P.E.B.K.A.C.

I have found a new genre of books that I would have never thought that I would read, I am admitting a major secret here that only my husband knows about till you read these words. I am going to put the blame of this shameful secret on a friend whom I will change his name for safety reasons (Ha ha like anyone is going to hunt down the person who got me hooked on more books. ok maybe Jason would )

Years ago while I was going to school in England Kevin would send me off to the long flight with a book he read that he knew I would like or send me a care package with a book or two.  Two of these books are the first books in a series of books, one was by George R.R. Martin called A Game of Thrones and the other was Larell K. Hamilton called Guilty Pleasures.

A Game of Thrones grabbed me so tightly that I read this 704 page book, which by others have been called a door stop, in what felt like mere moments. I had a hard time putting this book down at night cause I just had to know what happened next to my favorite characters, with chapters devoted to each characters lives in different areas I would find myself trying hard to rationalize reading all the chapters between just to see if they made it out of the castle alive or what not. I was lucky that I had Kevin to send me the next book in the series. I am still on baited breath waiting for the next book.

But due to me finding myself lost in this story it helped me find other books that I would have passed by. Some by George R.R. Martin Fevre Dream & the Wild Card books, some just found me The Postman,

Guilty Pleasures showed me a world about vampires, magic detective work and assassination. Once again I found myself having a hard time putting the book down. Laurell K. Hamilton has put out 16 books to this date in the Anita Blake series. I did find that as the books went on that their was abit more of the sexual element then I would like so I stopped reading them somewhere in the single digits.

Even thou I did not stick with this series to the end, I did find other book series that pull me into a new world. Dead Until Dark, Grave Sight, Shakespear’s Landlord all first books in series by Charlaine Harris. Undead & Unwed, Sleeping with the Fishes, The Royal Treatment, Jennifer Scales & the Ancient Furnace all first books in series by MaryJanice Davidson. Moon Called first of two so far by Patrica Briggs. California Demon: The Secret Life of a Demon-Hunting Soccor Mom first in a 3 book series by Julie Kenner.

So what is my secret? I read what my husband calls Paranormal Romance. Ok ok they are paranormal and some have romance in them, but so do 90% fiction books out there & they do not call them crime romance novel or action romance novels. Grrrrrrrr. Just cause there are people in the story that date one another does not make it a Romance Novel. Anyways that’s the secret. Some may think it is nothing & others may laugh, but what they heck!

I read do you?

This entry was posted on Monday, May 26th, 2008 at 1:13 pm and is filed under One Million Monkeys. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.