A Slight Shift in…Well Everything Really.

So, I started to tweet what was on my mind but then I realized the topic would stretch way beyond the 140 characters Twitter likes to give us.  Maybe I’m just a fool to think that a topic like this could even begin to fit in a measly 140 characters.

Oh, I should probably tell you the topic…

Reading.  I know, I know, silly of me to think that it was even possible to squeeze something that awesome into 140 characters.  After my momentary lack of thinking , I thought this belonged in my blog instead.  I was going to tweet about how I felt like I had nothing to read when I realized that this was so wrong in so many ways.  The truth is I have a pile of unfinished books that I could start but I just don’t find them interesting anymore.  Half of the pile is filled with required reading, which always makes me feel like reading is work as opposed to a hobby, and the other half is a bunch of old books I never got around to reading.

There’s a reason I don’t read those old new books.  I have no interest in them anymore.  I think it may be the genre, it just doesn’t have that spark it used to.  The genre I’m referring to is the Young Adult genre, and don’t get me wrong, tons and tons of good books are written in that genre, I could list off ten quite easily from the top of my head, but I’ve just grown so tired of reading them.  It’s just not appealing to me anymore.

*Sniff* I think I’m growing up.

Not that I’m saying people who read young adult books are immature!  (Oh boy, I may have just avoided a catastrophe) but my taste in books have veered off in such a way that I never would have predicted when I was younger.  I had always assumed that Fantasy would have been my genre, something I would stick with forever, that magic died away around the 8th grade, and then I discovered this real likeness towards things of the real realm.  Reality just seemed so much cooler to me so realistic fiction, ones with people instead of elves, really attracted me in a way reading had never done before.  These are real people, going through real things and they were just so intriguing.

Gack, but now it’s just so dull.  A lot of the ones I pick up are just so typical and even though I love cliches and gushy cute stories I feel like some things are lacking.  Some how I’ve started to see myself grow fonder and fonder of the Nonfiction realm (say it aint so!  My 9 year old self is screaming to me, it thinks I’m a disgrace!) Social things, movements, and spirituality (which is debatable to whether or not it’s nonfiction…)

It’s just so odd that I would be interested in these things, just so odd that my interests have shifted so dramatically.  I’m trying to figure out why but maybe it’s best not to question it.  I will never completely abandon a genre, a book is a book after all, but I may do a little bit of shifting to my library and add new works to it.  Maybe it’s best, the expansion of one’s library is an expansion of ones mind.

Maybe I’m just trying to broaden my horizons and learn a bit more.  I think that may be it, the learning bit, I’ve just been really curious lately, school’s been a bit dull and monotonous but that doesn’t stop my craving to learn.  I want to learn, I do, but I feel like my school isn’t the place to do it.  I’ll just have to find new ways to learn and stretching out to a new genre is the first step I think.  Actually, now that I think about it the first step is to finish this Biology homework I shoved to the side to do this post instead.  Hehe…

Quick Note At The End of This Post:  NaNoWriMo is done and congratulations to everyone who finished, and I am immensly proud of everyone who participated.  Oh and leave book suggestions down below, I may just pick it up.

OH(again) one last thing, if anyone has read any of Danny Wallace’s work could you please tell me what you think of it?  That might be my next book conquest.

Oh(last one I swear) since NaNo is over this means I’ll have time to get things back on track because right now everything is ridiculously disorganized, I’m going to estimate that it’ll take another week or so until everything I need to do is done but at least I’m working on it!