spinoff 3: Books you "shouldn't" love, but just do

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The true blood series by charlaine Harris.

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The Twilight series. I even read the online draft that was leaked for Midnight Sun.

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The Royal We

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Anonymous wrote:Sarah J Mass’s books. I know they are faerie smut but I still love them.

Haha, me too! I don't think I've admitted reading (and loving them) to any of my friends.

Me, three! Her latest book just came out and I can’t wait to start it. Love me some Hunt Athalar. But also, I’ve sobbed during some of her books. Shes got a knack for making you love her characters. Manon’s Thirteen…OMG…right in the gut…huge sobs.

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Anonymous wrote:The Twilight series. I even read the online draft that was leaked for Midnight Sun.

Midnight Sun was better than Twilight!

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Anything VC Andrews.

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All of the John Sandford Lucas Davenport "Prey" books and Virgil Flowers books.

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Anonymous wrote:The true blood series by charlaine Harris.

Huge fan

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sarah J Mass’s books. I know they are faerie smut but I still love them.

Haha, me too! I don't think I've admitted reading (and loving them) to any of my friends.

Me, three! Her latest book just came out and I can’t wait to start it. Love me some Hunt Athalar. But also, I’ve sobbed during some of her books. Shes got a knack for making you love her characters. Manon’s Thirteen…OMG…right in the gut…huge sobs.

Yessss.... I read much of the last TOG on a plane and was silently weeping.

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Anything CJ Box. The writing itself is so basic but the plots are entertaining and I love the sense of place he evokes. I've never been to WY and he does a good job of transporting the reader there.

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Anonymous wrote:I read a lot and real widely across genres, but...I love some cheesy, bad light romance a la Nora Roberts, Jenny Colgan, and Debbie Macomber. I feel like I need to hide those on my Goodreads so that I don't lose my cred as a "real reader," but I list them and my 2 star ratings of the actual books. They're almost uniformly terribly, yet like an addict, I keep going back for more because every once in awhile there's a good one.

Uh, Jenny Colgan is the shit!

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Ruby Dixon and cheesy historical romance.

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Anonymous wrote:I adore Laura Ingalls Wilder. I don’t want to read any of those books to my mixed race kids

Honestly they would probably be bored And I don't understand the hate Laura Ingalls
L I’ll gets. Yes her mom didn't like Native Americans but, Laura and her pa didn't have a problem and as I vaguely remember Ma had some bad experiences with Native Americans that made her that way. Not defending her but, it wasn't just I hate them because they are different.

I posted this — and yeah probably the kids won’t be interested anyway but I have reread the Little House Series and while the portrayal of Native Americans isn’t good (Pa likes them but they’re still presented as very exocitized and the books are very pro westward expansion) there’s also a lot of casual more subtle racism that pops up with things like the minstrel show that I’d be a bit uncomfortable reading aloud. (“Darkie” isn’t the n word but it sure is close.) LIW definitely isn’t the worst of her era by a long shot but I do think her books require a bit of caveating. As in this thread title, I do love them!

Our kids were fascinated by them. We used them to explain differences in schooling, differences in towns versus cities, life without electricity, chores. The kids were so curious about drying and hanging meats. Getting fresh milk. Family dynamics. Even the bowl of the water instead of a sink to wash dishes led to good chats. And we discussed the racial issues and the land issues associated with going west.

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I'm a sucker for "beach reads." John Grisham, Dan Brown, Janet Evanovich, etc. Sure, they're not brilliant literature, but they're fun to read to pass the time on a flight or a day at the pool.

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Anonymous wrote:All of the John Sandford Lucas Davenport "Prey" books and Virgil Flowers books.

I love these!