30 Day Book Challenge: 12
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kasihyaHoly shit suddenly it's tomorrow! Yikes! Oh well.
Day 12 – A book you used to love but don’t anymore
The Sight. I had lower standards for quality of writing back when I first read it in middle school, and now even though I remember the story being really cool and well-researched, I just can’t get past the writing.
Of course, at the same time I realized that I could no longer love The Sight, after having pined for it from afar for several years, I picked up A Game of Thrones, and it was like finding the adult version of that book. They are in no way comparable, but in my mental-picture-impressions they both have similar looks/feels, that's what I mean. Both books set in cold places with wolves and politics, basically.
I could also say most of Tamora Pierce's books, because I loved them when I was younger but now, objectively, I can see that they weren't the greatest books ever. I cherish the memories, but I'm afraid to read them again in case they actually are unbearable like The Sight. (Okay, I hate Alanna's books a little, because it is not that fucking easy to hide your sex. It just fucking isn't and I am bitter about this.)
Day 12 – A book you used to love but don’t anymore
The Sight. I had lower standards for quality of writing back when I first read it in middle school, and now even though I remember the story being really cool and well-researched, I just can’t get past the writing.
Of course, at the same time I realized that I could no longer love The Sight, after having pined for it from afar for several years, I picked up A Game of Thrones, and it was like finding the adult version of that book. They are in no way comparable, but in my mental-picture-impressions they both have similar looks/feels, that's what I mean. Both books set in cold places with wolves and politics, basically.
I could also say most of Tamora Pierce's books, because I loved them when I was younger but now, objectively, I can see that they weren't the greatest books ever. I cherish the memories, but I'm afraid to read them again in case they actually are unbearable like The Sight. (Okay, I hate Alanna's books a little, because it is not that fucking easy to hide your sex. It just fucking isn't and I am bitter about this.)
