As you may have noticed, my blog has been in a bit of a lull. This has mainly because school and extracurriculars have made me super busy, but also because I've been undergoing a lot of shifts in my reading preferences. Before I go into this, obviously these are my own, personal reasons. There are tons of reasons to enjoy YA, but I'm going to be sharing why I've been moving away from it as a genre. Lastly, a little background on me. Without revealing my exact age, I am squarely in the center of the young adult demographic. I began reading young adult in about 2015 or 2016, slightly before I was demographic age and also slightly before the genre began blossoming as a whole. Last year, I read 161 books, and the year before that, 139. Of the 161, 20 were not YA, 10 in November and December. In 2018, 10 of the 139 were not YA. So it's safe to say I've had a lot of exposure to the genre. In my reading, I have settled on 3 concrete reasons why I've "left...
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