Favorite Genre Blogfest: Adventure! (and . . .some news!)

Genre Favorites Blogfest is here! Brought to us by our favorite Ninja Captain, Alex J. Cavanaugh - Alex seriously knows how to throw a blogfest party with awesome topics like our favorite genre in movies, books, music, and a guilty pleasure from any of the three. Got a favorite? Want to join, just go to Alex's site, and click on the linky list for fun!

 

Spoiler Alert: I'm not sure I did this "by the rules" - I just don't pick absolute favorites well.

 

 For books and movies my favorite genres center around a subgenre: Adventure!

 

Adventure doesn't have it's own shelves at a bookstore, or it's own section at a movie store (or redbox). It often is used as an after label, after scifi, action, fantasy, thriller, etc.

 

For books it's really hard for me to choose a favorite genre because they are both wrapped up in Adventure!

 

Fantasy Adventure: I like sword fights, quests, and treasure hunts all with amazing, imaginative world building. A little romance thrown in is nice, but I don't want too many details there.

Space Opera/SciFi Adventure: Blasters and space bandits - oh yes. Shootouts between starships - awesome!

 

In Movies: Comic Fantasy Adventure is my current favorite. I love movies like Avengers . . . and no, it's not Thor's princess hair that has me hooked. I like the action scenes, the cool CGI, the characterization and plot. (Big Bad Dude/Dudettes get whipped by Heroes - yes, it's simple, but I still like it)

 

So basically, if it's a book or a movie, and it's focused on adventure, I'm in.

 

In music: Christian, mostly Christian Rock/Pop: Skillet, TFK, Superchick!, Icon For Hire, Newsboys, Toby Mac, Manafest. I listen to upbeat, moving rythms that gets me on my feet, dancing and singing or shouting my lungs out.

 

See a common theme here? . . .my guilty pleasure . . Adventure! Dance! Movement!

 

Drama's all good for a psychological-mental understanding of emotional events . . . but I would rather dance. Really. Or Jump. Or Ski. Or Bike Ride. Or Sprint. Or Climb a Tree. Swim. Kayak. Fence with Sabres. Box. (I've only boxed once, but it was fun).

 

I just need to do all that more . . .

 

(for those who don't know, I have a messed up foot that makes sprinting impossible, but I am working on the four letter word thing (diet), and biking, swimming, and pilates. Anyway, when I get my weight down further, I fully intend to dance, sprint, jump, climb trees, kayak more, fence (again), and get my husband to put up his old everlast punching bag so I can try boxing again.) (Skiing happens in whatever shape or pain I'm in . . beautiful snowy mountains make me crazy that way.)

 

 

So, enough about me, what is your favorite genre?

 

 

 

So . . that was the end of my post officially until . . .I saw this awesome news from Every Day Poets: 

 

Whether you partake of it in silence and alone or aloud in company, reading poetry from a wide range of poets around the world is the best way to hone poetic sensibilities and sharpen your literary eye.

 

The Best of Every Day Poets Two brings together one hundred short poems selected from Every Day Poets’ second year of publication. This book unites a worldwide array of poets writing from a broad gamut of experience and perception, and represents the cream of a year’s journey through poetry of every form and flavour.

Start here, and make poetry a habit.

 

 

 

The Best of Every Day Poets Two is going to be available soon at Amazon and Barnes and Noble. 
Why I'm excited: my poem, "March Snow Hare" made it into the anthology!