Ok Readers....Confess...What is your favorite guilty pleasure reading?

[Frannie & Callie]

I love to read and I have "downstairs" books and "upstairs" books. The downstairs ones are the more serious ones, or the more contemporary novels everyone reads. Upstairs though, is a whole different story. These are the books in my "I wouldn't be caught dead reading this on an airplane" category. Topping the list for me is the Twilight Saga. I loved these books. They tapped into some small reserve of teen romance and angst that I wasn't aware that I possessed.  My embarrassment over these books has nothing to do with the books themselves. Everyone I know has read them...including my friend's 12 year old daughter and all of her friends.

 

One of my friends "confessed" to reading the Vampire Diaries books with such angst that I thought she was going to tell me she was having an affair.

 

 

[Lynda Kamrath]

Yep, start reading to Natalie. She will love it. Read anything. I had a friend who read gardening books to his son and they would go through a nursery and he would read the labels on plants and info regarding care and propogation. I will never forget the day his 1 1/2 yr. old son came over to my house and was walking through the back yard talking about my plants. "oooh, I hate gardenias, gardenias stink". And then he reached in his pocket and pulled out something and said, "But look what I found on the way over here - a magnolia seed pod". My son, the same age, was saying things like "Goggie go bye-bye." You do know, don't you, that the optimal age for language retention is 18 months. At that age, they put into their memory any words that they hear, and can repeat them. But, if they don't hear many words, they lose that capability about a year later. It's the big argument for pre-school and early education.

[Lynda Kamrath]

Sorry, it wasn't gardenias. They smell wonderful, if you get any smell at all. It was geraniums he was talking about. Confusing geraniums for gardenias! Now you know what kind of a gardener I am, or what kind of memory I have!

[Camilla and Darwin]

Twilight reader here!

[Jacquie Yorke (DRC)]

Yeah I admit it too,...I read all of the "Twilight" books....I borrowed them from my 13 year old niece (heavy sigh)....I've been an Anne Rice fan for years and every once and awhile I have to re-read "Interview With the Vampire".... so when the Twilight books became so popular I was compelled to read them....

[Nancy, Ned, Clancy, and Charlie]

My motto is you can take me anywhere as long as I have a book with me. I LOVE TO READ and anything I am reading is open to the world - even though some of the stuff is pretty poorly written. I read cereal boxes, children's menus, headlines. It is an addiction. I carry a book with me at all times. Let me put it this way - when my daughter was little, we once stopped at a restaurant unplanned. My then 6 year old daughter threw a tantrum because she didn't have anything to read - she takes after me.

[GBK]

LOL Nancy, I have always read and reread cereal boxes, started as a little kid ;) I was also the kid in the car that read every billboard we passed outloud!

[Nancy, Ned, Clancy, and Charlie]

Yup. We share that Gina.

[F, Calla & Luca]

I remember being pretty young and having measles, I think it was, and being kept in dim light and told not to read. I would find myself reading the tissue box and panicing that I'd go blind or something.

[Linda and "Toby"]

For me, it was Harry Potter! I must confess, I LOVED that series. :)

[Nancy, Ned, Clancy, and Charlie]

I love children's literature - especially their classics, and I love fantasy and fairytales. Jane, I am with you on the Harry Potter.
I enjoyed the Shopaholic series too.

[Allyson, Peri & Taquito]

Oh I am also a Harry Potter fan - own every single one...read the final one on the beach in 2 days. But I do not consider that a guilty pleasure - that is literature at its finest!!!!

[Denise & Hunter!!!]

I forgot about the Shopaholic series... that is one I keep meaning to read. I just added it to my list!