Reading for Pure Pleasure

Happy May, everyone!

Recently I found myself sucked into the world of literature.  I rediscovered my passion for young adult novels with thanks to the Hunger Games blockbuster that has taken over in the last month or two.  While the Hunger Games had been recommended to me a number of times since in was first published in 2009, I was shy to take it on.  A book about teens in a fight to the death?  Didn't sound like my kind of thing.  But finally I decided to read it just before the movie came out and I'm really glad I did.

Book image from: http://www.laurenoliverbooks.com

This post isn't about those particular books (though, really, read them instead of simply relying on the movies).  It's about the excitement that the books caused.  They reminded me, not only about my love of a really, really engrossing reading experience, but also my love of writing.  That's how good they are.  And I've been reading voraciously in the weeks since.  Which leaves less time for some of the other projects on this blog, but that's sometimes how these things go.  It's been a while since I dove head first into reading as much as I have, for which I'll go ahead and blame grad school and the require reading that comes with it.

Of the books I devoured over these last weeks, I just finished a truly phenomenal one - Before I Fall, by Lauren Oliver.  It's a real stand out and I needed to share.