Books, Part One
Ok. Now I’ll attempt to break my blogging impasse by bringing you at least three separate entries about recently released books. Basically, I’ll go through several piles of books I have sitting around (You know how reading piles tend to accummulate!) and tell you what I’ve found noteworthy.
Today’s pile includes:
Tracy Quan’s Diary of a Married Call Girl, the sequel to her debut novel, Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl. Apparently Married picks up where Manhattan left off and I’m looking forward to seeing how protagonist Nancy Chan balances marital bliss with the demands of business between the sheets.
Carly Milne, once of Pornblography fame, gathered together the personal essays of women — women who are changing pornography — in pithy sections like porn purveyors, erotic envisioners, wanton webmistresses, and sex sellers in her anthology Naked Ambition: Women Porngraphyers and How They Are Changing the Sex Industry. Looks good.
Meanwhile, sex educator Midori presents her writing in a new collection from Daedalus Publishing. Entitled Wild Side Sex: The Book of Kink, it presents “educational, sensual, and entertaining essays. Midori fans, you may lust now!
The last book on this pile might prove to be the most difficult to locate. But hey — if Amazon has it, it can’t be that esoteric. It’s a lesbian novel of lost love and lust explored entitled 121 Days of Urban Sodom. By Jacqueline Phillips, its premise is smart and articulate, and its concept was original enough to attracts my eye.
Next up: Muslim and South Asian offerings.
