They say Karl Marx is buried there. But I suspect it’s just a communist plot.

Anyanka

OK I have started Bring Up The Bodies. Third-person present-tense annoys me enough. But third-person present-tense where the character then refers to themselves in third person is just too much. I’m only thirty pages in and this is going to be like pulling teeth.

I’ve got a brilliant use for old Gregory and Weir books. Unfortunately regular toilet paper works out cheaper.

I know this is lowering the tone of this thread so I apologise in advance, but has anyone read ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’? It’s got so much hype that I wonder if it’s actually any good or just p*rn. If I do read it I’ll probably do so at night, alone and under a blanket just in case someone sees me!!

There lies my problem, Bella. My idea of well written erotica is Jane Austin. I was brought up thinking making passionate love was holding hands in the back of a barouche, which makes me think ‘Fifthy Shades of Grey’ may not be for me!

This is how clueless I was at fist, I saw a dispay for 50 shades of Grey and I thought it was a new book from a mystery writer. But then it was all over my Facebook feeds and I began to wonder why these people were desperate to get there hands on the new book from this author. So I hopped on Wikipedia to find out what made this book more special that his previosu books. As soon as I read that it wasn’t that author, I became a little more curious but all curiosity went out the window when I discovered it started life as a fanfic to Twilight. And I imagine that’s a lot of the reason for its success, the brain dead masses of twilight thinking it is a new Twilight book. And as someone else has said why do books now have to be a series, why can’t they just be one offs. A books these days seriously just written to be movie franchises?

Any way before I get off topic, i haven’t sat down and read a book for a week. You’d think being on holidays I would have plenty of time reading. Also shows you how engrossed I am in The Expected One.

Fifty Shades of Grey is actually BDSM, not straight erotica. Generally those books have far less about actual relationships and more of what I won’t mention here in public.
My friend has a second-hand bookshop and every time someone comes in asking for that book she points at her BDSM range “You want BDSM???”
If you want to try a romance Louise I suggest you look at regencies or any other historical type going by what you usually like. I have a few friends who read tonnes of romance books so I have read a couple they recommended, two authors to be exact. Katie McAlister’s Ashling Grey series and the spin-offs, a hysterically funny series about a Keeper to the gates of the underworld and Meljean Brook’s steampunk series, and I adored them. I do prefer fantasy based genres obviously but romance has the advantage of the most ridiculous amount of sub-genres you can find. The historical sub-genres range from medieval up to victorian so there’s plenty there.

OK I am roughly half-way through Bring Up The Bodies. It is painful. I am going to get my feather duster and tickle you all until you cry, because I am quite sure several of you recommended Hilary Mantel to me. I’m starting to wonder if this book was supposed to be a comedy.

Of course you did! But it still far worse than I expected.
I’m a bit baffled though, did Cromwell vow to get his revenge for Wolsey in Wolf Hall? I didn’t read the first book and it just popped up out of nowhere in this one.

Kinky sex, without going into too much detail I don’t stock any of those book myself, but I occasionally do a shift at her shop for her, and I always get grossed out when the old men come in and look at them. Especially when they need to discuss which ones they may have read or if there is more of a particular author.

Ok the thing in this book it just seemed a little random, I suppose you probably need to have read the first one. I have a copy here too, but I got your word on the sequel before I got to read it and decided to skip it LOL. I do like reading a book that’s going to annoy me, keeps my book reviews on my blog varied at least. As I like probably 90% of the book I read.