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What are your guilty book pleasures?

23 replies

Geekster1963 · 06/11/2019 11:42

I like the Dairy of a Wimpy Kid books. Don't know that as a 40 something year old I should admit to this!

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Nottobesoldseparately · 06/11/2019 11:54

I really enjoyed the Twilight and 50 shades sagas.

I'm in my 40's.

And Harry Potter doesn't count does it??

AndNoneForGretchenWieners · 06/11/2019 11:55

Twilight and Hunger Games. But I also like the Flowers in the Attic series, I read them as a child and now I can understand all the stuff that went over my head at the time!

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 06/11/2019 12:00

Chick lit - writers like Jill Mansell, Nora Roberts, Heidi Swain. The Chalet School series by Elinor M Brent-Dyer. The Harry Potter books.

But my most shameful and guilty book pleasures are Mills and Boon type hospital romances - especially the ones by Lucilla Andrews and Betty Neels. I have all of Betty's books, and they live in a crate under my bed, because I am too ashamed to have them on the bookshelves, though I am less ashamed of the Lucilla Andrews ones, so they are on the shelves. I was a nurse, and they both were, so they are good at the historical nursing details. At least, that's my excuse! Blush

Winterfellismyhome · 06/11/2019 12:05

Crap romance books. The type on kindle unlimited. I do read "proper" fiction too but like these for some light relief

Geekster1963 · 06/11/2019 12:05

I really enjoyed The Hunger Games too. I remember my friend reading Flowers in the Attic when I was at school but I've never read them.

I don't think the Harry Potter books count as so many adults read them.

I've got the perfect excuse to have these books on my shelf as I'm keeping them for DD.

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marshmallowkittycat · 06/11/2019 12:07

The Anne Rice vampire books are my guilty pleasure. I don't think they're too badly written, just not exactly highly acclaimed literature!

FacebookRager · 06/11/2019 12:36

Terrible, awful smutty books are my guilty pleasure. Mills and Boon or MS Parker stuff. Fifty Shades too. I know, I know. They're awful.
But my Kindle Unlimited has so many to choose from!

Shoxfordian · 06/11/2019 14:42

I like the shopaholic series by sophie kinsella, very easy to read and entertaining

professionalnomad · 06/11/2019 15:53

Kindle unlimited is dangerous...

I too have often fallen into the abyss of smutty fantasy

sableandI · 06/11/2019 16:13

Shopaholic series by Sophie Kinsella. Absolutely hilarious

josephineisblue · 06/11/2019 16:15

Jacqueline Susann - not really a guilty secret, valley of the dolls is one of the best books all time Grin

theproudgeek · 06/11/2019 16:22

Probably my Star Trek novels. All the rest of our books live downstairs, my 100+ Star Trek books are upstairs where visitors don't go.

AndNoneForGretchenWieners · 06/11/2019 16:35

theproudgeek my friend at school's mum used to write the Star Trek novels under a pseudonym! Visiting their house was odd. Her and my friend's dad had had their ears surgically altered and it was ST everywhere. I think she ran the fan club too.

cannycat20 · 06/11/2019 16:40

Lorna Hill. Jean Estoril. C. S. Lewis' Narnia series. Dinah Lampitt. Ray Bradbury. Stephen King. Ladybird Well-Loved Tales.

Obviously my "for show" bookshelves are full of worthy classics, some of which I have read. The rest provide great insulation.

ThisIsM · 06/11/2019 16:59

Oh my gosh yes to the flowers in the attic series!! One of those books you just never forget and stays with you.

I really loved the Judy Blume adult books, summer sisters Blush

theproudgeek · 06/11/2019 17:24

AndNoneForGretchenWieners I promise my ears are normal, although DD did have a Star Trek babygro. But that is very cool about your friend's mum, wonder if I've read any of the ones she wrote.

mbosnz · 06/11/2019 17:43

Karen Rose books.

The Chalet School Series.

Georgette Heyer books.

The 'Why Mummy Drinks/Swears' Books.

weebarra · 06/11/2019 17:46

Urban fantasy romance stuff - Illona Andrews, patricia Briggs, Kelley Armstrong

PsychosonicCindy · 06/11/2019 17:55

Agatha Raisin
Jaqueline Wilson dd1 put all hers in the charity shop box and I got them all out again!
Love the Enid Blyton St. Clares hoping for the Malory Towers set for my birthday!
Currently reading Swallows & Amazons again.
I'm 44.

charactersonclothesaretrashy · 06/11/2019 18:56

I'm getting into alternative parenting books. Currently reading a book about a mum who took her girl to protests in Cairo and Mexico as a toddler

charactersonclothesaretrashy · 06/11/2019 18:56

I also like ghost stories and Christmas based stories too.

PsychosonicCindy · 06/11/2019 19:19

I also like Christmas stories and frothy fiction ones about knitting groups/cupcake cafes etc!
(I do read proper books too...)

historysock · 06/11/2019 19:42

Twilight saga.
And anything by Philippa Gregory.

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