I just had an amazing weekend with a very good friend of mine and we were talking about countless poems and books. Most of the books were classic books and we talked about some that I've read, many that I haven't. For example, we talked about The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand (which I've read) and talked about how much we hated Peter Keating and Howard Roarke.
And then we started talking about Hamlet (which I've never read) and his face was an expression of shock. You haven't read Hamlet? I told him that I never did. I never read any of Shakespeare's stuff except for some of his sonnets. What I know about Shakespeare's stuff (and I know a lot) was from Academic Bowl.
That kind of made me sad. I've been reading books about vampires, lovestruck teenagers, and children that kill each other for the past four years. I don't really regret my choice in reading material, but still...I never thought to pick up the actual Pride and Predjudice instead of the one with zombies in it. It's time for a change.
This may seem random and rather out of the blue, but the change has been gradual. I haven't been reading very much since I'm kind of getting tired of reading about teens so now I'm reading the top 500 poems on poetry.com along with Jane Eyre.
Jane Eyre is still sort of a YA novel...Just more sophiticated, thoughtful, and...old. It's still good and I find myself laughing at it since Charlotte Bronte actually had a good sense of humor.
However, just because I won't be reading a lot of YA doesn't mean I won't still be writing YA and MG. I love writing YA and MG and I don't plan on stopping anytime soon.
But for reading...I think it's time for a change in the scenery. Have your reading tastes ever changed all of a sudden or even gradually? If so, did it effect your writing?
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