YA Roundup
This week's new release YA shelf at my local library-- I have already read several of these and many are on my TBR I can easily say that YA is my favorite genre. I loved it as a teenager and devoured anything from Meg Cabot, Ann Brashares, and Sarah Dessen, as well as any "beach read" romance paperback I could find and trade with my sister. At some point someone said it was "juvenile" that I continued reading it outside of my teen years. I was annoyed and a bit affronted, but mostly ignored her. However, for a while after I read strictly contemporary fiction mainly because I loved reading what everyone else was reading and discussing all the buzzy books-- and if I'm honest with myself, I think her comment nagged subconsciously at me every time I reached for books at the bookstore or the library. A few summers ago I picked up a book that I fell deeply in love with and I felt instantly pulled back into my favorite genre. Every week following I zipped rig
