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I read 50 Shades of Grey, and the bad writing (i.e., he murmured, I muttered, she murmured, everybody muttered) continued to fly in my face, but I wanted to see what the hype was about.
I don’t like unsuspecting virgin stories anyway and Christian Grey may be hot, but he has a screw loose and needs serious counseling. If I’m going to read erotica, I want the characters to at least be experienced and know what they’re getting into.
I’m reading Free Fall: A Late-in-Life Love Affair
Its lead characters are baby boomer age and while the sex is erotic, it’s written in a very classy and warm way. The author weaves a great story that most of us can I identify with.
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Can you recommend a work of erotica for grown women?
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Thanks May & Janice for all your helpful comments. I really appreciate them.
May - for the longest time, I said to myself that I will never want any plastic surgery done and that I will accept my body for what it is. Like many typical wome
I’d like to read it, but it would depress me, being alone…..like watching these Lifetime movies with people falling/being in love, the bed scenes.
SHEER torture.
I’ll have to check it out. Not too many heroines of this age in these books–definitely need more of them!
The first thing that came to mind was how lucky she was that she still had some sort of inner sexual desire and a vagina that is not dried-up and atrophied. I don’t know how they handle natural negative situations in a baby-boomers life in the book – but, I am so envious just thinking about. Ask me what I miss most about my youth – and there it is. Please do not suggest hormones-only received negative reactions without the positive. Don’t know if I want to read it!
Alicia – this book is nothing like those Lifetime movies. Ugh I can’t stand them. There’s lots of ups and downs that may make you say, ‘wow, I remember feeling like that.” If you have a Kindle – try reading the first chapter.
Yes, Ann – we need more heroines of this age. AFter all, we have so much more experience than these young things.
Anon – You’d be surprised how your natural fluids come back when you have a sexy man and a dangerous relationship going on.
As far as hormones and atrophy – buy a couple bottles of Astro-Glide and a good vibrator. You’ll be feeling better in no time.
Note: this book is not written as an erotic, hot book. It’s a story of a woman’s journey through a certain time in her life and it happens to have erotic parts in it. There’s so much more to the story and I believe most women our age will truly relate. Rae expressed her caring side and disappointed side as well as her sexual and selfish side. Try it – you’ll see. And if you don’t like it, at least you can say you donated to a little bit to a baby boomer’s writing success.
Despite the adage that an affair rejuvenates a current marriage by “compensating” for what’s missing, there’s new research out that a marital affair does great damage, not just to the marriage but other areas of the woman’s life – especially if she has a busy career. If you want a fiction book that’s gotten a lot of buzz and is a scary account of a woman who is “intoxicated” by a very seductive man, try “Asylum” by Patrick McGrath. I’ve just started it and it is definitely mesmerizing.
Liz, I, too, read Asylum and I loved it. I think it is his best book! You’re the only other person I have heard who read it.
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Hey Liz – I’ll check out Asylum – thanks for the recommendation.
For the record, without giving away anything in ‘Free Fall’, the story has nothing to do with rejuvenating a marriage. It’s a memoir and well, you’ll just have to read it.
Thanks for suggesting this book. Looked it up on amazon and read some and reviews, it’s just been loaded onto my Kindle.
Since you asked, I would highly recommend the Sleeping Beauty Trilogy that Ann Rice wrote under her pseudonym. Sorry ladies, I do not recall what that name is/was but if you google it, I am certain you will locate it. It is much better written that 50 Shades… Hands down, NO comparison!
PS Thanks for the other suggestions… I shall locate them next!
Hi Colleen – I read the first book of Sleeping Beauty by Ann Rice and although I love a good erotic story, I couldn’t get past the cruelty. I know it’s fantasy, but I’m very sensitive about mental and physical abuse even if it’s historical fiction. Sometimes, I wish I wasn’t. :/
Thanks for the recommendation, tho.
Well, I started this conversation on 50 Shades and the other day my girlfriend and i went to see the movie “Hope Springs”, starring Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones. Great movie. If you have a guy, and you’re a boomer, go see this together. It’s so sad at what happens to long term marriages where people let the romantic love dwindle as they spend more life together. i’m a widower and I’m still in hopes that love will come into my life again. And believe me, I want plenty of romance with it too. I’m 65 and still ready, able, and willing.
I just downloaded this book on my nook, I am moving to Italy next month, any more really good books you can recommend to me? I don’t think that my nook will download in Italy, but I can read all of them!
I have been downloading all their free books
I just downloaded the sample to the kindle ap on my phone, read it and found noting at all interesting or erotic! Create your own uninhibited passionate chapters in real life! To be honest if a woman is still using “afraid to read it because I’ll get depressed”. Or ” dried up vagina?”. As excuses then I have nothing to say that can turn that mentality into a vibrant, carefree, sensual one!
Someone please tell me where I can get this book besides Kindle? I went to the library and NOTHING. Can I buy it a Barnes & Noble? Who is the author? I’ll try Amazon. I’m dying to get my hands on it.
Unique One,
You can order the paperback version of Free Fall: A Late-in-Life Love Affair by Rae Padilla Francoeur at Amazon and I’m sure if you ask your local Barnes & Noble or library, they can order it, if it’s not in stock. Good luck and I hope you enjoy it.
OK, can you stand yet another one? “Here on Earth” by Alice Hoffman is a page-turner about a middle aged wife/mother who returns to her hometown for mother’s funeral and encounters the man who was the love of her life. Very scary and so moving – your eyes will pop.