Showing posts with label Leigh Caron humorous women's fiction writer Fifty Shades of Grey E L James. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Leigh Caron humorous women's fiction writer Fifty Shades of Grey E L James. Show all posts

Friday, June 22, 2012

TIES THAT SHOULDN'T BIND

Having an erotic moment…
With your grown daughter…
Is NOT appropriate…
But unfortunately it happened…
When my daughter and I discussed…
Fifty Shades of Grey
She and I are both reading it now.
“So? What did you think when they first got together?”
And that room?”
“Um, well…hmm, uh yeah…let’s not go there.”
Unfortunately, both our minds went there…
Conjuring that scene in our heads.
Talk about an awkward moment…
Some topics are better off not being shared...
Between mother and daughter.
(at least for me)
But this thought I will share—with you…
I’m losing enthusiasm for Fifty Shades of Gey
I expected more…
Like depth in character in Anastasia…
The main female character….
Her range of emotions can be summed up like this:
OMG! Eeee!
OMG! Squeeee!
OMG! Weeeeee!
OMG! OW! Eeeeeeee!!!!
Will I finish the book? Yeah…
But it’s taken its rightful place…
Where I keep my stash of quick reads…
In the loo.
So?
Do you stick with books…
Even though they disappoint?
And do you have loo reads?

Always, Em-Musing


Monday, June 11, 2012

PIQUED AND PICKED

And so it happened…
With a five hour layover in a lousy airport...
I bought into the hype…
Fifteen dollars and change worth of hype…
Couldn’t help it…
My curiosity got the better of me.
After hours of sitting and reading…
All my back issues of Writer’s Digest and RWA..
I had to get up and move.
And so I strolled…
Looking for a bar…
(of the protein kind)
And a new mag…
(of the architectural kind)
And there it wasa book...
Of the Fifty Shades of Grey kind...
So I picked it up.
What was I looking for?
The sex?
Oh yeah!
But also the first page…
Did it grab me? Engage me? Beg me to read more?
It did.
Is the writing exceptional?
I will make no judgments against another author…
Especially one that’s published. And successful.
But this I will say—I’m still reading it...
Because I like the story…
And I like reading about the kind of sex I don't have...
(nor want to).
But tell me. Does wanting a cheap thrill from a book…
Makes me a hussy of a reader?
And tell me…
Have you read it? If not, will you?
Or?
Are there books that give you a cheap thrill?

Always, Em-Musing