Smut & Scones

The sex scenes in Outlander are some of the best I have ever read. Now here is a book that proves you can have Smart and Sexy all in one epic package. Copyright Starz What makes these erotic scenes so great is that Outlander is not an erotic novel; it's not a romance novel, either, or strictly a fantasy novel. It's this huge, beautiful story about love and loss and loyalty and how you choose what's really important in life and if choosing is even really possible anyway, and also time travel, and oh yeah sex. Steamy, amazing sex. Classy AND Trashy This is smut for grown-ups, people. Sex scenes that are damn hot and damn fine literature all at the same time. They are romantic and arousing, and just graphic enough to drive the point home (ahem) without veering off into tawdry territory - beautiful literary writing that just happens to be about naked relations. There are three things in particular that make Outlander's erotica the best, all of which...

It's the middle of April, and that means we're deep into National Poetry Month. Welcome! Every day is National Reading Day at my house, so I love a publicly sanctioned opportunity to welcome the masses into my world. And yay for a month dedicated to poetry. Beautiful, sublime, uplifting poetry! Ugh, poetry. My shelves are filled with prose. Fantasy, scifi, erotica, thriller, biography, self-help, history, ad nauseum.  Ironically, I also read a lot of Shakespeare. Bill and I go way back. I played Nick Bottom in a giant paper mache donkey head in A Midsummer Night's Dream in 8th grade and fell in love with iambic pentameter (and the saucy antics of Elizabethan theatre). But show me a volume of Whitman or Browning or Burns and while I may pretend to be totally into it for my image, in my head I'm just pondering ways to change the subject lest my true feelings suddenly reveal themselves. It all goes back to English class. I never really got poetry in school...