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Thursday 17 January 2013

Fifty Shades of Taste

It's unbelievable how often I hear about this book these days. "Fifty shades of Grey". It has become a sort of a reference point, you need to mention it to appear fashion-forward and well-read. I read this "novel" last summer, by accident. ("Yeah, right" you must be thinking). 

Arriving to the Zurich airport to leave for vacations I realized I had nothing to read on the plane. So I stepped into the airport bookshop to get something funny and light for the flight. The choice was no brainer - "Fifty shades of Grey" has been all over the place, so I picked it up, read a summary and a few lines from a random page. Already sitting in the plane I looked at a small print on the back of the book: "erotic novel"... I cringed.



The plot: Anastasia Steele, a virgin student, meets a young magnate of unusual sexual practices.  He is into dominance/submission, she is not, the figures. A nice script for a uncomplicated adult movie. I admit I could have lived with the plot if the text was at least a tiny bit more complex. The most frequent phrase of the book is "Oh, my...". C'mon you guys! 

One of the rare people who didn't like the book was Zoe Williams from the Guardian (Dear Zoe Williams, if we were not worlds apart we might have possibly become friends!): "It's the fastest-selling novel for adults of all time – and it's very adult in content. Why have millions of women been seduced by Fifty Shades of Grey?" (I am asking myself the same question.) "James's sex scenes are not incidental, they are the meat of the plot, the crux of the conflict, the key to at least one of and possibly both the central characters. It is a sex book. It is not a book with sex in it."

In short, I had a hard time finishing the novel and I have not a slightest interest of knowing what happens to their butt plugs in the next two parts, but if something extraordinary happens, please let me know!

Nice weekend and sweet consensual sex, everyone!

Love 

AB

Monday 14 January 2013

A better life

"You know what your problem is? Contempt before investigation. You think you're smarter than everybody else".
Celeste and Jesse Forever. 2012.

So, how is your 2013 so far? Have you made it safely through Christmas dinners ? Do you already feel guilty about broken New Year's resolutions? Have you even made New Year's resolutions? I surely did: My 2013 resolution is to make no resolutions :-). 

Anyway, lets talk movies (yes, again...). Isn't that what one is supposed to do on Christmas holidays: run on the beach purposelessly with hands thrown into the air, eat cakes without calorie count worries, drink champaign in bed and watch good movies?.. Sounds like a good life to me. (As one good friend summed it up: Very tough duty...but someone has to do it!). Do you know any better? 



"A better life" (original title "Une vie meilleure")  is a film directed by Cédric Kahn and rated "Great" in my personal movie charts. Yann (Guillaume Canet) and Nadia (Leïla Bekhti) fall in love. They   acquire a crumbling building in a Paris suburb and decide to renovate it to launch a restaurant. But things turn upside down, and get even worse when Nadia disappears without a trace in Canada leaving her son with Yann. It's a drama and it's very realistic. One of the best movies I watched these holidays. 

And another film I am looking forward to is "Celeste and Jesse forever".  It comes on DVD in the US this month and to the cinemas in Switzerland in the nearest future. I accidentally came across its' trailer and I am anticipating to see the whole story of two people who love each other but can’t figure out how to be together. Funny, sad, and realistic. 



Good week and good films, everyone!
Love,
AB