These discussions are always fascinating, coming from country where there hasn’t really been young adult, new adult and so on age-based genres. There are children and young as a one group, and adults as the other group, that’s it. Then there might be categorizing by genre: scifi, romance, war, crime, etc. But the big, age based genres are just children and other people.
And I can see YA giving confusion among our librarians, I’ve seen Maas’ A Court of Thorn and Roses in the children and young people side at library.
I like to read about things beyond me. And while I also suffered quite traumatic past, I like to steer away such books. I tend to gravitate towards books that wake feelings of awe, love, compassion, intrigue.
I’m quite book tourist I guess, now that I think about it. I rather not visit my past, but like to go around exciting, beautiful places sight-seeing, getting to know interesting people, motives and places. I’m picky, I admit. I just feel that so many darker books take away something from me, rather than add something valuable to my life. I want to feel fulfilled of wonder when book ends, not hollow.
Mainly I read non-fiction.