Anyway, as I got older, I slowly branched out into the paranormal realm (vampires and ghosts mainly with the occasional witch thrown in). And then my last couple of years of high school, I was introduced to Fantasy with Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series.
Then life hit and threw me some major curve balls which caused me to stop reading for quite a while - about 10 years or more, to be honest. It also caused me to stop writing for the same amount of time. Some things in life are hard to get past and they tend to take away your enjoyment in things that you once were completely immersed in.
So, with that void of books and writing in my life, I completely lost touch with the literary world and a lot of things had changed (for the better, I believe). When I was a teen, there wasn't really such a thing as Young Adult books. Everything was lumped into Children (or if you had a progressive bookstore in your town, they called the section Teens). But the books at that time were pretty generic and not very mature. And I was on a very mature reading level back then. So, most books (with a few rare exceptions) were boring to me and I ended up reading more adult books (Robert Jordan, Dean Koontz, and a freakin' ton of romance novels).
So, imagine my pleasant surprise when the Twilight series and the Harry Potter series came out and I actually picked them up to read. I couldn't believe how amazingly different these books were from the books I'd read as a kid and as a teen! These two series alone broke the non-reading spell I was under and over the past few years, I have begun to devour books again like I used to.
The difference this time is that I feel I've truly branched out in my reading interests. Whereas I typically stuck with mysteries, vampires, ghosts, some fantasy, and a ton of romance (especially Regency Romance), I now find myself reading so many new and intriguing subgenres in both the Young Adult and the Adult realms. Dystopians, Psychological Thrillers, Zombies, Werewolves, Contemporaries, Historical Fictions.....and the list goes on and on.
And now there are Indie Authors, Self-Published Authors, and Traditional Authors all turning up the notch and raising the bar for all these different genres. And with the creation of the ebook, books are so much easier to come by (and relatively cheaper too). But, I will admit that even though I have almost 400 books on my Kindle and Nook apps combined, I still much prefer to have either paperback or hardback. :)
Which brings me to why I titled this post the way I did: According to my calculations, I currently have almost 300 books on my TBR pile that I actually own but have yet to get around to reading. I'm working on that pile and trying very hard not to add more to it, but it seems that I have a slight book buying addiction. Even if I manage to not actually spend money on books, I still find myself occasionally going onto Amazon and finding Free books to download, which then sit on the pile for way longer than they should because really I was just trying appease the urge to own more books. Sigh. It's a vicious cycle but one that I am determined to someday break.
And the reason I'm rambling on about all of this is to let you all know that at the end of each month, I'll be posting an update that shows which books I read from the TBR pile that month and what, if any, books got added to the TBR pile. Maybe someday I'll have the pile completely reduced to 0 but I highly doubt it. My goal right now is to try and concentrate on some of the books that were added to the pile more than 6 months ago. We'll see how well that goes. :)
Do you have a Leaning Tower of Books?
If so, how many books make up that Tower and how do you go about reducing the number?
I'd love to hear your thoughts and comments, so please feel free to leave me something below and have a wonderful weekend!
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