Favourite Beach Reads and the PB's Love of Vampire Novels

The Poolboy has a thing for vampires.

It started in childhood with televison series like Dark Shadows, and Night Stalker where the Poolboy's early hero, Carl Kolchak, would fight off a variety of otherworldly beasts and beings.



He loved the series so much that in the late 80's when it was re-released on VHS, he bought the entire thing.

Around the same time he met me.

Girls, you know how it is.

You meet a cute guy, really like him, and suddenly find yourself watching the hockey playoffs, going to movies starring Sly Stallone, Clint, and Arnold, and watching marathon sessions of The Night Stalker with unbridaled enthusiasm.

Of course all that changes after marriage.

The Poolboy still looks at me with confusion when I lament the sports channel.

"But I thought you liked hockey..."

Ah the poor, poor man.

As an aside, he's currently reading this over my shoulder and wants you to know that if there was no Night Stalker with Darren McGavin there would never have been an X Files. It was Chris Carter's love of the show that helped him come up with Mulder and Sculley.

Thankyou Poolboy, now off you go. I have a blog to write.

Lucky man, being immortalized this way.

Anyways, the man loves his vamps, with his favourite of all being:

Kate Beckinsale.



If it wasn't for the bathing suit incident where I got trapped in a black speedo body suit looking like a giant bowling ball with legs, I'd wear a rubber suit too.

And pack weapons.



The latest, though, is that the Poolboy has taken to, not only reading his romantic suspense novels, he's now found a new genre: Romantic Fantasy.

But before you start suggesting he pick up the Twilight series, save your breath, because apparently Twilight is strictly for women.

As opposed to the book I just nabbed from his nightstand: A Rush of Wings, a story with a little more bite, if you'll pardon the pun:

"This book has it all... vampires and fallen angels and a slicing, dicing serial killer... it alternates romantic homages to gothdom and steamy blood drinking threesomes with enough terse, fast paced thriller scenes to satisfy even the most jaded fans."

Oh well, whatever floats ones boat.

Right?

Right.

Meanwhile, I've got a great stack of beach reads on the go.

Do any of you read Jennifer Weiner - and if not, why? People, she's FABULOUS!

Right now I'm at the tale end of her novel Little Earthquakes and loving it as much as I've loved some of the previous things she's written like In her Shoes and Good in Bed.

Next in my stack is Shopoholic gets Married by Sophie Kinsella, and then I'll round out my summer with a Nora Roberts trilogy about witches.

The PB may like his vampires, but I like my witches!

Books like Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman, and my favourite trilogy of all time - The Three Sisters Islands books, again, by Nora Roberts.

To check any of them out, I installed a new widget on my right hand side bar called "Favourite Beach Reads."

Now, tell me...

What are you reading? What inds of books do you like to read? And do you have anything to recommend?

Why?

Because, as always, enquiring minds want to know!