The BDSM Book Club Discussion Thread

[ImSkye]

Okay our selection for the BDSM book club in July is:

11.) The switch by Diane Whiteside.

In 2001 Seattle, former Army Ranger Sean Lindstrom owns the building containing the bookstore near the BDSM dungeon. There he meets US Treasury Agent Beth Nakamura who is looking for various non-fiction sex books. She orders him into the backroom and he obeys her command. She demands the submissive follow her orders and Sean does everything she commands she do ending with him jacking himself off in front of her. She is stunned with how easily she took control of this big dude while he is shocked that he came easily as he has been a monk for about a dozen years. ---

They agree to meet for more S&M lighthearted fun and when they do sparks fly. As they share sexual fantasies, Beth and Sean fall in love with one another, but both have monster doubts about a future together. He is a widower with a high school senior son whose memories of marriage are not that good while she was humiliated by her womanizing ex-fiancé so has trust issues. --- Though the opening encounter at the bookstore (not the ten years earlier military operation in Latin America) seems more a fantasy, erotic romance readers will appreciate this fine look at dominant-submissive behavior.

The relationship between the lead couple starts off at a high bang and never slows down as they enjoy their sexual encounters. Not for everyone, THE SWITCH is a heated novel that takes adjusting to the topic, but once done readers will appreciate that the tough ex Ranger who could kill without blinking has a submissive streak in the bedroom now to find those satin ropes. --- Harriet Klausner

I hope everyone reads along with us this week.

I'm off to reserve the book at my library!

Fury

They have it at Borders - I am going to pick it up in the next couple of days. You can read the first few pages at Amazon. I am interested in reading it. Being a submissive female, in the past I have only picked Dom/Alpha Male books because that's my thing. This will be a switch for me.

Skye

 

[ImSkye]

Oh - and the cover is yummy.

Skye

 

[FurryFury]

They have it at Borders - I am going to pick it up in the next couple of days. You can read the first few pages at Amazon. I am interested in reading it. Being a submissive female, in the past I have only picked Dom/Alpha Male books because that's my thing. This will be a switch for me.

Skye

Yay!

I'm so glad you will be reading along with us this month!

*hugs*

Hahaha! A switch for you? Hahaha! Good one!

Fury

 

[leeroy jenkins]

WOOT I got last months book done and though I disliked you for the choice at the time it really is quite a good book.

 

[FurryFury]

*cries*

How could you dislike me over a book selection?

*dissolves into puddle of goo sobbing*

Fury

 

[leeroy jenkins]

*cries*

How could you dislike me over a book selection?

*dissolves into puddle of goo sobbing*

Fury

I wanted romance... but that emma book has nothing on the sex that he puts out there for us to read. It was more annoyance rather then dislike but it faded.

 

[FurryFury]

Someone is always burdened with making the hard choices. I find that romance is in MOST fiction but I'm rarely into fiction that is mostly romance.

Please note the selection for this month (July) states a romance occurs within it.

Fury

 

[leeroy jenkins]

Someone is always burdened with making the hard choices. I find that romance is in MOST fiction but I'm rarely into fiction that is mostly romance.

Please note the selection for this month (July) states a romance occurs within it.

Fury

This month just from the little I read of what you posted sounds very good. And if it is like small town bdsm wise its sure to be a hit.

 

[FurryFury]

Some things I would like to know:

Did you like the book overall or not?

Yes, I did.

Do you feel it portrays BDSM in a real way, a positive way and/or your way?

Um, anyway, in a real way? Yes, more than any of the previous books with one or two caveats. I don't believe she could be submissive with someone who didn't attempt to Dom her as in the restaurant though I do believe she could fantasize it. I also don't believe one could "just know" everything she suddenly did without some research and experience in BDSM.

In a positive way, yes, that too. No one is harmed and all seemed pleased with their BDSM

Did you like the sex scenes in the book?

Yes. Are there any sex scenes I don't like though, that might be a good question. *chuckles*

I did like them but I wanted them to be longer and more detailed too.

Did you like the rest of the book, the story in it?

During the first part of the book I found myself skimming it because I HATE be subject to a sick fucks mind or POV particularly when they are killing people and don't feel it's wrong. It's even worse if they think they care about the victims and are "sad" about it. It just rubs against my soul badly.

After a while as the romance and the lady's adventures took up more of the book I began to enjoy the story more. At the end I felt I'd lost a good friend and hated it to be over. *sighs*

Would you be interested in reading another book by this author?

Yes, I like this author but only for some of his series and not others.

What did you like best about this selection?

When the lead male character said that Sex was her Art wow that resonated with me. And the concept that true art comes from the focused output of one's insanity was fantastic in a way too.

What did you like the least?

How I had to "see" through a fucked up killer's eyes and how the lady was not experienced in BDSM but suddenly was running so many shows as if she was an expert. Also, I didn't really understand what she was or what she was after but then I suspect she didn't either.

How would you have changed the story?

I would have liked to not have to peep the mind of the killer and have the lady have a better more detailed background and have MORE BDSM MORE detailed.

Of course, you don't have to answer the questions above and you can say anything you like.

I think I did, thanks!

Fury

 

[leeroy jenkins]

I guess I will have to bow out on this months reading my library does not have it in stock.

 

[ImSkye]

I guess I will have to bow out on this months reading my library does not have it in stock.

That's a shame. I read it yesterday and it is a romance - I was thinking it would be right up your alley because of your previous posts requesting one. I don't know if you want to buy it, but I got my copy at Borders.

Skye

 

[bridgeburner]

It'll be a couple weeks still before I can comment on the Block book. I finally had to order it from Amazon so I'm waiting for delivery and when it gets here I don't know exactly where I'll be in my other reading goals.

Right on with this month's selection. I'll pick it up and be ready ON TIME next month. ;->

 

[FurryFury]

I guess I will have to bow out on this months reading my library does not have it in stock.

I am so sorry to hear this!

I got my copy today. I'm reading something else ATM though.

Fury

That's a shame. I read it yesterday and it is a romance - I was thinking it would be right up your alley because of your previous posts requesting one. I don't know if you want to buy it, but I got my copy at Borders.

Skye

Good to hear!

Fury

It'll be a couple weeks still before I can comment on the Block book. I finally had to order it from Amazon so I'm waiting for delivery and when it gets here I don't know exactly where I'll be in my other reading goals.

Right on with this month's selection. I'll pick it up and be ready ON TIME next month. ;->

I will be happy to hear what you think when you get it read!

Fury

 

[FurryFury]

I got to start The Switch book last night!!!



Fury

 

[ImSkye]

I got to start The Switch book last night!!!



Fury

Cool! I finished it a few days ago so I will probably go back through it before I answer the questions to have it fresh in my mind.

Skye

 

[FurryFury]

Cool! I finished it a few days ago so I will probably go back through it before I answer the questions to have it fresh in my mind.

Skye

Good! It looks to be a good and quick read as far as I can tell.

Fury

 

[ImSkye]

Ooops.....

 

[FurryFury]

And in the WRONG thread! Yikes!

Fury

 

[ImSkye]

And in the WRONG thread! Yikes!

Fury

I was wondering, but I wasn't gonna say anything - lol.

Skye

 

[FurryFury]

I was wondering, but I wasn't gonna say anything - lol.

Skye

I made an "oops" but I'm trying to fix it.

*sighs*

Fury

 

[ImSkye]

I made an "oops" but I'm trying to fix it.

*sighs*

Fury

Oops fixed. No worries

Skye

 

[FurryFury]

Oops fixed. No worries

Skye

Thanks Sugah!



Fury

 

[ImSkye]

Thanks Sugah!



Fury

Anytime.

Skye

 

[FurryFury]

So, um, to continue the discussion of this past month's book (June 2006,) do you think art comes from the focused outpouring of madness?

Can BDSM and/or sex be art?

Fury

 

[FurryFury]

We have about a week to nominate and choose a new read for August!

Noooooo! I don't want July to end!

So if anyone has any nominations let me know or post them here!

Also if anyone wants to discuss Small Town more, let's get to it!

Below are the nominations so far:

1,) Kushiel's Chosen by Jacqueline Carey

In this engrossing adult fantasy tale, the fascinating Phèdre nó Delaunay fights to save her queen and country in a battle whose greatest weapon proves to be Phèdre herself. This sequel to Carey's accomplished debut novel, Kushiel's Dart, finds Phèdre, now Comtesse de Montrève, once again plying her skills as an anguissette--a courtesan for whom pain becomes pleasure--and her talents as a spy. She uncovers a conspiracy of treason and murder and begins an adventure that takes her once more to distant lands in the company of an intriguing cast of characters--and a new confrontation with her old enemy, Melisande Shahrizai.

2.) Heir to the shadows, by Anne Bishop, from The Black Jewels Trilogy which includes-- Heir to the shadows and Queen of the darkness.

In Heir to the Shadows, Jaenelle's vampiric, adoptive father, Saetan, and her foster-family of demons shelter her. To restore her memory and emotional balance, they move to Kaeleer, where Jaenelle befriends the kindred--animals with magical and communicative powers--and gathers a circle of young Queens. She also heals Lucivar, Daemon's half-brother, who offers a brother's love and a warrior's fealty. As she recovers strength and memory, Jaenelle resolves to restore Daemon and cleanse Terreille.

Bishop subverts readers' expectations; the "darkest" powers reside in virtuous characters, demons and vampires are kindly, and Jaenelle's adolescence is more comically normal than horrific. Her vibrant characters and descriptions will keep readers hooked, anxiously awaiting what promises to be a riveting conclusion. --Nona Vero


3.) Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down: Three Tales of Erotic Romance by Sherrilyn Kenyon, Melanie George, Jaid Black

Book Description

In this sexy erotica anthology, three hot authors reel you in with sizzling novellas about alpha heroes who will do anything to get the women they want -- even kidnap them!
Bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon presents "'Captivated' by You," the second sexy story in her series featuring the Bureau of American Defense. Rhea Stevenson is a "BAD" agent who has just been handed her most challenging assignment. She must go undercover as a dominatrix to bring in a deadly terrorist. The only upside is that her fellow agent, "Ace" Krux, whom she has long desired, is her training partner. Almost immediately the roles of master and slave are wonderfully blurred and Rhea and Ace unleash a wealth of hidden desire.

From bestselling romance author Melanie George comes "Promise Me Forever," the story of Savannah Harper, who has finally put her breakup with pro-football player Donovan Jerricho behind her. But when Tristan comes home to Mississippi on the eve of Savannah's wedding, he still wants her. And when he carries her off and holds her hostage, Savannah's surprised to find that the desire's deliciously mutual....

From Jaid Black comes "Hunter's Right," the fantastical story of Corporal Ronda Tipton of the U.S. Army, whose chopper goes down in the Arctic Circle. The only survivor of the crash, Ronda happens upon a hidden civilization of Vikings -- where she must face the bridal auction block. Only Nikolas Ericsson, the man who found Ronda, can save her by claiming her as his own according to sacred rights. But will she and this primitive brute give in to the sparks made when their worlds collide?

Sensual and playful, these three novellas will carry you away!



4.) Wild women : contemporary short stories by women celebrating women / edited by Sue Thomas

Contents The tiger's bride / Angela Carter -- Woman from America / Bessie Head -- The English disease / Nina Fitzpatrick -- The smile of a mountain witch / Ohba Minako -- Two words / Isabel Allende -- The debutante / Leonora Carrington -- Liking men / Margaret Atwood -- Simmering / Margaret Atwood -- In the garden / Darcey Steinke -- The odalisque, extinct / Diana Hartog -- Bloodmantle / Tanith Lee -- Sleeping Beauty, revised / Jill McCorkle -- All strapped in / Sue Thomas -- Orchids to you, dear / Fiona Cooper -- Really, doesn't crime pay? / Alice Walker -- Stone-eating girl / Meena Alexander -- The raw brunettes / Lorraine Schein -- I like to look / Kathy Page -- Planetesimal / Keri Hulme -- Perma red / Debra Earling -- The queen's chamber / A. N. Roquelaure (Anne Rice) -- Her thighs / Dorothy Allison -- Four bare legs in a bed / Helen Simpson -- How to save your own life / Erica Jong -- It's bad luck to die / Elizabeth McCracken -- MindMovie / Christine Slater -- A day at the peep show / Veronica Vera -- Roses / Evelyn Lau -- Julia and the bazooka / Anna Kavan -- Silver water / Amy Bloom -- In my next life / Pam Houston -- Many mothers / Beverley Daurio -- Suicide / Mariarosa Sclauzero -- Autobiography / Carol Emshw.

From Library Journal
Capitalizing on the appeal of Clarissa Pinkola Este's popular Women Who Run with the Wolves (LJ 6/15/92), editor Thomas has prepared this volume of short stories that "bring together modern examples of the warrior guises of Wild Woman." Thomas, a novelist and writing instructor whose own "All Strapped In" is included in the volume, divides the works into eight thematic sections-empowerment, sex, and righteous rage, among them-and provides informative introductory remarks to each section. The short stories come from a politically correct mix of contemporary women writers that include Isabel Allende, Margaret Atwood, Pam Houston, Alice Walker, and a number of emerging voices. It's not an essential purchase, but your Wild Women readers will want to check it out.
Debbie Bogenschutz, Cincinnati Technical Coll.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

5.) Topping From Below by Laura Reese.

From Publishers Weekly
The title of this devilishly pornographic?albeit literate?novel is taken from the argot of sadomasochism and refers to a rebellious dynamic in which the dominant partner (the "top") is subtly manipulated by the submissive partner (the "bottom"). After her young sister, Franny, is found murdered?bound, gagged and mutilated?Nora Tibbs, a journalist for the Sacramento Bee, discovers in Franny's computer a diary that details her brief affair with "M.," an arrogant music professor in his late 40s. Cruelly exploiting the overweight, love-starved woman, M. forced Franny to submit to a humiliating gamut of outre sexual practices. Convinced that M. is Franny's murderer, Nora sets out to prove his guilt by pretending to submit to his depraved aberrations. But, to her astonishment, she discovers a dark, pagan side of herself when M. enthralls her with intense, if perilous, sexual pleasure. Graphic descriptions of exotic sexual practices (bondage and discipline, sadomasochism, bestiality, etc.) accumulate, counterpointed by Nora's sweetly romantic relationship with a fellow reporter. The suspense, a bit attenuated by thin secondary characters, also is muted by artless foreshadowing, but the conclusion is satisfying in a savage sort of way and Nora's plunge "down, all the way down" under M.'s manipulations will keep most readers gripped even as they're aware that Reese's shameless pandering is manipulating them in turn. Comparison to Story of O is well earned. 100,000 first printing; Literary Guild and Doubleday Recommended for adult fiction collections.

6.) Cooking Up a Storm by Emma Holly

The Coates Inn Restaurant in Cape Cod is about to go belly up when its attractive owner, Abby, jumps at a stranger's offer to help her – both in her kitchen and her bed. The handsome chef claims to have an aphrodisiac menu that her patrons won't be able to resist. Can this playboy chef really save the day when Abby's body means more to him than her feelings? Beautifully written and evocative story of love, lust and haute cuisine.
---------This novel by Emma Holly is set on Cape Cod, and boy oh boy you have to look at the Cape differently after reading Cooking Up a Storm. Thee is more sex here than you can imagine regular working people having, but not only do both Emma and Storm have each other, they have numerous other partners. This is ma modern erotic romance where the woman has traditionally masculline traits, and the hero has more feminine traits in some respects. While that may be disconcerting to some, it makes for a different, interesting read.

Storm comes looking for a job but really for a business he can take over. He is not sympathetic at all. Abby has a failing restaurant and needs help, both in the restaurant and in finding her sexual side. Storm unleashes a monster. Abby finds herself witha a number of people before deciding to make her way back to the aphrodesiac laced cooking, and loviong, of Storm.

I started our liking Abby and not caring much for Storm, but ended liking Storm much more but still not rooting for either one. I thought, by the end of the book, that they deserved each other.

Would I buy it? Yes. Would I keep it? No. The ses is to ordinary and the plot not interesting enough for it to go on my keeper shelf. Good beach or bathtub read where you don't care if it gets wet.

----------------Ms Holly has recently been reissuing several of her earlier erotic stories, beginning with the terrific PERSONAL ASSETS. I decided to check out this story as well, but I must say that I did not enjoy this one nearly as much as I did PA. I'm no puritan, but I think casual sex can be taken too far! One of the things I liked best about PERSONAL ASSETS was the relationship within each of the couples and the fact that there were feelings involved along with the sex. But here I found next to no romance - just lots of gratuitous, incredibly casual sex under the guise of a woman "exploring her sexuality".

The book started out great! Jaded Storm Dupre is a hot, sexy LA-based chef looking for a fresh start and new challenges. A help-wanted ad for a chef to work in a small Cape Cod inn grabs his attention and soon he has uprooted his life and moved across the country intent on eventually buying out the inn's owner. She is Abby Coates who is hanging onto the inn by a thread. She hopes that the additional business a hotshot new chef will bring in will allow her to get the inn back on firm financial footing. Abby has just ended her relationship with a longtime boyfriend with whom she had a less than satisfactory sex life. Of course she and Storm are immediately attracted and she finds that sex with Storm has opened her eyes to lots of possibilities. Unfortunately, from there things went downhill for me, as Abby proceeds to have sex with just about everyone in town! Meanwhile the love-em-and-leave-em Storm begins to fall hard for her.

But I have to say that toward the end I really disliked Abby (...)! On the flip side, I began to like Storm more and more. I would have liked this book much more if it had concentrated on Abby and Storm as a couple rather than Abby's sexual exploits. And in the end, I have to say that I had no faith that their relationship would survive. But that's just me. For those who like erotica for it's own sake, this story may work. It didn't for me.

7. Top of Her Game by Emma Holly

Style and sensuality. Power and passion...There's something about the Parisian boutique Meilleurs Amis that provokes all who enter to blur the line between business and pleasure. No one knows this better than Beatrix Clouet, the daughter of its infamous and not-so-dearly departed founder, and her best friend-and new management trainee-Lela Turner.

Now, as they try to get their professional and personal lives on track, these best friends will have to weigh the price of love and lust-while making their wildest fantasies come to life... --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

8.) The Companion (Regency Vampire Novels) (Mass Market Paperback) by Susan Squires

Now that Elizabeth Rochewell's archaeologist father has died, society mandates she leave the freedom of the Sahara Desert and return to the stifling parlors of Regency England. Ian Rufford is a tortured soul. Captured and sold as a slave to a sadistic vampire, Ian will use any means possible to escape, especially after he realizes that he, too, is a vampire. He decides that an English doctor specializing in disorders of the blood might be able to save him, or put him out of his misery. For Elizabeth, the only good thing about her trip back to England is meeting a handsome, brooding stranger. Ian is aware of Beth, too, but he can't risk dragging her into his own personal hell. Darkly erotic and sinister in tone, this richly detailed book isn't for the faint of heart; but readers who crave the shadowy worlds of Christine Feehan's Carpathians, Laurell K. Hamilton's vampires, or Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dark Hunters will find that Squires' book is just the thing to sink their teeth into. Shelley Mosley Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved


Stories:

9.) Tales From Subspace by NIGHTQUEEN1963. http://english.literotica.com/stori...ry.php?id=84817

10.) Night Prowler by Paddymellon http://www.bdsmlibrary.com/stories/...php?storyid=334