This is a good sign.Īnd look! Magnets! Poetry magnets that relate to the book! I started reading a little bit last night, and I’m already loving the heroine, Ginevra de’ Benci. (I really need to write about Historial Eras that I’m obsessed with.) OMG the book! I’ve never heard of Da Vinci’s Tiger before, but it’s set in the court of Lorenzo de Medici (Lorenzo the Magnificent), AND THAT’S ANOTHER OF MY FAVE HISTORICAL PERIODS! OMG OMG OMG LOOKEE AT ALL THE CUTE STUFF! AND A BOOK! SQUEEEELELVENTY!!! Then I remembered I had a credit from Ebay for a package the seller never sent, and I decided to use that money towards the $29.99 + TAX box. So when I read the article about Owlcrate, I was hesitant to subsrcibe to it, even with the neat swag that comes with each crate - I mean, tea? candles? tiny notebooks to write in? I was champing at the bit, yet still hesitant to make a committment. (I must write about my favorite Restoration movies/novels/television shows sometime this year.)Īnd that book turned my thoughts around about YA this past fall, and I’ve resolved to try and find some more YA books that I will love. Even the one who has the “girliest” ambition of wanting to get married, has way more depth and development to her than even most female characters in mainstream novels. Mainly because I’m obsessed with Restoration England, and it pretty much got the historical characters spot on, and I LOVED the heroines. (Seen The Hunger Games movies though.)īut I’ve decided to read more YA novels after thoroughly enjoying a YA novel called Ladies in Waiting by Laura L. I read The Hunger Games and I loved it but it didn’t inspire me to run out read Divergent let alone the rest of its own series. And here I thought it was Harry finally growing a pair and becoming less passive. HP and the Order of the Phoenix is actually my fave of the entire series, because to me, CAPSLOCK!Harry was actually realistic - until Rowling said he was acting that way because Voldemort was possessing him. HP and the Half-Blood Prince, I’m looking at you. Harry Potter was good when it was a Juvenile novel, but the minute it turned YA, it started sucking hard.

No thanks give me science fiction and (adult) romance novels!Īnd this was pretty much my attitude into adult times. When I was a teenager back in the 80s, YA novels meant endless books on high school shit problems - and why did I want to read those when I was dealing with high school problems in real life? I was reading an article on BuzzFeed about “the geekiest subscription boxes” and Owlcrate caught my eye.

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