Maggy’s Mini YA Library!

This website is to help document the readings and other YA media that occurs during INFO 265: Materials for Young Adults with Lisa Houde. Each blog post will be clear and will describe the material so that it will perhaps interest a young adult reader.

The intended audience for this blog are teens and young adults. Anyone who would be interested in learning about some new and more recent young adult books, tv shows, video games, or podcasts. I’m especially interested in LGBTQ+ or YA that pushes boundaries of what adults may find “acceptable.”

This will be an incredible journey and one that I am so thrilled to be on! Young Adult books is a genre I am less familiar with, but as my son is 10 years old it is time I familiarize myself with this set of books as he gets older and becomes more interested in the YA world.

There is a Menu Bar at the top with the options listed. The first is the blog where I will be posting at least once a week if not more all of my current YA reads, games, etc. The other items are ways to index and keep everything organized by category. The list includes the Title (of the book, game, etc), Author (of the media), Format (is it a book or a tv show), and what Genre is the media (fantasy, romance, sci-fi).

Hello! My name is Maggy! I am a POC and a 40 year-old mom to 2 of the coolest kids in the universe. I have been married to the best person in the world for almost 15 years and during that time I have done so much, lived all over the world including Japan, Germany and all over the United States (by choice weirdly enough and not because of the military!) and we currently live in Colorado! I am nearing the end of my time with SJSU and hopefully next Spring will be doing my E-portfolio.

Now that I have written 30 blog posts about books I have read or shows that I have watched, I realize I have read way more than what I have posted about. There have been some emergent themes in what is currently popular in YA and that is definitely romance. I had a tough time finding newer books that were geared towards a “male” audience. I’m sure that they are out there, I just did not know where to look. The other thing I noticed is that graphic novels and manga are incredibly popular. Everywhere I went I was inundated with graphic novels. I feel it was very tough to get away from it, and I did not really want to. I would have read 100 graphic novels I enjoyed them so much. I am a series finisher so as soon as I started a book series, you can bet I read the subsequent books. So yeah, my 15 books are actually at least 50 or more. Plus so many others that I forgot about because I read them on Kindle Unlimited or checked them out at the library and returned them without writing about them. My husband told me that he hopes I return back to him after this semester because all I did was read books.

I can safely say that this semester has brought back my love of reading with a vengeance. I cannot seem to stop. The floodgates have been opened and everything else seems boring. I forgot how much fun reading is. Kindle Unlimited is my new best friend. Libby is my favorite. I love Barnes and Noble. Reading is my new favorite again! Thanks!