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This week's question is: Have you ever convinced someone to read a book, a series, or a whole genre? What book(s) and who was it? Did they like it?
MY ANSWER: YES! I have! My friend decided to read Twilight--no comment--and I decided around Christmas of that year, she needed to read something else! More paranormal reads outside of Twilight. So I can say that I have convinced her to read a whole genre and that's Urban Fantasy! And some are Paranormal YA! Really, I sometimes prefer calling it Paranormal Fiction, because sometimes it's not quite a UF world and it's in no way a Paranormal Romance one either, it falls somewhere between the two...so hence my Paranormal Fiction!
And naturally, yes, she loved nearly everything I bought her the past few years. Ranging from Kelley Armstrong's Otherworld series, the talented Jeaniene Frost, and naturally I had to buy her Shannon Delany's 13 to Life series when I realized she hadn't read it yet!
And naturally, yes, she loved nearly everything I bought her the past few years. Ranging from Kelley Armstrong's Otherworld series, the talented Jeaniene Frost, and naturally I had to buy her Shannon Delany's 13 to Life series when I realized she hadn't read it yet!
Thanks for visiting me again :-)
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Kirsty @ All in One Place xx
Back when Twilight was a hit, I wasn't as avid a reader as I am now, so I was actually one of the last people to read it at that time. It's really good that you convinced someone to read a while genre. That just amazing!
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Our book club encourages reading just about EVERYTHING! We vote on monthly group reads to discuss. Sometimes we hate 'em; sometimes we love 'em. The most important thing is to have fun, right?
ReplyDeleteI've been seeing a lot of Twilight. I have never read it though. Maybe I will soon. Happy Friday!
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Geeky Chiquitas
Twilight has been pretty popular, though I can see why. I'm pretty sure, unless you're counting Harry Potter, that was the first YA series that I remember reading before really getting into YA. It's a great gateway "drug" lol
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I haven't read any of Jeaniene Frost's books yet. I really should give them a try.
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LOL, naturallly, eh? I'm glad you have someone to share your love of books with! Thanks for stopping by earlier, Jessica :)
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I don't think I"ve read anything you just mentioned. I may have to fix that.
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I too have read Twilight (unfortunately more than once). I haven't read anything by Kim Harrison yet but I have almost the entire Hollows series sitting on my bookcase waiting for me.
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Thanks for dropping by our blog earlier. Twilight opened my eyes to different genres. A friend "forced" me to read it and taped paper over the synopsis so that I wouldn't know what it was about. This was before it became so huge. She knew I wouldn't read it if I knew the premise because before then I wouldn't read anything that couldn't actually happen in real life. It opened my eyes to so many different genres and now I will read just about anything.
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I'm a Twilight sharer also.
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Diane @ Diane's Book Blog
I can remember getting some of my friends to read more paranormal YA. Thank you for stopping by. :)
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You're such a nice friend! Why not read when you have friends who supply you with books? :-)
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It's great you have friends you can talk books with.
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I will have to look into these author's because I am not sure I have read any of their work. I def haven't read Delany's work. I really like the Paranormal Fiction!! I may just have to start using that too! Thanks for stopping by my blog!
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I haven't read a lot of Urban Fantasy, or any actually, upon consideration. It can be quite daunting to approach a new genre, so it's amazing you're introducing your friend to it book by book! Thanks for sharing :) I hope you had a great weekend so far!
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Juli @ Universe in Words
It's so awesome that you were able to recommend a whole genre!
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And thanks for stopping by.
That's great that you convinced her to get off the Twilight wagon. I hate that it gets made so much fun of. I read the books and saw the movies and enjoyed them. I've recommended books to friends and they've liked them, thank God.
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