BTT: Trashy Paperbacks

Booking Through Thursdays asked:


Do you ever crave reading crappy books?



I am going to interpret this to mean “trashy” books. I don’t read books that are “crappy”. What would be the point?!? I do love my light and easy to consume trashy paperbacks however! The type of books that aren’t trying to pretend they hold the answer to the universe or win the Man Booker. Books that just want to have fun! I have been reading more and more of them in the last few years because my full time job is sucking the life and brain power out of me (it has help, but the way it is running me ragged means I am placing the blame on it’s shoulders!) and I just don’t feel like reading big serious tomes in my free time. This means I have been reading more and more paranormal romance, urban fantasy and suspense, less literature, less mysteries, less epic fantasy and less science fiction. I love being challenged, but when your brain is leaking out your ears you just want a light escape. And so I open a trashy paperback and escape for an hour or two. I still read my other genres, I still love them, still worship at the altar, I just can’t stomach them at the moment. It is like being full to bursting from eating a large salad and then seeing a table full of every single sweet and sinful dessert you have ever had, and you are salivating, getting high on the scent of chocolate and sugar, but you hold your belly and look at it mournfully, cursing fate because you just filled up on rabbit food. You love salads but you wanted those chocolates too… This is me. I love reading trashy paperbacks. I do not deny it. I think it would be kind of pretentious to do so. So yes, my name is Jacq and I read trashy paperbacks!

Teaser Tuesday: War of the Worlds by H.G Wells

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
* Grab your current read
* Open to a random page
* Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
* BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
* Share the title and author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

My Teasers: 

I was at home at that hour and wring in my study; and although my French windows face towards Ottershaw and the blind was up (for I loved in those days to look up at the night sky), I saw nothing of it. Yet this strangest of all things that ever came to earth from outer space must have fallen while I was sitting there, visible to me had I only looked up as it passed.
Page 6 of War of the Worlds by H.G Wells

Teaser Tuesday: Reaper by Rachel Vincent

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
* Grab your current read
* Open to a random page
* Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
* BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
* Share the title and author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

My Teasers: 


I had died, and the world keeps spinning, without even a wobble in its rotation to mark the occasion. I’d known life would go on without me, but seeing that was different than knowing it, and feeling it was worse than all.
Page 36(?) of Reaper by Rachel Vincent

Manic Monday: Spider's Bite by Jennifer Estep

Each Monday (or the closest I can get to Monday) I will be posting a Past/Present/Future Reading Post called Manic Monday. Don't hate me if I post it on a Tuesday - it just indicates how "manic" my Monday really was! If you want to see more of what I have been reading, I try and update my Goodreads account with each book I am reading.

What I just finished reading

Spider Bite by Jennifer Estep
Stars: 4/5

Blurb from Goodreads:
My name is Gin, and I kill people.

They call me the Spider. I'm the most feared assassin in the South — when I'm not busy at the Pork Pit cooking up the best barbecue in Ashland. As a Stone elemental, I can hear everything from the whispers of the gravel beneath my feet to the vibrations of the soaring Appalachian Mountains above me. My Ice magic also comes in handy for making the occasional knife. But I don't use my powers on the job unless I absolutely have to. Call it professional pride.

Now that a ruthless Air elemental has double-crossed me and killed my handler, I'm out for revenge. And I'll exterminate anyone who gets in my way — good or bad. I may look hot, but I'm still one of the bad guys. Which is why I'm in trouble, since irresistibly rugged Detective Donovan Caine has agreed to help me. The last thing this coldhearted killer needs when I'm battling a magic more powerful than my own is a sexy distraction...especially when Donovan wants me dead just as much as the enemy.

Why I picked it up: Sofia from Galaxy kept telling us it was awesome at book club. She rarely steers me wrong and it sounded interesting.
Why I finished it: It was a good solid urban fantasy. I liked the plot, I liked the suspense and the action, the main characters had just the right amount of chemistry, and I loved the main character. I also want to know more about the goth dwarf!
I'd give it to: People who love Devon Monk, Ilona Andrews, Patricia Briggs and Lillith Saintcrow.

What I am reading now

What I am I not reading? I can't seem to make up my mind! I have been skipping from book to book this month, because I banned books in November. I can't settle on anything.

What I am reading next

I realised that my New Years Resolution was to read Wuthering Heights, but I got stuck half way through again. I guess I should do something about that! I also want to finish my Global Challenge. I am not sure what I have actually read though, so it may be bust... I have Oceania, Europe, and North America in the bag, so I need one more South American book, one more Asian book and two African books. I still don't know what African books to read :-/ Oh, Asia is finished if Lebanon is counted as Asia? The Middle East is technically counted as the western part of the Asian continent isn't it? So 2 African books and one South American book? ;-/ Do you have any suggestions? I mostly read speculative fiction... I hate dramas and biographies...