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Tuesday, May 22, 2012

50 Shades: Violation on a WHOLE other level...

Just a warning....this may be a tad inappropriate....just a tad....maybe.


I was never much into reading as a kid. Not until I got married, quit my job, and had a kid did I truly appreciate that there was a way to sit down and be taken into a whole other world. Calgon, take me away! I had a period of time that I read ALL of Tess Gerritsen's books. I couldn't put them down! Then I got busy or something....not quite sure why I didn't read for a while.  But then while at a birthday party, I heard about this book. A booked that was being called, "Mommy Porn" by it's readers and the media. Huh? No way....seriously people, you need to broaden you horizons when it comes to the bedroom apparently because I'm pretty sure that nothing sold at Barnes & Noble could be so intense. Now, for those of you who have read a few of my blogs, you know that I will admit when I am wrong.  Here I go again....I was wrong.

This all started when I went to a friend's surprise party... as the men were playing a game of washers in the yard, the hens were perched on the deck talking about recent events...being pregnant, getting pooped on, planning birthday's...you know, the normal crap mommies talk about. Then we got on the subject of books and I have heard a few things about this book, "50 Shades of Grey" but didn't research it or anything. Just heard it was sexual...whatever. Well, one of the ladies let us know that this book has added fuel to her fire.  She said that she read about things that she didn't have a clue existed...and then a couple of the other hens opened up and said that they had heard about it...that it had reignited their sexual relationships with their husbands, or gave some women the courage to "try new things".  So this peaked my interest.  Could there be a book out there that really got a woman's blood REALLY pumping? I doubt it...IT'S A BOOK! And I was pretty sure there were no illustrations involved so could this author paint a good enough picture to get someone's lady parts beeping? Doubtful....especially since I had heard that this was poorly written . So I figured I had nothing to lose...my husband was going out of town for 3 days so I was pretty sure that IF this book did what most said it did, I would be safe in the comfort of a cold shower and not at the mercy of a neglected husband...so I went with a girlfriend to Barnes & Noble after I dropped my daughter off at school...if you thought that I was going to walk into a bookstore asking where the "Mommy Porn" was by myself, you are sadly mistaken... we looked, and looked, and looked for that friggin' book.  Is it in Women's Studies? No.... What about Instructional?  No....  School Summer Reading? God, I hope not....  We finally find where it is supposed to be but it appears that they are out of them. So I go up to the front to pay for my Dr. Seuss book...okay, now this is just wrong..Dr. Seuss and Mommy Porn...I ask the cashier if they are out of that book and she says, "Oh no...we keep them behind the counter..." WHAT?!?!?!  Oh Lord....maybe I should just tell her to forget about it but I did bring my friend here for support. Too late to turn back now...

So that evening I start reading this book....no sex yet.  It was little slow to start but I'm glad, because if that author would of just gotten to the meat and potatoes right away, I would of burned the damn thing. She knew what she was doing when she wrote this book. She got me intrigued by the main characters and the mystery the Mr. Grey. Then it started getting hot, and then is simmered, then it started boiling....OH SHIT! IT'S BOILING OVER! What in the......okay, enough for one night...I'm going to bed....okay, one more chapter....After approximately 36 hours of having this book in my possession,  I finished it. And let me tell you....if Anastasia wasn't sore from what she personally endured, I was sore for her....just reading this made me tired. Once I closed the book, I have to tell you something. I have NEVER felt so violated in my ENTIRE life. It was like, if I knew of this Mr. Grey and ran into him at Panera, I'm pretty sure I would run out the door screaming let alone look this delicious freak in the eyes! As soon as my hubs got home from his fishing trip, I told him that I read this book and a little bit about it. He was shocked. All the sudden I felt like I was a teenager and caught in something that I shouldn't of done and said, "The only reason I did it was because everyone else was doing it!" That's right...I succumbed to peer pressure....I read a book.

Not only did I admit to my husband that I read this crazy "book", I told my friends....I warned them...I explained that I really want to read the next book in the series but I'm afraid that the next one will have the same outrageous amount of sexual content, and I can't handle it.  I feel dirty already and I'm pretty sure I will have to sit on ice for a week before even attempting to read the second one. I wonder how many crazy women Barnes & Noble have coming in at opening with two cigarettes hanging out of their mouth, and a fresh scotch on the rocks.  So, in conclusion I believe that I will write the author and tell her that she should include a supply list with the purchase of this book and it should include, but not limited to:

Ambien (because obviously when it's time for bed, you can't put the damn book down!)

Cigarettes
Ice
Batteries
Scotch (or any hard liquor of your choice)
A well rested Male (preferably Mr. Grey)

You've been warned...


Laters, Babe

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