Day 11: A book you hated.

Argh, too many!

Anything by Nicholas Sparks, for one.

Since this blog post is likely to not amount to much, I'm just going to briefly run through

WHY YOU SHOULD NOT BUY INTO THE WHOLE 50 SHADES THING

It's abusive. It's as close to actual BDSM as Twilight is to romance. Mr. Gray is a stalker, a rapist, a misogynist, and basically everything that can go wrong with him does. Most of what he does is coercive and requires little in the way of ensuring that Anastasia Steele is sanely and enthusiastically consenting to their activities. God, what a complete trainwreck.

Don't read that disaster. Read something like the Boss series by Abigail Barnette (thorough discussion of what constitutes a proper scene including aftercare, representation, diversity, discussion on privilege, hot erotica, etc.) but just none of this bull crap.