Top ten genres I feel different about as time has passed

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the lovely ladies at The Broke and the Bookish. Every Tuesday we create a list inspired by a particular topic! This week is about books we feel different about as time has passed, but I'm making it genres I feel different about as time has passed instead. 

I thought I'd make this a more interesting post so instead of naming some books, I'm talking about genres! I've been wanting to do something like this for a while and the opportunity presented itself.

EROTICA
Let's just start with erotica. I'd never thought I was going to read it, let alone enjoy it. It's still very much out of my comfort zone, but I'm beginning to enjoy it. I had a hard time with sex scenes in books until, well now, and I think it has very much to do with my age! At 19 I feel like it isn't exactly 'wrong' to read books with sex in it, and I definitely think it's something you should wait to delve into until you're ready. I read it once in a while but I definitely prefer my mature YA and NA books for now! So, I've gone from a 'never' to a 'every once in a while'. 
Mature YA and NA was, and is, the perfect way to ease myself into it though. I mean, I love Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover and I really enjoyed Forget You by Jennifer Echols and both books have sex scenes. I feel like I've grown! 

HISTORICAL FICTION
I love the idea of historical fiction, like I've talked about many times, but I don't really enjoy historical fiction. I have a good deal of HF on my shelves but I usually shy away from them. Honestly I'm afraid I'll get disappointed, because I usually am. Although, I've bought All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doer, Red Queen and The Other Boleyn by Philippa Gregory, all the Edward Rutherford novels (which is currently translated into Danish) and a few others. I've even tried reading The Book Thief - two times and I've never gotten more than halfway through and even that has been a struggle. 
So, I still read it once in a while but I don't think it's my genre. 

NONFICTION
I'd never thought I'd be a reader of nonfiction - but I actually love it. I don't really read biographies, and I fear I never will, but I like memoirs. The Happiness Project is one of my all time favorite books, A Room of One's Own is high on the list as well! I also just read Som i et spejl which is a Danish book (not translated, yet) about 7 important female characters in literature. 
I've even received the Danish edition of Popular by Maya van Wagenen for review and I'm really looking forward to it! 
As long as it's memoirs and about literature, I guess I like it. 

CLASSICS
Another genre I thought I wouldn't enjoy. I'm still not totally into it, since I have a hard time finding ones I need to read. I have all of Austen's works though and a bunch of the Wordsworth editions, a massive copy of Les Mis and many others. I was unfortunately disappointed by both A Clockwork Orange and 1984 which was the ones I wanted to read with a passion! So, my real problem is a fear of disappointment! 

YA
In 2012 I didn't think about the fact that books were divided into YA, childrens and adult. I knew where the YA books where at the library but I never thought about it. Then after discovering booktube and bookblogging in 2013 I became obsessed with YA and read mainly that. Now, I still enjoy it, but it's far from the only thing I read.
I feel different about YA know because, well, I am a bit older, but I also feel like we read about the same tropes all the time. There's not much new in YA. Sometimes I even have a hard time distinguishing books e.g. All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven and My Heart and Other Black Holes by Jasmine Warga.

NA
Just like erotica there was a time where I said 'never' but around my 17th or 18th birthday I thought I might as well try a book or two and well, The Edge of Never by J.A. Redmerski is still one of my favorite books. I've also just read Ugly Love which was so, so good and I have Losing it on my TBR shelf!
I fear that I'll come across some of those books that are written solely for the sex scenes, but I feel like it's a bigger problem in erotica and not new adult. The main reason I enjoy new adult though, is the fact that the characters are older, more my age and I can relate to them. I have a hard time relating to YA characters at this point.

SHORT STORIES AND NOVELLAS
I was unsure whether to include this or not, but it is a writing genre, so why not?
I've always had a hard time with short stories and novellas, but I'm really starting to enjoy them! I have Kindred Spirits on my shelf, I have a collection of Fay Weldon's short stories waiting to be read and reviewed, I've just bought a short story collection from Penguin and I actually own a bunch of anthologies!
When I need a book I can jump in and out of, I think an anthology is great. You can read a story here and a story there! I've been disappointed in the past though, but I'm trying to pick 'better' - e.g. find ones I actually want to read.

Is there any genres you feel different about, now?

Reflecting on 2015

2015 was a year full of new books! It was a year where I evolved, where I became aware just how much I can handle and I realized that I'm not sure who and what I want to be yet. It was also a year filled with milestones;

In 2015 I turned 18
In 2015 me and my boyfriend celebrated our 3 year anniversary
In 2015 I graduated or I became what we call 'student' here in Denmark
In 2015 I received my first proof copy
In 2015 I received my first actual ARC
In 2015 I reached 100+ followers on G+
In 2015 I reached 1000 followers on Instagram
In 2015 I started receiving physical books for review from Danish publishers and a Danish site
In 2015 I created a new blog in Danish called Frk. Litteratur (Miss Literature)

So, that's a quick summary of my year. The majority was reached in the last 4-6 months! I'm quite proud of everything I achieved this year.

Let's talk literature;

In 2015 I read a total of 130 books! I'm quite astonished with that number since my goal was 75. Aside from that I read 32 childrens books, short stories and novellas in total, I also read 3 graphic novels. Yes, I like to keep it separate since I don't think graphic novels count as books!
According to goodreads I read 43. 487 in 2015 - I have no idea whether that's true or not but it's probably around that number.
The best books I read in 2015 was;

• A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1) by Sarah J. Maas
• The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald
• Finding Audrey by Sophie Kinsella
• I nærheden (Nearby) by Peter Hugge
• All of the Above by James Dawson
• You (You, #1) by Caroline Kepnes
• A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
• If You Find This Letter by Hannah Brencher 

 I quite like that it's a mix of YA, adult and nonfiction!

When it comes to the amount of books read July was definitely an amazing month! Somehow I managed to read 20 books! I believe cramathon made that happen! I read the least amount of books in September where I managed to read 4.

The longest book I read was A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1) by George R.R. Martin with a whopping 780 pages - close second was Dublin or The Princes of Ireland - which is the original title - with 768 pages!
The shortest book I read was The Pearl by John Steinbeck though and I was not a fan!

The book which surprised me the most was The Selection (The Selection, #1) by Kiera Cass. I picked it up on a whim expecting a mediocre but fast read and what I got was definitely a fast read but I loved it. I'm waiting for the last book to be released to I can marathon The Heir and The Crown since they are about the daughter!
I've also had some disappointing reads, as I'm sure everybody have. I have two that really disappointed me; 99 Days by Katie Cotugno and Belzhar by Meg Wolitzer.

Since I don't have any goals, except for reading 75 books, I really have nothing else to say about 2015. Here's to a great 2016!

All the series I won't finish

Last month I wrote a post listing all the series I need to finish and I figured that I might as well make a list with all the series I won't finish as well. I've been quite focused on the series lately and I'll probably make a post where I talk about reading series in general as well - so look out for that post!

As I mentioned in the series I need to finish post, I'm not that good at reading series and I sometimes choose not to finish a series even if I've enjoyed the first book in the series. That's just how I am .
Some of these series are great and I know a lot of people enjoy them but they're simply not my cup of tea. There are also some series where I've just forgotten about them and since I don't want to reread them I might as well abandon the series. And for the rest of them I feel like they would be better as standalones so I've chosen not to continue so as not to ruin my view of the book!

Carbon Diaries by Saci Lloyd

The first series I chose not to finish was the Carbon Diaries by Saci Lloyd. The first one was okay and I'd actually borrowed both of them from the library. I really tried reading the sequel but it was not as good as the first one, meaning it was terrible, and I didn't really want to read it.
This was a series I tried to read long before I got into blogging and new there was booktube and book bloggers and such. I've heard no one talk about it since I got into the online book community so I guess not many people like this series. It is quite interesting though!

Matched by Ally Condie

Another series I tried to read before I got into the online book community. I had to read Matched for a book club and I struggled my way through it. I didn't like a single thing about it and I can't even remember what it's about to save my life! So, at the time of reading it I didn't like it and it's not memorable enough to make me remember anything about it a couple of years later so definitely not worth the read for me.

The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey

I know there's like a ton of you out there who's completely obsessed with this series but I really don't like it. I managed to read the entire thing but it was a struggle. I loved the idea but the actual thing is not really up my alley.
I think it may have to do with his writing style since I've given up on another series of his.

The Program by  Suzanne Young

Another book where I had high hopes and they weren't reached. I'd been on a waitlist for this book for a couple of months and when I finally received it I checked it out from the library, found a couch in said library and began reading.
I liked the beginning, it was interesting, but it quickly went downhill from there and since then I've had no intention of reading the prequel or sequel.

Study by Maria V. Snyder

I can't for the life of me remember where I heard about this series but I have a feeling it's booktube. I waited impatiently for the book to arrive at my local library and when I received it I managed to read it in a day, even though I didn't like it that much. I remember thinking certain parts where intriguing and that I liked the main character but I had no intention of reading the rest of the series and I still don't.

Heist  Society by Ally Carter

Another series I'd heard nothing but great things about and when I tried to read it I was disappointed. I struggled to get through Heist Society and I don't think I'll ever read the rest of the series.

The Goddess War by Kendare Blake

I absolutely love reading about Greek mythology - even though I've only ever been impressed by one book about Greek gods and mythology - and when I found out that Kendare Blake, author of Anna Dressed in Blood, had written a book with Greek mythology I had to read it! I tried reading it, I really did, and I actually managed to finish it, but it wasn't that good. I was so so disappointed.
I actually read Antigoddess as a buddyread and you can read our discussion here.

Alienated by Melissa Landers

Aliens and blogs.. It sounds quite intriguing and I even managed to buy it as a birthday present for myself and I hate to admit that I didn't like it as much as I'd hoped. It was okay but I really was expecting more!

Pretty Little Liars by Sara Shepard

I've read the first book; Pretty Little Liars and since I like the show more than the book I figured I might as well continue watching the show instead of reading a 16 book series when I have so many other books to read.
Her Perfectionists duology is quite good though, I have reviews for both books; The Perfectionists and The Good Girls. 

If I  Stay by Gayle Forman

I really enjoyed If I Stay until the ending.. I'm not going to spoil it for you so don't worry but I didn't like the ending. I tried reading the sequel Where She Went and it was awful. I believe I managed to read a couple of chapters and I'm never picking it up again. I wish If I Stay was a standalone instead. It's perfectly fine on its own.

Legend by Marie Lu

I actually managed to read both Legend and Prodigy before abandoning this series. I remember finishing Prodigy on my birthday and thinking nope, I can't do this. It's a mediocre series in my opinion and I didn't even like the characters or the plotline. I have no idea why I began reading it in the first place.

Fearsome Dreamer by Laure Eve

Fearsome Dreamer was actually the first physical book I ever received for review and I didn't like it.. I figured that since I'm bad at reading series and I didn't like where the story was heading I might as well just stop there. And I did, the series still sound intriguing though.

Other series I won't finish

• Between by April Genevieve Tucholke
• Voodoo Nights by Lizzy Ford (review)
• Killer Instinct by S.E. Green
• Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi (review)
• The Cure by Charlotte McConaghy
• Among Us by Anne-Rae Vasquez
• The PSS Chronicles by Ripley Patton (review)
• Legacy Code by Autumn Kalquist
• The Van Wrinkle Project by Karri Thompson
• Vivian Apple by Katie Coyle (review)
• Tabitha Baird by Arabella Weir (review)
• Lumikki Andersson by Salla Simukka (review)
• Razorland by Ann Aguirre
• The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey
• Unwind by Neal Shusterman

Is there any series you won't finish?