The BDSM Book Club Discussion Thread

Choke and Diary...both by Chuck Palahniuk are kind of kinky. It's not the central theme or anything, but you do get sex acts bordering on the extreme.
 
Thank you {{{{{{FF}}}}}} :kiss: I'm looking forward to reading that. Hope you are having a good week hon.

I hope you are too. This week is all about trying to get adjusted to everyone having new schedules.

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FF

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Choke and Diary...both by Chuck Palahniuk are kind of kinky. It's not the central theme or anything, but you do get sex acts bordering on the extreme.

Thanks for the ideas Felix Jones. We did recently read Choke. I would love your comments on the book.

FF

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Discussion for the August 2010 BOTM is Sweetheart by Chelsea Cain can start NOW!

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I did not finish it yet! I can say so far, that I am in love with Archie Sheridan. I will take a bubble bath today and finish it. I am 1/4 through.
 
Sweetheart by Chelsea Cain

Did you like the book overall or not?


Not very much. I loved the first one. This one I liked, kinda

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

There was no BDSM in this book for me.

Did you like the sex scenes in the book?

No.

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

Not entirely. There were things I wanted to have happen after the first book that did not and things I didn't want to see happen that did.

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

I might be. If she puts out another book, I'd probably give it a try.

What did you like best about this selection?


The good parts for me, where Archie trying to move on and put his life back together in a healthy way.

What did you like the least?

Gretchen went from brilliantly nasty and intriguing to just knowing too much and it didn't feel fun anymore.

Also I wanted the female reporter story to go in another direction.

How would you have changed the story?

Gretchen would have been more realistic or not in the story at all. Another villain could take over.

Archie would have been happy with his wife and/or the reporter, a good father to his kids and free of Gretchen except for the nightmare / longings he can't get rid of .

*purrrrr*
 
Did you like the book overall or not?

Not at all. I had to "force" myself to give it a fair read.

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

Not as I see BDSM.

Did you like the sex scenes in the book?

No.

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

It was hard to follow the story. I think the sex scenes took so much away that I always felt I had to start over to figure out what was going on.

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

I don't think so


What did you like best about this selection?


That I'm finished with it.

What did you like the least?

Their definition of "safe sex." It seems "sort of safe." And they kept bringing it up. There really isn't any completely "safe sex" unless you and your partner are completely monogomas.


How would you have changed the story?

Remove the sex scenes and focus on the people.
 
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Thanks for your take on the book, Kayte. Sorry you didn't enjoy it. Did you read the first one? It was actually very good.

FF

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I'm still hoping to hear more people discussing the August 2010 BOTM is Sweetheart by Chelsea Cain.

Hopefully you are also reading the September 2010 BOTM is Nine and a Half Weeks: A Memoir of a Love Affair by Elizabeth McNeill.

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Thanks for your take on the book, Kayte. Sorry you didn't enjoy it. Did you read the first one? It was actually very good.

FF

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Hi {{{{{Fury}}}} :kiss:
We can't all enjoy every book we start. It isn't your fault hon. Reading books of all kinds is what a book group encourages and does. Thank you again for setting this thread up and for keeping it going.

I have reserved the book and am looking forward to getting it next week. It was marked as available when I went online but it is at a different county library. They'll send me an email when it is delivered to my library and that takes a couple of days. I find that amazing. That is done at no cost to me.

Hope you are having a wonderful holiday weekend!
 
Great attitude.

I hope you are having a great holiday weekend too.

FF

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Hi {{{{{Fury}}}} :kiss:
We can't all enjoy every book we start. It isn't your fault hon. Reading books of all kinds is what a book group encourages and does. Thank you again for setting this thread up and for keeping it going.

I have reserved the book and am looking forward to getting it next week. It was marked as available when I went online but it is at a different county library. They'll send me an email when it is delivered to my library and that takes a couple of days. I find that amazing. That is done at no cost to me.

Hope you are having a wonderful holiday weekend!
 
Hmm, no, we've done Natural Law by Joey W. Hill but none of those. I'll add the first one in to the next list for us to vote on. Thanks for the book nominations!

FF

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Thanks FF, I've read Natural Law too but it wasn't as hot as those :devil:

Anyway I hope you do read atleast one of them and enjoy.
 
What shall we read in October?

If you notice any books left out, would like to nominate a book or that I've left one in that we've already read, please let me know.

1.) Kushiel's Scion by Jacqueline Carey

Is this the next one after Justice?

2.) Queen of the Darkness, by Anne Bishop.

"Queen of the Darkness" is the third and last book in Anne Bishop's extraordinary "Black Jewels Trilogy." This is a strong novel which truly enhances the material in the first two books and provides a most fitting conclusion to this epic series. I would strongly advise reading the books in order, beginning with "Daughter of the Blood" and then "Heir to the Shadows" to best appreciate the intricate story, characters and unique world that Ms. Bishop has created. I only wish the author had written a quartet!

3.) 11 minutes by Paulo Coelho

A new, international bestseller by the author of The Alchemist tells the story of Maria, a young girl from a Brazilian village, whose first innocent brushes with love leave her heartbroken. At a tender age, she becomes convinced that she will never find true love, instead believing that "Love is a terrible thing that will make you suffer . . ." A chance meeting in Rio takes her to Geneva, where she dreams of finding fame and fortune. Instead, she ends up working as a prostitute.

In Geneva, Maria drifts further and further away from love as she develops a fascination with sex. Eventually, Maria's despairing view of love is put to the test when she meets a handsome young painter. In this odyssey of self-discovery, Maria has to choose between pursuing a path of darkness, sexual pleasure for its own sake, or risking everything to find her own "inner light" and the possibility of sacred sex, sex in the context of love.

In this gripping and daring new novel, Paulo Coelho sensitively explores the sacred nature of sex and love and invites us to confront our own prejudices and demons and embrace our own "inner light."

4.) One Dark Night by Jaid Black.

Finally! A Jaid Black book with a meaningful plot! I was actually engrossed in the mystery of this little who-done-it and not just in the sex scenes. Reading many of Jaid's other stories is a cross between the story line of a cheap porno and the sickeningly sweet endings of a childhood fairy tale. But not this book! Amazing! I hope she keeps it up!

5.) Gordon by Edith Templeton.

Originally written under a pseudonym, this thrilling novel of passion in post-World War II London was banned upon its publication in the late 1960s, and is only now being republished under the author’s real name. Edith Templeton creates an indelible character in the smartly dressed Louisa, a savvy young woman in the midst of a divorce who meets a charismatic man in a pub and within an hour has been sexually conquered by him on a garden bench. Thus begins her baffling but magnetic love affair with, and virtual enslavement to, Richard Gordon.

6.) Warrior's Woman by Johanna Lindsey.

Book Description:In the year 2139, fearless Tedra De Arr sets out to rescue her beleaguered planet Kystran from the savage rule of the evil Crad Ce Moerr. Experienced in combat but not in love, the beautiful, untouched Amazon flies with Martha, her wise-cracking, free-thinking computer, to a world where warriors reigns supreme--and into the arms of the one man she can never hope to vanquish: the bronzed barbarian Challen Ly-San-Ter. A magnificent creature of raw yet disciplined desires, the muscle-bound primitive succeeds where no puny Kystran male had before--igniting a raging fire within Tedra that must be extinguished before she can even think of saving her enslaved world. . .

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8) Wicked Pleasure by Jaid Black and Lora Leigh.

By CoffeeGurl (MA) - (TOP 100 REVIEWER)
Ties that Bind is one of the most smoldering erotic anthologies I've read as of late, and Jaid Black's Sins of the Father is the highlight of the book. Candy Morgan is James's nemesis. Her father had promised him a lucrative career and a place in the family, but then he discarded James without a moment's hesitation. Now Candy must surrender to James's dark desires and commands if she wants to keep her side of the business running. But little did she imagine that James had an unexpected agenda...

The erotic scenes in Father are insatiable beyond compare! The novella is full of Black's signature eroticism and mouthwatering descriptions. She is a great new voice in erotic fiction. I haven't been able to put down her books and I look forward to reading more of her stuff. Lora Leigh's Surrender, the other novella in Ties that Bind, is also a scorcher. These quickie reads will burn a hole in your sheets! I shall look into reading more of Ellora's Cave authors in the future. In the meantime, I recommend this book along with Jaid Black's The Possession.

9.) Obsession : an erotic tale by Vanderbilt, Gloria

Publisher Summary 2 New York social maven Priscilla Bingham discovers a hidden cache of letters that reveal her late husband's affair with a sophisticated dominatrix who has recorded the intimate details of their relationship, a finding with which Priscilla becomes increasingly obsessed. Publisher Summary 3
The marriages of desire . . .

From the multitalented and versatile Gloria Vanderbilt comes a passionate, sensual, witty, and puzzling tale of erotic obsession, beauty, and revenge, told in tandem by two women obsessed with the same man—and, ultimately, with each other.

Talbot Bingham is a renowned architectural genius who, with his formidable wife, Priscilla, creates an architectural community. When he dies unexpectedly in the middle of their tenth wedding anniversary celebration, the devastated Priscilla is left keeper of the flame of Talbot's genius. Going through her husband's archives, she comes unexpectedly upon a pile of neatly tied letters, and the shocking secret of her husband's intimate life—a discovery that shatters the foundation of her soul and spirit.

Obsession explores the mysteries of the human heart and the nature of sexuality and obsession, provoking questions about whom we choose to love, and why. The reader is left to decide if the other woman represents another facet of Priscilla, or if Priscilla her-self has invented the other woman who completed the world her husband so recently inhabited?


10.) The Vampire Queen's Servant by Joey W. Hill

Paranormal erotica from an award-winning author who stands out in a genre known for its out-of-the-ordinary love play." (Romance Studio)

Lady Elyssa Yamato Amaterasu Wentworth is a centuries-old vampire who's been given a new servant-Jacob, a total alpha male unaccustomed to submitting to any woman's wishes. What really binds Jacob to her are not her sensual midnight hungers, but something far more provocative.

It stirs her blood, renews her life, and awakens her soul like only true love can. The passion between Elyssa and Jacob yields something else unexpected-a shared history that reaches back through the centuries and is fated to challenge their destiny like nothing ever will again.

11.) Swallowing Darkness (Meredith Gentry, Book 7) by Laurell K. Hamilton

I am Meredith, princess of faerie, wielder of the hands of Flesh and Blood, and at long last, I am with child–twins, fathered by my royal guard. Though my uncle, Taranis, King of Light and Illusion, claims that he is the true father since he abducted me from my home, betrayed, and defiled me. And now he has branded my guards as a threat to my unborn children.

Bearing an heir has placed me halfway to my aunt’s throne, that much closer to my reign over the Unseelie Court–and well ahead of her son, my cousin Cel, in this race. Now I must stay alive to see my children born and claim my place as queen.

But not all in faerie are pleased with the news, and conspirators from every court in the realm plot against me and mine. They seek to strip my guards, my lovers, from me by poisoned word or cold steel. But I still have supporters, and even friends, among the goblins and the sluagh, who will stand by me.

I am Meredith Nic Essus, and those who would defy and destroy me are destined to pay a terrible price–for I am truly my father’s daughter. To protect what is mine, I will sacrifice anything–even if it means waging a great battle against my darkest enemies and making the most momentous decision ever made as princess of faerie.

Books I can't get at my library:

12.) One Foot in the Grave (Night Huntress, Book 2) by Jeaniene Frost

You can run from the grave, but you can't hide . . .

Half-vampire Cat Crawfield is now Special Agent Cat Crawfield, working for the government to rid the world of the rogue undead. She's still using everything Bones, her sexy and dangerous ex, taught her, but when Cat is targeted for assassination, the only man who can help her is the vampire she left behind.

Being around him awakens all her emotions, from the adrenaline kick of slaying vamps side by side to the reckless passion that consumed them. But a price on her head—wanted: dead or half-alive—means her survival depends on teaming up with Bones. And no matter how hard she tries to keep things professional between them, she'll find that desire lasts forever . . . and that Bones won't let her get away again.

13.) Menage by Emma Holly

Bookstore owner Kate comes home from work one day to find her two flatmates in bed...together. Joe - a sensitive composer - is mortified. Sean - an irrepressible bad boy - asks her to join in. Kate's been fantasising about her hunky new houseshares since they moved in, but she was convinced they were both gay.

Realising that pleasure is a multi-faceted thing, she sets her cares aside and embarks on a menage a trois with the wild duo. Kate wants nothing more than to keep both her admirers happy, but inevitably things become complicated, especially at work.

Kate has told her colleagues that Joe and Sean are gay but the gossip begins when she's caught in a clinch with one of them in her lunch hour! To add to this, one of Kate's more conservative suitors is showing interest again, but she's hooked on the different kind of loving that she enjoys with her boys - even though she knows it cannot last. Or can it?

14.) Breaking the Girl by Kim Corum

See what all the fuss is about. "I wasn't a slave. I was a willing participant." "His name was Frank. Just Frank. His last name really doesn't matter. It was Smith or Jones or Gallagher or... Hell. Just pick one. They're really all the same. I didn't know that much about him." "Maybe Frank classified me as a whore." "I stopped talking, begging, pleading. Plotting. I wasn't going to win him over. It was his way or no way. And I knew that. So it was his way." "I just wasn't that kind of tie me up, tie me down, beat me, switch me, hold me tight, love me forever' kind of girl. Frank was that kind of guy. Which made me that kind of girl." "And when it was over, we fell away from each other gasping for air." ".he brought the money-in fifties and hundreds-to me, delivering it in a bank bag. Delivering it to me with a big smile on his face, as if he were happy to deliver it, glad he could accommodate me. Who was the real slave here?" Breaking the Girl-a story of white hot sex and submission.


15.) Safe Word by Molly Weatherfield. From the author of Carrie's Story comes the continuing tale of a young woman's uncompromising sexual adventure.

Carrie leaves Jonathan, the S/M master who initiated her into a life of slave auctions, training regimes, and human "ponies" preening for dressage competitions. Whisked away to Greece by the demanding gentleman who has chosen her as his own, she learns new, more rigorous methods of sexual pleasure.

16.) Slaves of the Empire by Aaron Travis.
Steven Saylor in disguise, his hot porn still includes marvelous details of Rome at its dirtiest, wealthiest, and most kinky.

17.) Topping From Below by Laura Reese.

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.

18.) Wild Rain by Christine Feehan

Feehan has a knack for bringing vampiric Carpathians to vivid, virile life in her Dark Carpathian novels, and in this new book, which builds on her short story "The Awakening," she focuses on a different kind of sensual predator—a half-human/half-leopard species of shapeshifters.

Mysterious freelance paramilitary operative Rio Santana is a member of this breed, but he's been banished from his clan and lives in a solitary rainforest dwelling. Enter Rachel Lospostos, who has marooned herself in the jungle to escape a group of murderers.

Blood runs hot between the two, both emotionally and literally—their first meeting is a near-terminal cat fight that leaves Rachel bedridden with a mangled leg and a broken wrist. As Rio cares for her, it becomes clear that their relationship is fated, but it may soon be cut short if they don't figure out who wants Rachel dead.

Suspense often takes a backseat to the protagonists' romantic feelings, but Feehan handles both elements skillfully, drawing villains who are sufficiently threatening and creating a romance that feels both destined and believable. Readers whose fantasies center on untamed wilderness and on untamed heroes who are as sensitive as they are strong will be seduced by this erotic adventure. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

19.) The Reluctant Dom by Tymber Dalton

Love hurts...if you're lucky.-

Kaden knows he's dying, but before he goes, he has one problem he needs to solve - he must ask his oldest friend Seth to take over as his beloved wife's Dom and Master after his death. Seth has always seen himself as the perpetual screw-up and Kaden as the strong and steady one, so his friend's request rocks his world.-

Now Seth finds himself immersed in a role he's far from comfortable with: inflicting pain to provide emotional comfort for the woman he's secretly loved for years. Can he deal with his crushing grief and learn the skills he must master in time to become THE RELUCTANT DOM?-

Warning: m/f/m menage, anal sex/play/toys, BDSM, bondage, D/s relationship, and the lesser-known "normality" of the world of BDSM.-

Any book you consider to have been pleasurable, and somewhat BDSM please share!

Nominations are always open!

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I need some votes please. I'd like to annouce the October book by the 15th. That's like tomorrow!

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No votes?

Okay I'm going to go with:

Gordon by Edith Templeton is the October 2010 BOTM.

I can get it at my library so that works for me.

FF

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No votes?

Okay I'm going to go with:

Gordon by Edith Templeton is the October 2010 BOTM.

I can get it at my library so that works for me.

FF

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Hi {{{{{Fury}}}}} :kiss:

I can't get Gordon at my library. I searched on the title and the author. I accessed all of the libraries in my county. Sorry about that. :(
 
Hi {{{{{Fury}}}}} :kiss:

I can't get Gordon at my library. I searched on the title and the author. I accessed all of the libraries in my county. Sorry about that. :(

I'm so sorry to hear that. Please vote on a book for next month that you can get.

*hug*

FF

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