Guilty Pleasures
As a voracious reader, I tend to take pride in the fact that I don't read much "fluff." I generally read a lot of contemporary novels that would be considered "literary," and I also enjoy nonfiction books on important topics like how the Internet effects us as a culture and biographies about important historical figures. However, I also have my guilty pleasures! These pleasures include, just from my reading this year:
Star Trek books written using the characters from the original series: Spock, Kirk, McCoy, etc.
Fluff biographies on pop culture celebrities I find interesting, like this:
Chick lit (often in audiobook format):
And also, magazines. Lots and lots of women's magazines, passed down to me from my mother after she reads them. I especially enjoy magazines with recipes that I can tear out, and I've also been getting obsessed with Pinterest, which seems like an infinite magazine to me. When I'm feeling weary and/or overwhelmed by the world, the mindlessness of a magazine is just the thing!
Fellow readers, what are you guilty pleasures?
Star Trek books written using the characters from the original series: Spock, Kirk, McCoy, etc.
Fluff biographies on pop culture celebrities I find interesting, like this:
Chick lit (often in audiobook format):
And also, magazines. Lots and lots of women's magazines, passed down to me from my mother after she reads them. I especially enjoy magazines with recipes that I can tear out, and I've also been getting obsessed with Pinterest, which seems like an infinite magazine to me. When I'm feeling weary and/or overwhelmed by the world, the mindlessness of a magazine is just the thing!
Fellow readers, what are you guilty pleasures?
Like you, Marci, when tired, magazines and Pinterest are just what I need!
ReplyDeleteAlso like you, my reading interests run mainly literary. Once or twice a year, though, I like to "cleanse my palate," so to speak. I find myself turning to YA literature then. My favorite example was the year that I read five memoirs with addiction and abuse themes. When winter break rolled around, I sat on the couch and binged on the Hunger Games series. Two springs ago, I was really stressed out and consumed the Divergent series as a diversion. This summer, I read Me Before You one night because I was interested to see what the author would do regarding the issue of assisted suicide. (But it was also fun to gobble down a romance for a change!)
Guilty pleasures serve purposes! I am definitely a proponent.