who is your guiltiest pleasure author?
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who is your guiltiest pleasure author?
- LoveHatesYou
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n8gray wrote:personally i am a fan of George Pelecanos. he writes D.C. crime dramas about a black cop in DC who cracks skulls and betters the neighborhood.... but they're just so fun to read. i know there is no literray value to them, but i do enjoy the snapshot of life in DC, he does a great job of making you feel you're walking the street with the character.
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Favourites of mine include Susan Wiggs, Linda Lael Miller, Julie Garwood, Marion Lennox, Suzanne Brockmann....
I just love reading a book sometimes that I don't have to think about, that I can just read and enjoy and know I'll come away feeling good.
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But... in this sort of group, I love a good cozy mystery series. I love the IDEA of a bunch of them, like with a bookstore owner sleuth or a wine lover sleuth. But unfortunately, this is genre I have a lot of unfinished books in, because the author couldn't quite carry it off.
I used to like a lot of chick lit too, but now they mostly seem like crap. I loved Marian Keyes until recently, though. And I grew up on Victoria Holt and Patricia Veryan, with their historical romances.
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I think it's important to read widely: classics, both modern and old; detective novels; romance; chic lit; modern experimental fiction etc.
I studied Literature at Uni, but can still indulge in slush. I'm just finishing a children's classic: The Swiss Family Robinson, which has been disappointingly boring. I only have about 20 pages left, but how they're dragging! Will read something gripping next, a Patricia Cornwell is lined up. After that, maybe another Dickens.
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One of the nicest things about these stories is that they are history on wars, transportation, medicine, in the kitchen, around the house, at school, music, musicians, actors and actresses ..... and the list goes on! They make great bedtime stories too. Currently I'm reading the book, Dear Old Golden School Days. I love reading about the country one room schools! Another of those books just came in the mail. It is: Saturdays in the Good Old Days.
You can check out these books and magazines on line at: GoodOldDaysMagazine.com, because as Le Var Burton on the children's program, "Reading Rainbow" always said, "You don't have to take my word for it...."
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