![]() ![]() “You do like your whores, don’t you?” she asked. Mona is clearly having sex with Malcolm for financial reasons, but she finds the idea of being his whore intriguing and titillating. ![]() The Black woman holding the flowers does not feature into their fantasy. The subject of the painting, Olympia, is a sex worker, defiantly staring at the viewer, unabashed by her profession. Mona waits for Malcolm, nude and reclining in bed. The rest of the book is set up almost in vignettes, scenes in which Mona and Malcolm play out one of his fantasies, one month at a time.Īll of Malcolm’s desires are inspired by famous paintings, and the first one he and Mona reenact is Olympia by Manet. Malcolm is handsome, dominant, and almost supernaturally appealing. In return he will pay her in art worth a million dollars. They will have an assignation one day a month over the period of one year. ![]() In true fairytale fashion, a mysterious man named Malcolm appears and offers Mona a million dollars for twelve days of sex. Unfortunately, the gallery is half a million dollars in debt. James promised her mother that she would do anything in her power to save the family art gallery, The Red. In many ways it reads like an erotic fairytale, complete with an ending that felt a little too convenient. It’s a book that pushes the envelope, and one that won’t be for all readers, but one that I found immensely enjoyable. The Red by Tiffany Reisz is an erotic journey though art history. ![]() Genre: Erotica/Erotic Romance, Romance, Science Fiction/Fantasy ![]()
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![]() ![]() The author has talent, and I will read more of her work.Ĭlick Here book Book Review Christine Amsden dystopian entertainment publishing sci-fi The Immortality Virus The Vincent Hobbes Blog Vincent Hobbes Writing Overall, The Immorality Virus is a wonderful book. There were times I felt I wanted to know the characters better, but again, nothing distracting. I felt there were a few slow moments, but nothing distracting. Dialogue is solid, and the story moves quickly. A life where collective thought has brought humanity to its end. As is typical in dystopian-and what causes me to love it-is people’s acceptance of such a bleak life. ![]() Death and mayhem exist everywhere, and people don’t seem to care. I loved the beginning, where the author set up a bleak world. ![]() The Immortality Virus was a wonderful read. Homelessness and slavery are the norm as people struggle to get by. Now, the powerful elite, The Establishment, rule the world.įood is limited. Few knew why, and the Change cast the world into despair. ![]() Four hundred years ago, humans stopped aging. It’s the future, and the world is in chaos. I had never heard of this author, nor read her work. I received an advance copy from the writer. ![]() ![]() Like me, he wore grease-stained overalls. ![]() To speed up the repair, Tad was taking the left side and I was working on the right. I liked kids, but tired kids cooped up in my office space were another matter. I wished she had family here to watch them. ![]() She had, she told me, family in Missoula who could watch her children, but nobody but her alcoholic ex-husband to watch them in Portland, so she’d brought them with her. The task was made more urgent by the fact that the owner and her three children under five were occupying the office. We needed to get her back on the road so she could make her job interview tomorrow at eight a.m. The owner had been driving from Portland to Missoula, Montana, when her car blew the radiator. It was a rush case on a couple of fronts. To do that, we had to take the whole front clip off. “ARE YOU OKAY, MERCY?” TAD ASKED ME AS HE DISCONNECTED the wiring harness from the headlight of the 2000 Jetta we were working on. ![]() ![]() ![]() She was the third child of Robert Evans (1773–1849) and Christiana Evans ( née Pearson, 1788–1836), the daughter of a local mill-owner. Mary Ann Evans was born in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England. Middlemarch was described by the novelist Virginia Woolf as "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people" and by Martin Amis and Julian Barnes as the greatest novel in the English language. Her works are known for their realism, psychological insight, sense of place and detailed depiction of the countryside. Like Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy, she emerged from provincial England most of her works are set there. She wrote seven novels: Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Romola (1862–63), Felix Holt, the Radical (1866), Middlemarch (1871–72) and Daniel Deronda (1876). Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880 alternatively Mary Anne or Marian ), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. ![]() |