Introduction

I’ve called this blog the Boomerang Generation partially because that’s where I find myself at the moment: I’m 22, just out of college, and I boomeranged back home to live with my parents. I know that my situation is far from unique, and I figured I could try to write about it. I have always been a fan of half-starting blogs and never really keeping them up. But with this unexpected amount of free time that has been afforded to me—seeing that I’m a part-time employee who is no longer a student—I am going to actually try to keep up with a blog for more than just a few months.

And the focus is going to be all books concerning the Boomerang Generation, or at least generations or groups of people that feel lost, in the middle, waiting for the next thing to happen. I want to read books about people who are in the awkward transitions in their lives, and I want to write about those books. As I write reviews of these novels and stories, sometimes I will attempt to join my two favorite mediums of entertainment by creating a playlist to go along with a book I review. Even if the type of transition in the book I read is different from the one I am making in my life, I know it will be inspiring to me as I attempt to find my way into adulthood.

The arts—specifically literature or music—have always provided me with a sense of companionship. For whatever situation I may find myself in, there is always a novel to turn to or an album to listen to where I can find a comrade…even if, sometimes, they are just a fictional character.