reviews

The Adventures and Pain of Growing Up: A Story of Tragedy and Repair Author: Esther Ehrlich Naomi “Chirp” Orenstein is a normal young girl, happy to follow her hobby of examining birds and twirling with her dancer mother during the humid summer of Cape Cod in 1972. Everything is summer calm until Chirp’s mother begins to have bizarre symptoms of a debilitating disease that leads her into clinical depression and worse. Chirp, forced into the ramifications of adulthood, love, loss, and pain too early tries to connect the pieces in her life, finding comfort in birds and friendship with Joey, [...]

A Short Story of Losing Virginity Author: Vonnick de Rosmadec Twins and Virgins is a short, erotic story about two eighteen year old twin girls who seek out the Chateau des Plaisirs to lose their virginity to willing men. Chateau des Plaisirs is a mansion devoted to the sexual pleasures of its customers, similar in a way to the atmosphere of The Story of O but far less disturbing and with a consensual air. The girls, Audrey and Victoria, identical twins, have always done everything together, and this is no exception. The story starts as it means to go on, introducing [...]

First Comes Love, then Comes Marriage, then comes Murder, and No Baby Carriage Author: M.C. Beaton Perambulating around the library, waiting on some holds, I was still hankering for a mystery. I saw a neat set of Agatha Raisin novels lined up in the audio book section (essentials for a daily commute of no less than two hours – which let me tell you cuts into prime bookworm time) and decided to peruse through the titles. Hurrying through a library visit would be simply wrong, and selecting the next cozy mystery read as the heat of August shifts into that [...]