It's kind of strange knowing that the first thing people think of when they hear "young adult" could be Twilight. Luckily, my brother (who was with me) knew he was talking about Twilight. Remembering the conversation with my boyfriend, I said "mostly young adult fiction" (in case he wasn't a reader) and his response was "oh, like the ones with vampires?" I was SO confused. While I was waiting to get a new phone at the Apple store, the guy who helped me out asked about the type of books I like to read after I told him I like reading. More times than "young adult," I'd think! But to people who don't read at all (like my boyfriend-although I did get him to read The Hunger Games and Catching Fire!) I understand why it could be kind of confusing. Having been part of the book blogging community for a little while now, "YA" is written EVERYWHERE. Some time last year, I was talking with my boyfriend about the many YA books being turned into movies ( Divergent, The Fault in Our Stars, Mockingjay, etc.) and he made fun of me for calling young adult "YA." He knows what the young adult genre is, but he didn't think it made sense for me to abbreviate it because " nobody but you would call it that."
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