ABOUT ME--
Welcome to my book review site! My name is Paulina Romero. I am a soon-to-be high school graduate—huge shout out to every other senior celebrating the end and freaking out about the new beginning.
Besides a passion for reading and writing I also love photography. If you like photography, please check out my photography site here.
I fell in love with reading at a young age. The book I credit with getting me hooked is Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. It was the first book (and novel) I crazed through. After finishing the HP series, I continued reading until I reached 100 books a year in freshman and sophomore years. Junior year got a bit crazy and I stopped reading, but now I am back and better than ever!
This is not my first attempt at a book review blog, but it's the one that will stick! Accompany me in my quest to finish every single novel there is out there (my childhood dream, don't judge) and use the journey to teach myself how to write fantastic book reviews!
I try to read all genres at least a few times, but the umbrella ones are Young Adult and New Adult. Every once in a while I will read a Middle Grade novel, sometimes I read classics instead, but YA and NA are the ones I read the most, the ones that I always come back to. More specific genres would be Chick Lit, Paranormal, Contemporary, Coming of Age, Romance, Historical Fiction, Fantasy, and Crime. The genre I read the least is Non-fiction, but I acknowledge there are some gems out there that would fit under that category.
Besides a passion for reading and writing I also love photography. If you like photography, please check out my photography site here.
I fell in love with reading at a young age. The book I credit with getting me hooked is Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. It was the first book (and novel) I crazed through. After finishing the HP series, I continued reading until I reached 100 books a year in freshman and sophomore years. Junior year got a bit crazy and I stopped reading, but now I am back and better than ever!
This is not my first attempt at a book review blog, but it's the one that will stick! Accompany me in my quest to finish every single novel there is out there (my childhood dream, don't judge) and use the journey to teach myself how to write fantastic book reviews!
I try to read all genres at least a few times, but the umbrella ones are Young Adult and New Adult. Every once in a while I will read a Middle Grade novel, sometimes I read classics instead, but YA and NA are the ones I read the most, the ones that I always come back to. More specific genres would be Chick Lit, Paranormal, Contemporary, Coming of Age, Romance, Historical Fiction, Fantasy, and Crime. The genre I read the least is Non-fiction, but I acknowledge there are some gems out there that would fit under that category.
ABOUT THE BLOG--
The name of the blog is very meaningful to me. For years, after I tell people exactly how much I really do love reading--yes, I did read one book a day last week. I even had time to read all of their Goodreads reviews!—people have asked me exactly why I love to read so much. I don't remember the first time I came up with this answer, but I believe it has always applied to me. I love loosing myself in the story, the hours or days during which the world I am reading about is my world too. Sometimes I become a magician, sometimes an alien, sometimes a girl witnessing true love.
So I called my blog Read Away Reality, because that is what I do—I read away reality.
It is not like I think I am the character I am reading about, but, if the author did his or her job well, I am able to feel myself in their world. That is what I think is most important in a novel—writing it in such a way that the reader can connect with the characters, feel their emotions as though they are his or hers, fantasize about what it would be like if he or she was a member of such community.
Not all books accomplish this. Sometimes the characters are too two-dimensional, or they are so annoying the reader would not want to empathize with them. Sometimes the world-building is weak, and suspension of disbelief is broken. Sometimes the plot just doesn't do it. I have read them all, and I will continue to read them all, because among all of them there are novels that could have been written just for me.
So I called my blog Read Away Reality, because that is what I do—I read away reality.
It is not like I think I am the character I am reading about, but, if the author did his or her job well, I am able to feel myself in their world. That is what I think is most important in a novel—writing it in such a way that the reader can connect with the characters, feel their emotions as though they are his or hers, fantasize about what it would be like if he or she was a member of such community.
Not all books accomplish this. Sometimes the characters are too two-dimensional, or they are so annoying the reader would not want to empathize with them. Sometimes the world-building is weak, and suspension of disbelief is broken. Sometimes the plot just doesn't do it. I have read them all, and I will continue to read them all, because among all of them there are novels that could have been written just for me.