The Pink Shoe Diaries

i have a confession to make.

in my youth, and in fact somewhat nowadays, i am a sucker for V.C. Andrews novels.

if you have never read any of these, i pity you and respect you all at once. they are pretty trashy..and usually involve some completely out of this world craziness such as

* a woman not being able to get her inheritance if she ever has children (because her husband is her second cousin) so when her father falls in, she moves in with him but hides all 4 of her children in the attic for 5 years so he wont know the exist

* a young woman, concieved in rape, finding out that the love of her life is her half brother AND that she has a secret twin sister

* another young woman, who has nightmares about her older, dead sister who she never met but is names after, finds out she IS the older supposedly dead sister...but after a brutal attack her parents used psychiatry to make her think that what happened to her actually happened to a sister who died.

riiight.

it is very gripping though, and i hate to say it but at times it is also well written. it's sort of like book versions of soap opera. and she has written TONS of books. i would say at least 50.

i know it is trash. i do not care. i love it.

ask Kristen: i even brought one of her books with me to Kenya and i disitnctly remember me and John L. reading aloud bits of it to other people on the trip.

so why all the VC-mania all of a sudden? well, i recently discovered a used book store near my work that has an entire SECTION dedicated to VC Andrews (this is not your usual run of the mill used book store..it also has an entire wall dedicated to Harlequin Romance novels). but regardless, i gasped out loud when i saw the VC wall...

i left with a fairly new copy of My Sweet Audrina, and a promise to the lady who owns the place that i would be back soon.

i am not proud. but i am psyched.