ForbiddenFiction's Forbidden Pleasures ;)
Hi, luvs! I thought I'd do a little pimping for ForbiddenFiction since I'm part of the authors' list now. Besides, I can honestly say I would anyway because I see some really cool stuff over there! ;)
Here is the link to the Story Catalog and here is the link to Coming Soon. I already see some novels or short stories that I find of interest ( Read more... )
Here is the link to the Story Catalog and here is the link to Coming Soon. I already see some novels or short stories that I find of interest ( Read more... )
Well, I've just never been able to get into really dark, kinky stuff. I need hearts-and-flowers romance, even if there's some passionate and steamy stuff going on.
My #1 genre is mystery fiction, from cozies to hardboiled private eyes and historicals. I discovered Sherlock Holmes when I was ten and never looked back! Currently, favorite authors in the genre are Robert Crais, with his P.I. novels featuring Elvis Cole and Joe Pike. A series by Charles Todd set in England just after the first World War, featuring Inspector Ian Rutledge. Two series by Rhys Bowen; one features Molly Murphy, just over from Ireland at the turn of the last century, and other is about the escapades of Lady Georgiana in 1930s London. Then assorted cozies, most of them with a paranormal touch. I will also devour just about anything by Elizabeth Peters. The Preston-Child series of thrillers featuring Special Agent Pendergast is a particular favorite.
After that, #2 would probably be romance, heavy on the Regency, although I've enjoyed ones set in almost every era including contemporaries. Romantic suspense is my favorite subgenre, and I've enjoyed a few paranormals and time travel romances. (Oddly enough, I can't stand Diana Gabaldon's Outlander, though.)
Then it's fantasy and SF, and 'literary fiction,' and whatever else catches my eye. I'm not much on LotR-type fantasy (although I do adore Guy Gavriel's Fionavar Trilogy which is very much in that style). Some favorites are Good Omens by Gaiman & Pratchett, The Magicians and Mrs. Quent by Galen Beckett, Lynn Flewelling's Nightrunner series, and Mercedes Lackey's fairy tale retellings, Reserved for the Cat & The Serpent's Shadow, or His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik. Arthurian stuff, too, The Mists of Avalon, and The Forever King are two favorites there.
Magic, mystery, (yes-romance :grin:), all set against a favorite historical background will do it for me more than Orcs and Hobbits! I got one for my birthday, The Troupe by Robert Jackson Bennett, set during the days of vaudeville, that I'm eager to get to!
I don't read as much SF as I used to, but I liked everyone from Ray Bradbury to Marion Zimmer Bradley, Heinlein and Asimov, Clarke, Leigh Bracket and Andre Norton. A more modern favorite used to be Alan Dean Foster.
My favorite book from last year was The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society. Another 'literary' favorite is Lost Horizon.
For non-fiction, it's even more all over the place. Hard science (astronomy, meteors, natural history). Medieval history, Elizabethan, some Civil War (Mosby's Rangers, Custer), the Napoleonic Wars. My favorite period is actually the Gilded Age through the Jazz Age and Prohibition, but I don't have a lot of material on hand. :( Egyptology is another favorite!
Plus a bunch of writing reference things, mostly to do with crime. D.P. Lyle's Forensics and Fiction & Murder and Mayhem are particular favorites. Lots of ghost and supernatural stuff, witchcraft. Oh, and art; I love art history, and especially the tales of thefts and forgeries. False Impressions by Thomas Hoving is a particular favorite.
Hmm. Yeah. Be careful inviting me to talk about books. I do get carried away. :)
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Well, I've just never been able to get into really dark, kinky stuff. I need hearts-and-flowers romance, even if there's some passionate and steamy stuff going on.
Yep, the site likes to push the boundaries! :) But my novel is probably more like what you described above. There's definite kink a heckuva lot of romance, too. :)
I find myself intrigued by the House Of Silence books.
I knew you would respond to this post! ;) I like your list. I could have named quite a few more, too, as I'm an avid reader. Though oddly enough I never read conventional romances like Regencies.
I love Fedora Fic! ;) Great noir makes for great books and films!
I'm glad that people are still reading though it's a shame that collecting books will become a specialized hobby in the future as everyone will be reading on electronic devices.
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