Since I’m too lazy to come up with an original topic, I thought I’d follow on from the excellent discussion at Smart Bitches, Guilty Pleasures and Confessions, in which Sarah revealed her secret passion for J. R. Ward’s Brotherhood of the Black Dagger series.
Uh, me too. I don’t know why, but her books are right up there with the Chronicles of Narnia (except for The Last Battle) when I need a comfort read.
So I thought I’d ask everyone what your guilty secrets are. Here are some of mine:
Thomas Hampson (He’s handsome! Straight! Smart! Sings!)
Eating while taking a bath
Just about anything with a big topping of whipped cream
Most Haunted, a truly awful tv show with English people with bad hair screaming while investigating haunted houses
Eating in bed and then scraping the crumbs off to the other side and denying that any food consumption has taken place
People magazine. Read at checkout in the stores and at my dentist’s (who always has current issues; I must be one of the few people who enjoys going to the dentist)
How about you? Come on, confess… You’ll feel better for it.
Janet,
I, too, love J. R. Ward’s work. She creates such a wonderful world.
My true guilty pleasure is reading. I consume books like a drug. If I haven’t read something the day is a total loss. I read on the average a book a day and love it.
Thomas Hampson could never be a guilty pleasure — I’d shout that out loud and proud. My own guilty pleasure is the number of books I buy. Admittedly most are purchased at the UBS or the library’s used book sale, but I still manage to bring home 3 books for every book I donate. Note to authors: not to worry, I buy new books new (at least in trade or PB), but there is an astonishing number of OOP titles I want to read for which the UBS is often the only source. I literally have boxes of books to the ceiling.
Reading in the tub.
“Window-shopping” at Target.
Sneaking to the Riskies blog while at work…
I love J.R. Ward.
I love Tara Janzen.
I love reading celeb gossip once in awhile.
I like stumbling upon cheesy reality shows and watching, even though I have no clue about the participants.
I love pulp covers.
And super-clinch covers–so embarrassing! So unexpected!
I like bad soft-core porn movies. Because those moustaches!
Okay, I am definitely a guilty reader and book buyer. There are books everywhere in this house! I read about a book a day too Rugosa. So glad I am not the only one. I am cracking up at megan’s soft porn and moustaches!! Love it!! Oh and I adore, but blush to say I read a series of books by Dean James about a gay Mississipi born vampire who moves to a lovely English village and solves crimes. They are just silly little cozy mysteries, but I cannot resist them. If you want just a pure fluff, fun read try Baked to Death, Posted to Death, Decorated to Death, etc.
Do you mean other than my Gerard Butler obsession, my tendency to watch Clean House (as opposed to CLEANING house)and eating a bag of Skittles for lunch??
Hmm. I’m not sure what to confess–the whole concept seems to require me to have some vague shreds of shame…
Rugosa, I’m with you on the reading, except that I feel guilty for all the books that I haven’t read! I only wish I had the time to read a book a day…then they wouldn’t all be sitting there, staring at me accusingly.
So, guilty? Yes. Pleasure? Not so much.
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My guilty pleasures include Michael Buble, a plate of mashed potatoes and any book by Meg Cabot. Also watching Dancing with the Stars. Although I have Most Haunted on my DVR and have yet to watch. And reading in a bathtub full of bubbles.
Browsing Zappos and Blue Fly.
Eating a whole bag of crunchy Cheetos in a sitting.
I am so ashamed!
Oh, Elizabeth,
Keira, Amanda and I correspond weekly about Dancing With The Stars!
“I read a series of books by Dean James about a gay Mississipi born vampire who moves to a lovely English village and solves crimes.”
OMG, that sounds totally hilarious! I must look for them. 🙂
Dancing With the Stars, of course. Go Fug Yourself. Books with covers featuring guys in kilts and no shirt. Kit Kat bars (very bad with leftover Halloween candy).
Well, mine is that I go have a couple of Britney Spears mp3s on my computer. (early ones for crying out loud, nothing recent!!! LOL)
Ah, well, I don’t think I feel better after admitting that, but hey. 🙂
Lois
Amanda, you will love them. They are just the thing when you want to be simply entertained. Why is it that reading is considered such a guilty pleasure these days?
For the most part, I shun the term “guilty pleasure,” because why should we feel guilty about pleasure? If romance novels or Proust or American Idol or Barry Manilow or opera give us pleasure, there’s nothing to be ashamed of, IMHO… 🙂
However, I have now realized that I would consider some foods “guilty pleasures,” because they actually can be bad for us…or at least bad in that they’re not good for us. (I think a lot of it depends who you ask. Some folks think potatoes are spawn of the devil…others think them wonderfully nutritious…)
So here are some of my guilty pleasures, or some of my pleasures which I swear I don’t feel guilty about, not at all, not one tiny bit:
Taco Bell’s jalapeno sauce
KFC’s mashed potatoes and gravy
Sainsbury’s tinned Korma
those little mini chocolate donuts that come prepackaged
Britney Spears dance tracks (yay Lois!) and
Backstreet Boys uptempo numbers
talking to my stuffed animals
having them answer back and demand more tea and television
Cara (who thinks sanity should be saved up for a rainy day, and happens to live in an area of drought)
Cara wrote:
talking to my stuffed animals
having them answer back and demand more tea and television
You know we’d never keep up with our shows if the stuffed animals didn’t keep nagging us!
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