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30 Days of Genre
(I'm always kind of tickled when sff gets referred to as "genre". There should be a literary term for "co-opting a categorical title for one specific subcategory so you feel less inadequate". Personally, I feel like that a truly "genre" book would be a sff romance detective adventure. Which I would totally read.)
(...Actually, you could probably classify several of the Vorkosigan Saga books as sff romance detective adventures, so I HAVE totally read a genre book. You should too! They're awesome!)
Day 1: Your Very First Genre Novel
Calling on Dragons, by Patricia C. Wrede (yes, I read the third one first. We were at the beach and I finished all my other books, so I stole it from mea soror). I was only in third grade, but I was already a big fan of both fairy tales AND fractured fairy tales (mainly due to Rocky and Bullwinkle). The lulz and bamf heroine just made it even better.
Runners up: The Belgariad, by David Eddings (first proper fantasy series, 5th grade), and Wild Magic, by Tamora Pierce (the book that actually hooked me on reading sff all the time, 6th grade).
Have a meme!
30 Days of Genre
(I'm always kind of tickled when sff gets referred to as "genre". There should be a literary term for "co-opting a categorical title for one specific subcategory so you feel less inadequate". Personally, I feel like that a truly "genre" book would be a sff romance detective adventure. Which I would totally read.)
(...Actually, you could probably classify several of the Vorkosigan Saga books as sff romance detective adventures, so I HAVE totally read a genre book. You should too! They're awesome!)
Day 1: Your Very First Genre Novel
Calling on Dragons, by Patricia C. Wrede (yes, I read the third one first. We were at the beach and I finished all my other books, so I stole it from mea soror). I was only in third grade, but I was already a big fan of both fairy tales AND fractured fairy tales (mainly due to Rocky and Bullwinkle). The lulz and bamf heroine just made it even better.
Runners up: The Belgariad, by David Eddings (first proper fantasy series, 5th grade), and Wild Magic, by Tamora Pierce (the book that actually hooked me on reading sff all the time, 6th grade).