attempting obscurity
I mess around with writing, but deep down I'm pretty sure I'll never actually get published because I treat it like a hobby and not a passion -- I write when I have time, instead of making time to write.
When I read, I prefer YA sci-fi/ fantasy as my go-to fiction reads. I tend toward this genre because I read fiction as an escape from the daily drudge of life. YA sci/fi-fantasy usually has more upbeat/ hopeful endings, while adult fiction of any genre (except romance) tends to have more depressingly realistic endings. Sometimes I read romance novels, but I really prefer the type with plot/ character development between sex scenes, and I don't like having to hunt for them.
In non-fiction, I prefer history, biographies, psychology, gender studies, social/applied sciences, and law/ public policy.
Currently reading
A Short History of Women: A Novel
Eh. I'd read some great reviews of this, but I just couldn't get into it. Too disjointed. It traces the paths of 3 or 4 different women along the same genealogical line, great-grandmother down to great-granddaughter. It keeps jumping back and forth, without substantially different voices for the different women, and in the end I just felt sort of disconnected and bored with the whole thing.
