MLA Conference 2008

Happy Hour Question of the Night List:

RART Happy Hour/Business Meeting
Chili’s, Bloomington, MN
Wednesday, November 19, 2009


Guilty Pleasures – Fiction, Films, Music and Periodicals

Books that defy categorization
The Story of O by Pauline Reage

British Women’s Fiction
Penny Vincenzi
Marcia Willett

Children’s books
Fancy Nancy
Harry Potter
Comics
Garfield
Calvin & Hobbs
Pearls Before Swine

Magazines
Hello
Us

Movies/TV Bones (tv)
Cold Comfort Farm
Dear Frankie
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Nanny McPhee
300
WALL-E

Music Ricky Martin
Show tunes
Guys & Dolls
Singin’ in the Rain

Mysteries
Lee Child, “Every man wants to be Jack Reacher, and every woman wants to be Reached.”
Janet Evanovich
Robert Parker, Spencer series, “They’re all the same but I love them all.”


Nonfiction
Biographies of dead royalty
Diet & exercise books that you read but never actually follow
Guy Fieri, Diner’s Drive-ins and Dives: An All-American Road Trip…with Recipes!
Home decorating books
Knitting books
Pet schmaltz, aka “Sentimental Pet Stories”
Marley & Me

Romances
Elizabeth Hoyt, “You haven’t read Elizabeth Hoyt?!?!?”
Georgians
Eloisa James
Regencies
Georgette Heyer

Vampire Fiction (aka “Fang Bangers”)
Charlaine Harris

Happy Hour Pics