Reading Past Midnight

I haven’t kept a blog in years so I’m a bit rusty at this but I have lots of time to relearn how to do all this.  Bear with me!

I’ve created blogs about my life, blogs about my crafting (when I used to do a lot of crafting) and I’ve always wanted to do a book review blog, so why not start now?

Ever since I was a pre-teen (back in the early 90’s) and stumbled upon my older cousin’s Teen Dreams young adult books, I was hooked.  Then came Sweet-Valley High and books by R.L. Stine and Christopher Pike!  Wow, I’m really taking myself down memory lane here.  I can see the library at middle school just at the front of my mind, the smell of the paperback books, that sense of calm perusing the library shelves.  And then L.J. Smith wrote The Vampire Diaries and I wasn’t only hooked, I fell in LOVE, hard.

If that shows my age, so be it!  I know the story has been made into a successful tv series, but I was 12 when that book came out.  Those Salvatore brothers – swoon.  And Elena and her friends – loved them!  I read and re-read all of her books, over and over and over again, well into my late 20’s.  My original copies of the books fell apart and I bought the new editions.

Many years later, now I’m a mother of two children, E is 6 going on 7 this year, and L just turned 2.  I went from a working woman to a stay-at-home mom.  It’s been filled with challenges, fun times, hard times and I’ve never had my sleep cycle tested so much until I had kids.  Some nights I’m just crazy exhausted, but I’m getting back into the groove where my sleep cycle is getting back to what it was pre-kids.

Yet even through life’s changes and challenges – the one thing that stayed constant is my love of books.  I read.  I read so much.  I started logging how much I read on my GoodReads account and last year I read 60+ books alone.  Why so much?  Reading online through the kindle app in the past few years has given me chances to read while putting my kids to sleep.  I still love physical books but leaving the lamp on all night – past midnight – wasn’t ideal for me, my hubby or my kids (wherever I parked myself to sleep at night for the past 6 years haha).  Reading on my iPad is so convenient – I’m usually reading past midnight while everyone sleeps.  Hence the title of my blog.  Appropriate, don’t you think?

I read a lot of romance and young adult genres lately, it used to be more varied.  I had phases growing up: mysteries, horror, suspense, thrillers, fantasy, but lately I just want to read happy endings.

If you have recommendations on new romance and young adult books you think I’d like, please let me know in the comments below!  I’m always looking for new books to read.