Why does some adult read young adult books\Teen fiction?
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Why does some adult read young adult books\Teen fiction?
Just for the record i am not saying its wrong for adults yo read young adult books.
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I couldn't really pinpoint a lot of it for you, but I don't really love reading about regular lives. I'm not a huge fan of crime books or mystery types unless they're exceedingly well written. I've strayed to the sci-fi and fantasy genres and I do enjoy them enough to read them regularly as well, but for some reason I just can't bring myself to read a lot of the novels about people going about their daily lives as is often found in a lot of fiction stories that I've read. For example, I'm not fond of the plots about someone's marriage or their job, etc. I hate romance novels as well and generally only pick these genres up if there's something really grabbing about the premise of the book.
I guess, for me, I've found that young adult books often are a lot more exciting than many of the regular fiction books I've come across and resultingly I end up looking to read more of them because of my experiences with both young adult and other genres. I'm sure I've probably missed some really great stories in sticking so strongly to this particular genre, but I've also found some amazing gems and therefore I'm not really fussed about going out of my way to change the genres I read.
At the end of the day, I'll read anything with a good enough premise. More often than not, I've found that young adult books simply draw me in more than most others.
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As for why I read more of it than some other genres...I'm not entirely sure.
I enjoy the premises, many of which you just don't find amoung non-YA fiction, or at least not as often. Portal fantasies, for one. It seems like most 'adult' fiction stops being about dreaming. Teens have their entire lives sitting before them, and should be all about dreaming. I refuse to accept that I should stop dreaming, just because I'm not a teen.
I've also found that it's more likely to be more inclusive and diverse than a lot of adult fiction. Most of the LGBT+ fiction I've found is YA.
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Forgive me an off-topic moment.SPasciuti wrote: ↑09 Jan 2018, 15:52 As an avid reader of young adult fiction at 25, I can honestly say I think it's got a lot to do with the development of the characters, the pacing of the story, and a generally more interesting variety of plot. Adult lives have always seemed rather boring to me, in truth, and I enjoy characters who are young and in their adventurous states. I've never been a huge fan of contemporaries or regular fiction because I've often found myself bored with the characters or even the story.
I couldn't really pinpoint a lot of it for you, but I don't really love reading about regular lives. I'm not a huge fan of crime books or mystery types unless they're exceedingly well written. I've strayed to the sci-fi and fantasy genres and I do enjoy them enough to read them regularly as well, but for some reason I just can't bring myself to read a lot of the novels about people going about their daily lives as is often found in a lot of fiction stories that I've read. For example, I'm not fond of the plots about someone's marriage or their job, etc. I hate romance novels as well and generally only pick these genres up if there's something really grabbing about the premise of the book.
I guess, for me, I've found that young adult books often are a lot more exciting than many of the regular fiction books I've come across and resultingly I end up looking to read more of them because of my experiences with both young adult and other genres. I'm sure I've probably missed some really great stories in sticking so strongly to this particular genre, but I've also found some amazing gems and therefore I'm not really fussed about going out of my way to change the genres I read.
At the end of the day, I'll read anything with a good enough premise. More often than not, I've found that young adult books simply draw me in more than most others.
Have you ever tried anything by Seanan McGuire?
I cannot recommend her enough. She even has a series that is "technically" YA. Her Wayward Children series. I say technically because some bookstores still place them in their fantasy sections.
They are wonderfully inclusive portal fantasies that are so much more than that.
I honestly fail at doing them justice, but all you'd have to do to hear their praises sung (more eloquently than I can manage) is google a few reviews, or even search for their hashtags on twitter. People routinely cry when they read them.
She also has some adult series that may interest you, if you like her writing.
But seriously, her Wayward Children books are (for me) the reading equivalent of looking at van Gogh's Starry Night.
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Grief is just love with no place to go.
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I've actually never heard of her before. I'll definitely have to look into that series. Honestly, I know the feeling of being so in love with a book and not quite being able to fully explain to everyone why they should all read it.Gravy wrote: ↑09 Jan 2018, 23:29 Forgive me an off-topic moment.
Have you ever tried anything by Seanan McGuire?
I cannot recommend her enough. She even has a series that is "technically" YA. Her Wayward Children series. I say technically because some bookstores still place them in their fantasy sections.
They are wonderfully inclusive portal fantasies that are so much more than that.
I honestly fail at doing them justice, but all you'd have to do to hear their praises sung (more eloquently than I can manage) is google a few reviews, or even search for their hashtags on twitter. People routinely cry when they read them.
She also has some adult series that may interest you, if you like her writing.
But seriously, her Wayward Children books are (for me) the reading equivalent of looking at van Gogh's Starry Night.
I also love reading reviews, actually. It's helped me so much in terms of finding new ways to articulate how I feel about certain books in the past and it's really nice to hear what others think about them.
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It's a feeling I'm very familiar with.SPasciuti wrote: ↑09 Jan 2018, 23:57I've actually never heard of her before. I'll definitely have to look into that series. Honestly, I know the feeling of being so in love with a book and not quite being able to fully explain to everyone why they should all read it.Gravy wrote: ↑09 Jan 2018, 23:29 Forgive me an off-topic moment.
Have you ever tried anything by Seanan McGuire?
I cannot recommend her enough. She even has a series that is "technically" YA. Her Wayward Children series. I say technically because some bookstores still place them in their fantasy sections.
They are wonderfully inclusive portal fantasies that are so much more than that.
I honestly fail at doing them justice, but all you'd have to do to hear their praises sung (more eloquently than I can manage) is google a few reviews, or even search for their hashtags on twitter. People routinely cry when they read them.
She also has some adult series that may interest you, if you like her writing.
But seriously, her Wayward Children books are (for me) the reading equivalent of looking at van Gogh's Starry Night.
I also love reading reviews, actually. It's helped me so much in terms of finding new ways to articulate how I feel about certain books in the past and it's really nice to hear what others think about them.
There's loving a book enough to give it a high rating, and even recommend it. Then there's "this book is a part of my soul" and not being able to explain why.
Doesn't happen often, but when it does...magic.
What is grief, if not love persevering?
Grief is just love with no place to go.
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Literary fiction for adults is always looking for complication in every little thing, so for me reading YA is a nice break as well as a journey if it's a particularly engaging or exciting book.
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I'm 22 and still at uni. There are hardly any books out there about people my age: adult books tend to focus on significantly 'adultier' adults, and YA books are about teenagers, with occasional 18-year-olds. While there are exceptions, they're extremely rare. If I have to choose to read about two groups of people I don't belong to, I'll choose the one I've got experience of (teenagers) over the one I haven't (40-year-olds).
It's also because I'm familiar with YA. I only recently aged out of the category, and authors I like are still releasing books, so I'm going to keep reading them. Plus, I know enough YA to know which authors I'll enjoy, where to look to find the themes I like, and so on -- adult books are much more of a mystery to me. I read a fair bit of adult SF/F, but the general fiction section of the library is huge and it's impossible to know where to start, so I end up picking things at random, which isn't the best way to find things I love.
I also think YA is slightly ahead of the game when it comes to diversity, particularly LGBTQ+ characters, and that's important to me, so that's why I read it. But that might also be because I know where to look and follow a lot of bloggers who share LGBTQ+ books, whereas with adult books I'm once again on my own.
(Also, it's really hard to find adult books with LGBTQ+ characters that aren't full of sex, and I'm not interested in that.)
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