YA Readers What are you reading? discussion

Im so glad that i have a few more members! Anywho many intros of ourselves can be boring! we retype the usual blah blah blah BUT here i thought we should share our favorite genres or why we read certain things, what we are looking for in a book? that way we can feed off each other, give better suggestions for books and such. So here i go with my into: i love ya fantasy but lately they have become the typical vampire love crap or the fallen angel love crap, yes a good love story is nice but i like a story line that is not predictable. yes i still read vampire, angel and other fantasy books but my mind has been drawn to thrillers lately. ok i hope to hear other intros of members :)

I like fantasy, but I agree with you that the quest to be the next high concept writer can make things become stale. But I'll read almost anything. I'm not crazy about dystopian, but I like historical fiction and contemporary realism. I really love books that make you think about them after you've closed it. I think that's why I love a lot of classics. Years ago, I read Jude the Obscure and it makes you think so much. So last winter, I taught it in my Intro to Classics class and my kids loved it, too, because there is so much to think about with it. Hardy loves to use juxtaposition to consider a topic, and so he does a lot of that. I wondered if I'd still find it interesting because it had been a while since I read it, but it was still thought provoking. I know that sometimes people love a book that is just kind of predictable and fluffy, but I feel like, with all the books in the world and so little time to read, I really want a book to be beautiful and make me think.