I do too! Have you read any good ones lately?I have a taste for fantasy and YA fiction, and I go through phases where I adore or loathe romance in fiction. Sometimes you just want a good old fashioned story WITHOUT the drama of will-they-or-won't they, you know? You want romance, you'll find it most everywhere, and there's even a whole genre devoted to it. You're burned out on romantic sub-plots and want a nice adventure minus the romance? ...good luck with that, it might be out there, but you're going to have to really search for it.
I love certain books in YA. Fantasy is my favorite book genre. I love books with a good adventure, relatable characters, and some romance. I also read quickly and people think I'm weird because of it.I tend to like stories where the protagonists get drug through heck backwards, but get the happy ending they earned. Also, my reading speed is....pretty fast, so I devour published stuff too fast.
I have a taste for fantasy and YA fiction, and I go through phases where I adore or loathe romance in fiction.
Also...ah...I maaaaaaaay be a librarian?
Bravo! My sister works in a library. Do you still have a card catalog? Made of oak, brass drawer pulls, smells like old books when you open it?*sneaks in* Oooooh, reading thread. I tend to like stories where the protagonists get drug through heck backwards, but get the happy ending they earned. In fiction, at least, the good guys can win and live happily ever after.
I adore world building, characterization with depth, and good pacing. I also...*looks around nervously, drops voice to a whisper*...like fan fiction. Now, most of it is horrible, but some of it....oh, some of it is amazing. I love it for how it gives different takes on familiar characters, or can dig into a missed opportunity or what if in a story. Also, my reading speed is....pretty fast, so I devour published stuff too fast.
I have a taste for fantasy and YA fiction, and I go through phases where I adore or loathe romance in fiction. Sometimes you just want a good old fashioned story WITHOUT the drama of will-they-or-won't they, you know? You want romance, you'll find it most everywhere, and there's even a whole genre devoted to it. You're burned out on romantic sub-plots and want a nice adventure minus the romance? ...good luck with that, it might be out there, but you're going to have to really search for it.
Also...ah...I maaaaaaaay be a librarian?
Welcome! BOY, are you in the right place! AND a librarian. I'm kinda-sorta a librarian, but only insofar as I have about 850 books in my house, obsessively organized, with another 1600 on my "to read" list (I need a bigger house).*sneaks in* Oooooh, reading thread.
That one sounds interesting, and my library has the e-book, so I've just put it on hold.Mia6 I actually just finished a book, Girls with Sharp Sticks by Suzzane Young.
That sound good, thanks for the recommendation. The Tradition sounds good as well!Mia6 I actually just finished a book, Girls with Sharp Sticks by Suzzane Young.
That's interesting! I do all my searching of books at home and check them out there and pick them up when they are in. I rarely go in to the library looking around. How things change!If there is a card catalog available, I will go to that before using the computers. Longtime library lurker here.
Oh, I remember those. I would love to have one.Do you still have a card catalog? Made of oak, brass drawer pulls, smells like old books when you open it?
So far so good. But I've just got started, with the guests arriving, and me trying to remember who everyone is.rubysmama How do you like Unwanted Guest?
For post -apocalyptic fiction, I recommend "Alas, Babylon". It has been a favorite of mine for 40 years.Aha! Brain back online. Some books where romance isn't the main point.
Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld
-YA Steampunk WWI historical fiction
Terrier by Tamora Pierce
-YA Fantasy medieval setting, following a new member of the city guard in one of the less tame areas of the city
Circle of Magic series by Tamora Pierce
-Starts out juvenile and grows to young adult along with the characters in a series of quartets and individual books, focuses on four magic users with atypical magic and their education. Three girls and a boy, and they have sibling-like relationships and a wide variety of backgrounds, from noble to thief.
While Mercedes Lackey's Five Hundred Kingdoms series isn't no-romance, it's amazing for the take on tropes. There is a force in that world called The Tradition, which is a non-sentient power that most people are unaware of that tries to nudge things into traditional roles. For example, if your father a widowed merchant who just married a widow with two daughters of her own, it will try to nudge you into a Cinderella role. The thing is, The Tradition just wants things to follow well-worn paths...be it happy endings or tragedies. It's various protagonists are characters who are aware of The Tradition, and often attempt to use it to twist things to happy endings, and are perfectly aware of the tropes and cliches it will try to enforce.
I'll try to poke my mind for more, but those are a couple of my recs! I've got a craving for some dystopia/post-apocalyptic fiction, hold the love triangles right now but miiight be able to tolerate non-plot-tumor romance, if anyone has something to suggest.
Would you recommend it?I finished The Poisonwood Bible. It was a very heavy book. I don't think I've ever read anything like it.