Sunday, January 25, 2015

Reading Profile

Welcome to this Readers Advisory blog!  Taking a class in Readers Advisory gives me an excellent excuse to do some enjoyable reading.  I am currently a graduate student, so my recreational reading time is precious.
 I adore audiobooks, as I can "read" them during my long drive to and from work each day.  It gives me a reason to look forward to the drive, and to sometimes sit in my car in the parking lot until the scene finishes.
I have rather eclectic reading tastes.  I love the classics.  Some of my favorite classics are: Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities, Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers, Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, and Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, and Little Men.
I also love to read mysteries.  I enjoy trying to figure out who is the bad guy and how the heroine is going to catch him/her.  I am a little sad because I just finished the entire In Death series by J.D. Robb.  (A new one will be coming out soon, yay!)
I enjoy Young Adult Fiction and have recently finished the Divergent series by Veronica Roth - loved the first two, hated the third, and Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater.  I have read and enjoyed fantasy, sci-fi, historical fiction and juvenile fiction. I absolutely loved The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate. 
I work in a library and look forward to going to work each day to see what crosses the circulation desk so I can plan my next reading adventure.  So, here we go:  on your mark, get set, READ!
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3 comments:

  1. JennyJanuary 26, 2015 at 5:32 PM

    I was amazed by how different it was to read an audiobook than a book. I reread the Harry Potter books, which I had read many times, as audiobooks a couple of years ago (back when I had a commute), and I caught stuff I had never caught when reading the print books over and over again.

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  2. Andrea StinebackJanuary 27, 2015 at 7:58 PM

    The One and Only Ivan is so good! I have to admit, the only audiobooks I have listened to are David Sedaris. I will have to branch out and try a fiction audiobook.

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  3. UnknownFebruary 1, 2015 at 11:48 AM

    It's nice to meet another audiobook lover. I miss my long drives to work since I was moved to a branch closer to home. I have had to read books instead of listen to them. My favorite audio book of all time is the Goldfinch by Donna Tartt. The accents were great and I fell in love with the characters because of the narration.

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