Aside from reading Jimmy Carters “A Call to Action” (in progress), my record of books read over the last five months includes the following authors: Rachel Caine, Cassandra Clare, Janet Evanovich, Karen Greco, Kim Harrison, Richelle Mead, Annabel Monaghan, Chloe Neill, Mimi Jean Pamfiloff, Cherie Priest, Lisa Shearin, Mike Shepherd (Kris Longknife series). All of these stories involved strong female protagonists. Why would a 64 year old male, pot-bellied, gassy old fart of a retired physics professor/instructor with a PhD and two masters, read YA novels about kickass women? Because theyre fun! When I was younger (up into my thirties), very few of the protagonists were women. Now, Ive got a batch of books to enjoy from new perspectives that are fascinating to me. During summers, between school years, I would measure recreational reading at about one yard of paperbacks per summer. Because of work and health stress, (lots of work stress) I stopped reading as much for several years. But a few years ago, Janet Evonovichs One for the Money, in eBook form on an iPad, was one of the reasons I got back into recreational reading. (However, I do not recommend reading Stephanie Plum novels while proctoring physics exams. It cost me dearly to keep silent and my face blank in front of a class full of college students taking a physics exam when I ran across Thank God for the animal kingdom. Look it up. Youll understand.) As for NC17 fantasy books by authors like Laurel K Hamilton, when I admit to reading them, I actually recommend a higher rating of NC50: until youre so old your hormones can just hum nicely for a few hours instead of howl for a few minutes and quit, you probably arent old enough to enjoy LKH for more than fifteen to twenty minutes at a time. Some of my family is so conservative they would probably rate LKH books as NC150: Not suitable for anyone under fifty years dead. And if the Sleeping Beauty series by Anne Rice was the YA version your parents read to you as you went to sleep, then unless your name is Vladimir Putin, I would have very serious questions about your child hood.
Posted on: Sun, 08 Jun 2014 04:05:04 +0000