Stay out of the kitchen or, in this case, start a new blog.
It was May, 2012 when curiosity got the better of me and I picked up
Fifty Shades of Grey. I reviewed that book as well as its two sequels on in this blog and followed that up with
a post on the trilogy as a whole and therefore won’t be going into what I
thought about the books, the story-line, the writing or the phenomena here
again. I will admit though that reading those three books awakened in me a taste
for erotic stories that I thought I had left behind when I ended my teenage
years.
Eight months and 46 erotic books and stories later I’ve come to the
conclusion that I enjoy the genre too much to give up on it again. I have
however also discovered that it is very hard to do (some of) these works
justice in a general blog that can be read by anybody. While it is quite
possible to give short descriptions and my thoughts on these books without
using language or descriptions that might offend some people it does mean that
there are huge sections of story I can only refer to in the most general of
terms. This is not always satisfying for me and I imagine that it can also be
frustrating for those reading the reviews because they want to find out more
about the erotic content of a book – the part that I tend to describe in only
the vaguest of terms.
I’ve thought about all of this for quite a while now and have decided
that the only thing to do is start a second book blog. From this moment onward
every work of erotica will be reviewed in both blogs. While More Than a Reading Journal will
continue to describe the books and stories in the most general and “inoffensive”
of terms, If You Can’t Stand the Heat
will allow me to give more graphic details of the stories and to explore my
thoughts and feelings about those. Because I won’t be mincing my words in the
new blog I’ve added an age-barrier to it. Anybody wanting to read that blog
will have to confirm that they are over 18 years of age. While I’m aware that
this is a voluntary barrier and in no way stops anybody from reading my posts
there, it will serve as a warning for those who would rather not be confronted
with adult content.
I’m playing with the idea of doing a bit more than just book reviews in
this new blog. I think I may also indulge in posts in which I explore my likes
and dislikes in this genre and maybe even try my hand at a bit of creative
writing. I don’t know yet. In many ways a new blog is like a blank page; it can
be filled with anything and everything that springs to mind. The only thing I
know for sure right now is that I will be reviewing my kinky reads in far more
detail than I have been doing so far, everything else is “wait and see” both
for the reader and for the writer.
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