Laura L.

When I’m not at the library I am either writing melodramatic poetry or watching the Great British Baking Show, despite not being able to bake.

The Last thing I read: A Quiet Place by Seicho Matsumoto

My Top 6.5 favorite books (trying to keep it to 5 nearly gave me an existential crisis)

• Cat’s Eye by Margret Atwood
• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
• Bright Dead Things by Ada Limon
• The Percy Jackson and the Olympians series by Rick Riordan
• Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion
• The Time Machine and War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells (they’re by the same author so they count as one)
• The Yellow Wallpaper (short story) by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Favorite Genres and Subgenres:

• Young Adult Fiction: Dystopian, Fantasy romance
• Horror: Zombies, Paranormal, Apocalyptic
• Science Fiction: Galactic empire, Generation ship, Space exploration, Time travel
• Literary Fiction: Japanese translations, Coming of age stories, Experimental
• Poetry:  Autobiographical, Satire