Whoops.....

I'll admit it...  I love to read books.  My Kindle Fire and the local public library are my places for entertainment these days.  In fact, I visit Amazon.com for research into the next book I manage to read.  Luckily, a good number of books I get from there are under $3, but I also happen to look to see if the more expensive books are available at the library (gotta just love the on-line availability to look up and reserve available books at the library -- saves me time searching).

Apparently, my insatiable need to read more has not slowed down over this past year.....  Yep, it has been a year that I started this reading jag of sorts.  I lost count after 200 books and I have even accidentally rechecked out books that I have read from the library.  Luckily, I have started writing reviews of books that I have read on Amazon, just to keep track, that is.  I happen to have quite a few books that I have reread because I enjoyed them so much.

What concerns me is the recent incident that I purchased a book (for $1.99), was not exactly my cup o' tea. I happen to enjoy contemporary fiction, chick-lit, and even in some cases... romance novels.  With the notion that people read what they lack coming to mind... it is obvious that I lack a serious case of what others would call "the warm fuzzies".  Nope, not a lot of that warm, fuzzy, and even sometimes dramatic filled sappy crap that I thought I could live without through literature happening in my life.  Honestly, I am okay that I am not looked upon lovingly or have a person feel that they have the strong need to protect me from the dangers out there.  It was something I never really felt was important to me, but would like to have happen to me from time to time.  So with my choice to marry a man that made me laugh and has a serious lack of the romance gene....  it is really nobody else's fault but my own that I have what I happen to have.  While deep down inside, I wished that love actually grew with the person you are with... I now know better.

Well, this recent purchase of this book gave me the notion that it was something I would enjoy (a romantic book of sorts with an athlete/sport backdrop like football, hockey, or baseball)....  I was painfully far from that assumption.  Was this book a contemporary work of fiction?  Not really.  Was it a romance novel?  Kind of, if you can look at it with your head tilted and you squint your eyes.  Was it in the genre of Chick-lit?  Heck no.  Nope, my insatiable need to read something ended up in a purchase of a book in a different, albeit uncomfortable genre of.....  erotica.

Holy Sh-nikes Batman!!!  Pretty brutal language printed on those pages!!  This book lacked the drama of 50 Shades of Grey, but was spot on with the make-a-woman blush and feel the need to read this in a closet use of words that I needed a cold shower after reading it.  What I did manage to find worthy of a story line was painfully weak, but it got very high ratings on Amazon.com.  I apparently forgot to look at the book information that tells you the genre of which this book fits into and the forewarned mention to having very strong language.  Little did I know that erotica books can slip into the genre of romance in the eyes of such a large company like Amazon.  Heck, the publishers of the book made this story seem more light and airy than what it really was.  That has to be the reason it slipped into a genre that it obviously was not as an option to read.  I now know better, but whew!  That was a little unsettling for me to read.  Kudos to those that loved this book.  I can only gather that they have a stronger need than I do for stuff like that.  I never thought I could feel that uncomfortable reading a book, but now I know.

I have made myself a promise that I will be more thorough in selecting any future books.  I have one book a client of mine brought for me to read.  It is not in the genres I lean towards, but his reasoning is to try to help me shy away from getting burnt out in the current genre that I have been in.  He sells books for a living and highly recommends it, but I am not sure I can fully grasp some kind-of psychedelic adaptation of people vanishing into thin air, but I guess I will try to take the time to read it soon.  I have a new book waiting for me at the library that I have been wanting to read and another book that I downloaded that is from a new author that I thoroughly researched before considering.  Yep, my simple habit of grabbing a book to read.... any book.... is now requiring a thorough research of writing style, genre, and use of language.  That last book was definitely an eye opener for me.

Well, off to get some laundry done, and do a little housework while reading a few chapters of a new book for me to read.  I hope you all have a wonderful day and thanks for reading....