What's your guilty secret reading?

[Snooks14]

What book do you read which you know is absolute trash but you love it anyway?
Mine would be Scruples and Lace - my sister's had them when I was about 11ish and I used to sneak in and read the naughty bits!
I finally read them for myself when I was about 17 or 18 and I still love them - will reread them now and again - like a guilty pleasure.
I also love to now and again reread some of my favourites from when I was young - Little Women and The Little house on the praire books - its like comfort reading.
Anyone else have books like that?

You go girl

Ifancyashandy, i have read a couple and enjoyed them, i keep being reminded of some great books i forget about i read that much! Might dig one out

Phew Itsy! Actually, think she can write a dream - just the subject matter can be a bit dodge! And they are not exactly challenging / cerebral!

But I do love her quote when she was asked how she felt about never being nominated for the Booker...'Booker wouldn't even keep me in fags, love' GENIUS!!!!

And I agree with you Emily (although prob draw line at Black Lace / Mills and Boon / Cartland)!

That quote tickled my fancy!

I agree with ES re not being ashamed of reading anything but when you meet new people who will be trying to 'place' you in some way, maybe I should be wary about admitting my secret comfort read.

For me a bout of flu, an unexpected afternoon off in the mid-winter, a fit of the blues, even bereavement brings on a craving for Nora Roberts or her alter-ego, J D Robb.

I love the fact that I know how the story will end, she'll tug on my heart strings, there'll be trouble on the way but all will be well. The characters are good hearted in the main and the world is manageable.

I'm in a re-reading binge at the moment as I'm busy gardening and don't want to get caught up in a book to the extent that I'll read in stead of sowing, potting or whatever.
Last week was Jonathan Kellerman, Georgette Heyer and now Terry Pratchett.

no guilty literature secrets,did like ps i love you

Another Georgette Heyer fan here, and also Cynthia Harrod-Eagles, queen of the historical family saga. I love children's books too and reread my old Rosemary Sutcliffs and Geoffrey Treases on a regular basis.I love Mary Renault too, but althought she may be comfort reading she is far from a guilty secret.

I love Georgette Heyer. I spent my formative teenage years engrossed in Heyer books. I have all her books stashed under the bed as emergency comfort reads.

I also love Marian Keyes and am reading one of hers at the moment.

Surely a bit of chick lit is like watching your favourite soap on telly. Everything in moderation and all that.

here is an indication. my secret shameful readong is the house of night series. its about vampires and magic.

and is aimed at girls aged 13 i think

Looks like a good one for my Twilight-obsessed 12-year-old, Custardo .

MedusaHead = I totally agree. Nothing like a good dose of Sprig Muslin to cheer up a bad week.

i might be slightly twilight geeky too.

actually i bought the house of night series for my teenage daughter, who got bored after book three, but i had many hours on trains for work, and wanted an easy read. theres a new book out reeeally soon am ded excited.

So, I'm the only one still reading Bunty Annuals, then....

I have been known to read Katie Fforde when in need of a light, mindless bit of light entertainment. Can't do the celebrity mags.
Some of her books are really rubbish and they all have the same theme - girl meets boy, girl hates boy, girl meets a different boy who seems nice but turns out to be a git, girl realises first boy was great after all. Fforde just sets each story with a different background.
Highland Fling is the better of the lot with quite a sexy moment in it. I would never read them in public and always put them in a brown paper bag as I leave the library

I have a Bunty annual somewhere . And pick up other annuals when I see them cheap in charity shops .

I read Katie Fforde books too .

Chalet school, and indeed all girls school stories. And that includes girls annuals - 1950s are the best. Not a big fan of Bunty. Sorry.

Chalet School of course

think a few men would admit to reading girls chalet school too

Ooh, Medusa is it the new Marian Keyes - The Brightest Star in the Sky?

has to be Jean Auel - clan of the cave bear

oh yes, jondalaaaarrrrrrrr!

All the old favourites from childhood. Good old swallows and amazons, and all those very well behaved old fashioned pony books, ruby ferguson and the pullein thompsons. Makes me wish I lived back then when kids were innocent and you could buy a pony for a pound and still get change!

Twilight - I can't believe how I used to walk past the books and think 'teen crap' and past the movie poster and not even notice Mr Pattinson!

team (and again - how could I ever have walked past the posters??)