books that even I couldn’t get through. There’s no book too long, but there can be a book too tedious.
Marking a book as DNF, or did not finish, is almost like admitting defeat. There can be so many reasons why you would abandon a book halfway through – maybe you couldn’t get into the story, or perhaps it was just too long for your concentration to hold at the time.
Whatever reason, these are some of the books I’ve closed the cover on long before the final page. If I can’t get into it after three reading attempts, our relationship comes to an end.
Image via Jared Hiebert
My name is Aoife, and I am a bookaholic. I genuinely have a problem, resulting in a book buying ban and a need for a brand new bookshelf. You can find me at my local bookaholics anonymous meeting. Or in a bookshop.
This tag, which will hopefully cure me even just a little, was taken from Donna over at Chocolate n Waffles.
This book was not part of my reading challenge.
For readers everywhere who are embracing the Danish art of hygge – the first warm, wise and romantic hygge novel!
The perfect feel-good novel to curl up with – light some candles, wrap yourself in a blanket and relax …
This is part of Top 10 Tuesday, which is run by Jana from That Artsy Reader Girl.
Today’s Top 10 Tuesday calls for some books you’re not interested in reading. So, I’m going to team my answers up with another bookish meme – the Down The TBR Hole.
This is a challenge started by Lia from Lost in a Story. The aim is to cull ten books from your Goodreads TBR and free yourself up for the books you actually do want to read.
So, the rules are:
