Shades of reading
“Sometimes it gets difficult to get there, to reach till the end while there are some who have no problems in abandoning a book halfway through”
I couldn’t agree more when Seema Goswami quoted this somewhere. Like her, I also belong to the “I’ve started so I’ll finish” group of readers taking every book I read as a journey that I have to complete from the start till the end. Like the seven colors of the rainbow, every book adds more shades to my life and to my words.
Of late, someone suggested me to read Fifty Shades of Grey, By E L James. The book had its own fan following and the buzz I could hear from everywhere. I thought it could be interesting and I wanted to know what all the hype was about. So I started reading it. The plot seemed intriguing and I was happy that I will have a comfortable journey till the end.
Classified as erotic fiction, the book was written by British author, with characters Christian Grey, Anastasia Steele is written in three parts and was published in the year 2011. In the first part, it follows Anastasia Steele as she ventures into a hardcore sexual relationship with older billionaire tycoon Christian Grey. Steele is a clumsy, naive girl who is inexperienced in the ways of the world. Grey is cultured and mature for his age. Grey is at once taken by Steele and resolves to have her for himself. But the relationship has its twists including the psychological scarring of Grey’s past and the sexual relationship between the two. The book is an old fashioned love story but with some odd sex toys, riding-crops and mild bondage tossed in it.
When it comes to romance novels and books I have seen many categories: inspirational, contemporary, classic, historical and this time it was erotic. My journey got difficult, far from my comfort zone and expectations. It was like an ugly face to the most adorned emotion of life. A person, you love the most and the same person who gives you all the reasons to abhor him at the same time. The extreme emotions and the power of description will remain etched in my mind.
It may be the season for blue skies and sunshine, but the color for the book is grey; quite literally!
I couldn’t agree more when Seema Goswami quoted this somewhere. Like her, I also belong to the “I’ve started so I’ll finish” group of readers taking every book I read as a journey that I have to complete from the start till the end. Like the seven colors of the rainbow, every book adds more shades to my life and to my words.
Of late, someone suggested me to read Fifty Shades of Grey, By E L James. The book had its own fan following and the buzz I could hear from everywhere. I thought it could be interesting and I wanted to know what all the hype was about. So I started reading it. The plot seemed intriguing and I was happy that I will have a comfortable journey till the end.
Classified as erotic fiction, the book was written by British author, with characters Christian Grey, Anastasia Steele is written in three parts and was published in the year 2011. In the first part, it follows Anastasia Steele as she ventures into a hardcore sexual relationship with older billionaire tycoon Christian Grey. Steele is a clumsy, naive girl who is inexperienced in the ways of the world. Grey is cultured and mature for his age. Grey is at once taken by Steele and resolves to have her for himself. But the relationship has its twists including the psychological scarring of Grey’s past and the sexual relationship between the two. The book is an old fashioned love story but with some odd sex toys, riding-crops and mild bondage tossed in it.When it comes to romance novels and books I have seen many categories: inspirational, contemporary, classic, historical and this time it was erotic. My journey got difficult, far from my comfort zone and expectations. It was like an ugly face to the most adorned emotion of life. A person, you love the most and the same person who gives you all the reasons to abhor him at the same time. The extreme emotions and the power of description will remain etched in my mind.
It may be the season for blue skies and sunshine, but the color for the book is grey; quite literally!
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