My last post notwithstanding, I have decided that I have been reading too many young adult novels lately. I’m 26. I’m married. I have a real job. Yet I keep reading books meant for teenage/pre-teen/even-younger-than-that girls. Part of this is due to my Betsy-Tacy journey. Part of this is due to my Post-War and Peace lack of attention for big books. And partly is is just because some good young adult books have recently been released or discovered.
But I don’t want to read only YA books. There are a lot of good grown-up books out there that I want to read. So I’m instituting a new rule. I need to keep at least a 1:1 ratio each month (starting in November of course). For every YA book I read, I need to then read a non-YA book. This will allow me to shift my focus back on some of the other books I want to be reading.
I also want my husband to respect me again. (I told him he would like this post and he asked if he was in it. I said no and he said he likes when he is in my posts so this is me mentioning him).
But I do still have Catching Fire to read…and the Betsy-Tacys…and…
my books. my life. 
Ironically, for a long while I never read any YA lit. (Actually, I was a bit of a snob about it.) But your reviews of these novels have been so glowing and your enthusiasm for them so infectious that now I can’t wait to discover Betsy-Tracy, etc. for myself! In a way, I already feel like Betsy-Tracy is a friend or at least that she is destined to become a friend.
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I hope you do read the Betsy-Tacy books. The early ones are nice, but not amazing. But I am absolutely loving Heaven to Betsy – the first of the high school books.
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I have been diversifying my reading over the year as well. I’ll be watching for your reviews to see your progress. Good luck.
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Oh stop! I’m 40 and still reading lots of MG and YA (although I use my daughter as an excuse.) A good book is a good book regardless of how it is labeled.
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Haha. I wasn’t trying to say that I shouldn’t be reading YA. I just want to make sure it’s not all I’m reading.
And I can’t wait to have kids to use them as an excuse for reading younger books.
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I’ve been enjoying some Young Adult fiction myself. I think diversifying your reading is good, but ultimately it is whatever you feel like reading.
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You have to read Catching Fire before you institute your new rule! It was excellent!
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Haha, hope you you can manage that rule. You don´t write weirdly YA in any case 🙂 There are so many great new YA books, good luck!
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Best of luck with the 1:1 rule 🙂 But hope you continue to read YA fiction too!
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I think your 1:1 plan is a good one and I laughed over the Husband comment. I’m so glad you mentioned him. Now he can rejoice!
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