Content 18 + (published as is, blog owner may have different opinion from the author)
“The lizard brain stirred and a billion years later Reacher leaned forward an inch.”
Strange sentence, don’t you agree? Actually, I consider it one of the most compelling lines I can remember. (Maybe you will think I have a small memory bank?)
Actually it comes from a book by a very popular writer named Lee … Read the rest
Content 21+ (explicit content) Sometime back in the day, I heard of a book (cynically) entitled “How to Pick Up a Feminist”. I thought it was funny. I had just come back from Europe and enrolled at FSU for yet another attempt at finally finishing off my doctoral program, and I was doing creative writing for my degree. (The ‘dissertation’ turned out to be a body of my own poetry.) … Read the rest
Content advisory 18+ I have been exchanging letters with a friend who writes novels. She is a woman of Moscow with long-established connections to New York City. Clever, sophisticated, and talented, she is, in fact, among the most unforgettably beautiful women I have ever seen. Hauntingly so, like the Mona Lisa. Or the Girl With the Pearl Earring. Except better.
Feminist trash-talking being what it is — if we can … Read the rest
Content advisory 18+ In America, guys approaching or just past 40 (In Russia it is 30, according to my friends) are always having what is known as “the mid-life crisis”. I never had it because I never grew up and never wanted to deal with anything as boring as ‘adult responsibilities’. Well, I jest, but maybe it says something about me that for my last Happy New Year gifts, I … Read the rest
This is part two. Read part one here.
Контент 16+
It is one thing to describe the desirable physical attributes of women (Russian or otherwise), and quite another to talk about their character. Again, it seems…somehow…an invasion of privacy, and one risks making a fool of oneself. At best it is like tasting some exotic new soup which you can't say immediately if you like it or not; at worst … Read the rest
