I Confess! I like Christian Grey.
I didn't wanna do it. The writing is crappy. And I don't even like the porny parts; manacles and floggers are completely "meh" in my book. But there's a stealth hook: Christian Grey, the 50 Shades man, is completely f*cked up, and he needs Anastasia Steele to heal him and teach him to love.
Why didn't someone warn me? This is just a romance novel with whips. It's the classic power struggle between the man, who has the worldly power and allure, and the woman who overcomes him with her virtue, beauty and wholeness, winning him to love and thus claiming his power as her own without losing an iota of her femininity.
And now I have to find volume two.
In other reading news, I've gotten halfway through Renaissance Florence, a book I saw on sale in the Bargello but bought used on Amazon. It's astounding for me to read non-fiction, only happens once a year and takes the whole year to finish. And while I'm scouting for Fifty Shades of Volume Two, I've got Eleanor and Park and then Paula by Isabel Allende; I heard her interviewed on the radio this morning and she talked about this book. It's about her daughter and the daughter's death and it sounded so wise. I went to the library on the way home. I go through periods of increased reading interest and then I lose interest again for a while.
Why didn't someone warn me? This is just a romance novel with whips. It's the classic power struggle between the man, who has the worldly power and allure, and the woman who overcomes him with her virtue, beauty and wholeness, winning him to love and thus claiming his power as her own without losing an iota of her femininity.
And now I have to find volume two.
In other reading news, I've gotten halfway through Renaissance Florence, a book I saw on sale in the Bargello but bought used on Amazon. It's astounding for me to read non-fiction, only happens once a year and takes the whole year to finish. And while I'm scouting for Fifty Shades of Volume Two, I've got Eleanor and Park and then Paula by Isabel Allende; I heard her interviewed on the radio this morning and she talked about this book. It's about her daughter and the daughter's death and it sounded so wise. I went to the library on the way home. I go through periods of increased reading interest and then I lose interest again for a while.