To be honest I don’t have a specific favorite book, it depend on the story and how I feel reading them. When I was thirteen I loved the Twilight series but then I realized the reason why I was reading it was because of peer pressure. Most people I knew read Twilight and Twilight was the biggest thing young girls could read. After two years I lost my interest in Twilight and lost interest in Fantasy except for the book Beastly. Beastly was the only fantasy book I could read because the book‘s message really interested me. It was about the true image of beauty. I loved the fact that the main character, who was a “jerk”, got punished by becoming a beast for two years until he found his true love. What I don’t like about this book now, and as I was reading it, is that the expectation of how to find love is unrealistic. Although all fantasy has unrealistic expectations of love and happy endings, this was the only part of Beastly I didn’t like. I don’t think any one could fall for a hideous beast, especially if he kidnaped you and if he force you to live with him against your will. How could you fall in love with him in the end?

Another genre I like which is really odd in my behalf is one of those teenage drug addict diary stories. I hope you know what I mean, one of those diary entries where a young girl document herself experimenting drugs just like the books Crank and Go Ask Alice.  I find it odd for me to like this type of genre because I am what people might call a “prude”. A person who is not into the whole drinking, drugs, and other peer pressure things that teens are doing these days. Basically I’m really lame from some teenagers' perspective. Though I really like Go Ask Alice because it is the type of book that I can read through a perspective that is nothing like me, it’s like seeing a whole different world. Another experience that I could see without taking the risk of actually taking crack or speed. The stories are real and very suspenseful which I also like about this genre.

I read few adult books which I started reading them last year. Most of the teens books were either fantasy romance or up coming of age where the girl finds a way to get her first kiss or loose her virginity which really bores me.  Two of the adult books that I really liked was The Color Purple and The Bluest Eyes. The Bluest Eyes was the second adult book I read and the most complicated one. Half of the time I have no idea what was going on and sometimes I feel stupid just reading it. Though I was only sixteen at that time, so I guess it was understandable that I was confused. I couldn’t tell if I’d like the book or not but the story line was both interesting and confusing. It was uncomfortable for me to read the book at that time because the narration was both graphic and vulgar. What I loved about the book was that it explains about the struggles of African American's image and beauty where they see beauty as having blond hair and blue eyes. Even now it is difficult to see yourself beautiful if beauty is define by one culture instead of by verities of different cultures.  This book can relate to a lot of the audiences, because the story line is real and the structure of the book is confusing so you would never get bored of reading it again.