Week 3: Bookchat Board

Hi everyone! My name is Aidan and my pronouns are he/they. I'm a little late to the party so I thought I would introduce myself. I have participated in the teen summer reading challenge for the last 5 years but I am freshly 18 and sitting at the adult table now. I read quite a variety of genres and themes, on my shelves you'll find everything from fantasy to thrillers, to gays in space making you contemplate what it means to be you as an individual in all of space and time, fairy tale retellings, vampires, zombies, and serial killers, adult fiction, YA and middle school fiction,  written novels, manga, graphic novels and some books in between but you will find a common thread is that most of them are queer. My favourite sub genre is Queer Witches as I am a Queer Witch myself. One of my favourite witch books at the moment is the How to Hang a Witch by Adriana Mathers who is a descendent of survivors from the salem witch trials, the titanic, the civil war, and more historical events. Her books follow the events of her ancestors in the 21st century, and gives representation to accurate witchcraft and modern witches. 

Realizing I did not introduce myself yet. My name is Janean and I am a Gen X parent of two teens, two dogs, one cat & three guinea pigs. I have been a reader all my life and I enjoy most genres, my favourites being fantasy, thriller, scifi/dystopian and literary fiction. Aside from reading I enjoy camping, hiking and wildlife photography. My tbr is huge, but I look forward to adding to it through recommendations from all of you :) 

Hi, my name is Sonja.  I'm in my late 20s and am a graduate student at Queen's.  I really love reading and I saw this challenge while studying at the public library.  I am excited to join :)

My favourite type of book is literary fiction, but I have been branching out recently and have enjoyed some YA (because of BookTok lol) and sci-fi.  I am also in the mood to read some fantasy, so I think that is what I will try next.  My favourite book of all time is Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevski. I read it slowly over a period of two months in a book club where people talked about all of the themes etc. and it was amazing.

What is your favourite beach read for the summer? 

Any other folk of an age not to be named who enjoy reading YA books?  I'm in the 40-50 age bracket and I still thoroughly enjoy the genre.  Besides the fantasy and sci-fi sections, it's my next stop in the library when looking for a new read.

On Thursday I picked up 10 books from the Sydenham library. Today is Monday and I've just started on my 5th. I'm not usually a book a day person but I'm not complaining. I'm on holiday! 

They are not all fiction, or all for just me. 

One is The End of Alzheimer's Program - because that disease runs on both sides of my children's family. It was much more helpful than I expected with some things I've already started to implement for myself. 

Three are poetry books for children, one of which I enjoyed with my granddaughter on the weekend. 

I just re-read Edible Woman. Wow! That Margaret Atwood knows how to tell a story! 

And I just started Chasing Painted Horses by Drew Hayden Taylor. 

Thanks for your reviews and recommendations!

I hadn't heard much about Edible Woman before, but the title itself is intriguing. Now that I know someone liked it, I might give it a try sometime. Thanks

Do you have a challenge list for 2022?

Just for read more, I challenge myself for read more. How many book can I read for 2022? I am at the 30th book.  I read most in french but i have try in english to. I try horror(not for me), romance(yes i love it), and i will try police in the futur.

I discover the summer club this years, How to enjoy reading with some contest!

Guys I need to know if it’s worth giving the new hunger games book a try! I didn’t like it as much before but now I want to re read it, if you have please let me know if I should and why you liked it? 

Thanks in advance!! :)