Cannonball Read 18

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The 120 Days of Sodom, or The School of Libertinage by Marquise de Sade

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So, I wrote this upon finishing this book: “Ummmm. Give me a while to pull some thoughts together.” That was mid-October. I don’t think I’ve managed to pull those thoughts together. I don’t think I ever will. I mean, I read some reviews going in to this book, but even the ones that were explicit about the contents didn’t prepare me. I picked this book up because of the Read Harder Challenge. One of the challenges was to read a book that was written in […]

Boundary-crossing erotica that’s Courtney Milan approved

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It’s been a minute since I’ve written a review, and I feel like I’ve forgotten how to do it. Let’s pretend I was never gone and this is actually going to be competent, shall we? So I said right in the title of this review that this is Courtney Milan approved erotica, which is a kind of flippant way of saying she gave it a 5/5 star rating with about a billion caveats. Specifically, I’m referring to this review of The Siren, the first book […]

It’s a Tide ad.

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A new year, a new Tingler.  (NSFW OBVS) What in seven hells possessed me to start this tradition?  But in fairness, how could I possibly resist THIS: So our story begins with Greg Henderson speeding down a desert highway, cool wind in his hair, warm smell of colitas, rising up through the air. (I assume this applies to desert highways in Arizona as well as California).  As Greg hustles to get to a big car show, he makes sure to let the reader know that […]

Good in little bites

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Charlotte Stein is a must read for me. So I grabbed this when Kindle told me it was available (all hail my amazonian overlords). Stein’s books are not kissing books, they are fucking books. So there is the usual dance of making sure no one is likely to be reading over my shoulder on my commute train because I like to think my porn is at least mostly private. Her short story collections, of which this is one, are really short tone poems. Like kink […]

Mega Review!! Three pieces of crap, one unremarkable episode, and a nugget of purest green!

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Now, I know what you’re thinking “Fyre, you know you HATE billionaire romances!” I know! So over done! But I love me some menage so I was willing to wade into these treacherous waters for a bargain price. I present my real time notes from this collection. This is a long review but, I hope, worth your while. Drilled by Opal Carew Already stilted dialog. I’ll come along. Gah. Show don’t tell. Stop using the word glided for everything. It’s a horrible word, it sounds […]

Oh, why did I choose to read porn again?

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Now this is kind of awkward, mostly because I am not sure exactly how one is supposed to go around reviewing porn, but I guess that is what I get for reading porn in the first place, right? So this book is the third in a series, but they all can be read as stand alone novels, as well. It is about this rather uninhibited fashion designer who moves back to SF so her father can finance her boutique after she fails to make it by […]



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