Feature and Follow Friday – 3/21/14

Feature and Follow Friday is a weekly blog hop hosted by Parajunkee and Alison Can Read.  The idea of this blog hop is for bloggers to have an opportunity to make new friends and gain new followers.  I follow you and you follow me.

Question of the week:  How have your reading habits changed in the past few years?  Did you get interested in a new genre?  Do you read more?  Less?  Why do you think your habits have changed, if they did?

I’m not sure about just this last year, but my reading habits have changed greatly over the last few years.  At one time I had loved the Jonathan Kellerman/James Patterson type of crime novels.  I would read through them faster than I could buy them.  Then once I became a mom, I couldn’t stomach the murder mysteries anymore.  I think a couple that I had picked up involved young children and I was done.  When the kids were little and I was mostly a stay at home mom, I read a lot of contemporary novels and chick lit.  Once my kids were reading, I would often read books that they were reading so we could discuss them.  This is how I discovered Harry Potter and became enamored with children’s literature.  Now more recently, with teens in the house, I’m reading a lot of young adult fiction, particularly young adult paranormal and fantasy.  Hunger Games and now the Divergent series have been two series my daughter and I have enjoyed together.  I still read a lot of contemporary adult fiction and have recently discovered magical realism through Sarah Addison Allen’s books and absolutely love it.

I don’t get to read as much as I would like.  I now find I have to be very deliberate about making time for reading.  Between homeschooling my children, teaching at our homeschool coop and working part time at church, I have precious little time to engage in my own pleasure reading.

Ebooks have completely changed the way I read as well.  Being able to carry my entire library with me wherever I go has made reading on the go so much easier.  I now find I’m reading and listening to a few books at once!

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Want to play along?  Here are the rules:

1. (Required) Follow the Follow My Book Blog Friday Hosts {Parajunkee & Alison Can Read}
2. (Required) Follow our Featured Bloggers
3. Put your Blog name & URL in the Linky thing. You can also grab the code if you would like to insert it into your posts.
4. Grab the button up there and place it in a post, this post is for people to find a place to say “hi” in your comments and that they are now following you.
5. If you are using WordPress or another CMS that doesn’t have GFC (Google Friends Connect) state in your posts how you would like to be followed
6. Follow Follow Follow as many as you can, as many as you want, or just follow a few. The whole point is to make new friends and find new blogs. Also, don’t just follow, comment and say hi. Another blogger might not know you are a new follower if you don’t say “HI”
7. If someone comments and says they are following you, be a dear and follow back. Spread the Love…and the followers

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