Tuesday, 4 December 2018

Bad Sex in Fiction Award 2018 ***explicit content***


Yes it's that time of the year again, when the Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction Award is handed out! The award is for “the most egregious passage of sexual description in a work of fiction” and I always have a good laugh looking at the contenders! It reminds me why i avoid these kinds of books!

*** warning-explicit content! NO children!***

THE SHORT LIST (extracts)

1) Scoundrels: The Hunt for Hansclapp by Major Victor Cornwall and Major Arthur St John Trevelyan:
“Empty my tanks,” I’d begged breathlessly, as once more she began drawing me deep inside her pleasure cave. Her vaginal ratchet moved in concertina-like waves, slowly chugging my organ as a boa constrictor swallows its prey. Soon I was locked in, balls deep, ready to be ground down by the enamelled pepper mill within her.
AND this passage!

I yearned again for the cogs of her Iron Maiden to grind my glans around inside her like an opera singer with a mouth lozenge.  

2) Katerina by James Frey
  
I’m hard and deep inside her fucking her on the bathroom sink her tight little black dress still on her thong on the floor my pants at my knees our eyes locked, our hearts and souls and bodies locked.
Cum inside me. Cum inside me. Cum inside me.
Blinding breathless shaking overwhelming exploding white God I cum inside her my cock throbbing we’re both moaning eyes hearts souls bodies one.
One.
White.
God.
Cum.
Cum.
Cum.
I close my eyes let out my breath.
Cum.

3) Connect by Julian Gough
  
He drops the bra to the floor, looks up, into her eyes, it’s too much. He kisses her chin, her mouth, and their tongues touch, oh, too much, he slips his lips free with a soft suck. Moves up to kiss her strong nose, on one side, then the other, it’s hard and soft at once. He moves back down, till he is level with her breasts.
‘They’re small,’ she says, surprisingly shy, apologetic.
‘They’re perfect,’ he says.
He kisses them. Teases a nipple with his lips. It’s so soft; and then, suddenly, hard.
Wow.
He sucks on the hard nipple.
He has never done this before, and yet; no, wait, of course, it is totally familiar.
The first thing he ever did.
He feels the huge change in meaning, in status; it is as though he had grown up in a single suck. Everything transformed. And yet nothing has changed at all; he sucks at a nipple as he lies on a bed, and it’s eighteen years later, and he sucks at a nipple as he lies on a bed, and his childhood falls away from him like a burned-out booster stage from a rocket. Its fuel used up. He is now in orbit around a different planet.

4) Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami

My ejaculation was violent, and repeated. Again and again, semen poured from me, overflowing her vagina, turning the sheets sticky. There was nothing I could do to make it stop. If it continued, I worried, I would be completely emptied out. Yuzu slept deeply through it all without making a sound, her breathing even. Her sex, though, had contracted around mine, and would not let go. As if it had an unshakeable will of its own and was determined to wring every last drop from my body

5)  Grace’s Day by William Wall
He’s almost weightless. When he enters me it hurts and my pain belongs to the subterranean world, primitive as the clay. His body is slacker than I expected, a small paunch begins at his waist and settles in a downward parabola to his groin. His pubic hair is red. His erect penis is a surprise although I had imagined what they would feel like, read about them, seen them represented on toilet walls and magazines. I didn’t see it before he entered me, but afterwards it is small and sticky and amusing. I want to touch it but I don’t dare. I don’t know the etiquette. He is twenty or more years older than me. This is sex.

6) Kismet by Luke Tredget

She shuffles her head closer to his cock, close enough to smell her own residue, and then takes it in her mouth, with the vague idea of cleaning it. Geoff mirrors this gesture by burying his head between her legs, and gradually she can feel his cock pumping up with blood, one pulse at a time, until it is long and hard and filling her wide-open mouth. They stay in this position for a long time, Anna sucking and slurping with the same lazy persistence you’d use on a gobstopper or a stick of rock. Eventually she loses her sense of the context altogether – of what she is doing or who she is with or where they are – and becomes an empty vessel for what feels like disembodied consciousness. She looks at the window and wonders how the glass feels encased within its wooden frame, what the shaggy clouds feel like being blown across the sky, what the walls felt like being splattered and smeared with wet paint …

7) The Paper Lovers by Gerard Woodward

He was aware that she was making a mewling sound as he put his lips to her tightened nipple and sucked. Her mouth was at his ear, her tongue travelling along its grooves, voice filling it. His mouth tugged at her, extended her, she snapped back, there was a taste of something on his tongue. In his mind he pictured her neck, her long neck, her swan’s neck, her Alice in Wonderland neck coiling like a serpent, like a serpent, coiling down on him. She had found a way through his clothing and her fingers had lightly touched his cock, then slowly began to take a firmer hold. He wanted to cry like a baby. He felt helpless, as though his body had come undone and she was fastening it. He felt as though he was bleeding somewhere. Then he felt powerful, gigantic. He would have kicked a door down.

AND THE WINNER IS...*drumroll* 

JAMES FREY for KATERINA! 

I would've went with the first one personally-Scoundrels-as those descriptions are really bad! Which do you think the winner should've been?


Blogmas-Best Urban Fantasy 2018


This topic is meant to be rom com but I don't read romance so I'm looking instead at the best urban fantasy reads from the year. I read a fair bit of urban fantasy and here is the best, excluding short stories and YA.

I did a full series catchup of the Kitty Norville books by Carrie Vaughn. I enjoyed the series and was reasonably satisfied by how it all worked out in the end. Theres are my favourites in that series!
 

I LOVED the second book in the Gavyn Donatti series by Sonya Bateman! I enjoyed the Iron Druid anthology which was released just before the last book in the series. Really enjoyed the first book in the Greta Helsing series and the Montague & Strong series.



The winner here would have to be....Sonya Bateman! I'm thrilled that she has started self publishing more books in this brilliant series!

Top Ten Tuesday-Dangerous Winter Settings pt 1

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.  http://www.thatartsyreadergirl.com/top-ten-tuesday/

NB: I don't follow or leave comments on blogs run by Google Plus, or DISQUS as I refuse to join something just to leave comments, and I won't allow them to follow new people, update my profile or post tweets 'on my behalf'. I won't comment on any blog that makes me sign in using another account. 

This week is cozy winter reads. I don't do 'cozy' so my list is 10 winter settings with danger!

1) John W Campbell Jr-Who goes there?

2) Jack Hunt-The Last Storm

3) JR Tate-Blizzard Warning

4) Taylor Adams-No Exit

5) Tom Harper-Zodiac Station

6) Matthew Iden-The Winter Over

7) Matthew Reilly-Ice Station

8) Stuart R West-Dread And Breakfast

9) Dean Koontz-Icebound

10) Keith C Blackmore-Mountain Man




Monday, 3 December 2018

Around The Blogs With Chuckles


We all enjoy snooping and lurking on other people's blogs right? Why not share those entertaining things you found with other readers and bloggers too! Welcome to Around the Blogs with Chuckles, where I take time out to show you some of my favourite blog posts from the previous seven days and link you up so you can check them out. 

This week! 

1) Dog False Advertising 
Barb shares a pet peeve about misleading covers!
http://bookertsfarm.blogspot.com/2018/11/book-discussion-one-of-my-biggest-pet.html 

2) ARCs 
Nikki looks at the purpose of the ARC and her thoughts about it.
https://breathesbooks.com/2018/11/26/discussion-arcs/ 

3) Book Recs and Widows review
Verushka shares some more books with us.
https://editingeverything.com/blog/2018/11/26/5books-book-recs-and-widows-yes-this-is-worthy-of-all-the-hype/ 

4) In A Nutshell-YA edition
Sam shares a few mini reviews.
http://weliveandbreathebooks.blogspot.com/2018/11/in-nutshell-ya-edition.html 

5) Book Review-Breach by WL Goodwater
Mogsy looks at an alternate history fantasy.
https://bibliosanctum.com/2018/11/27/book-review-breach-by-w-l-goodwater/  

6) Book Review-Night Shift by Robin Triggs
Barb looks at some snowy scares in Antarctica!
http://bookertsfarm.blogspot.com/2018/11/oh-weather-outside-is-frightfuland-so.html 

7) Book Review-Outpost by W Michael Gear 
Mogsy looks at the first book in a SF trilogy.
https://bibliosanctum.com/2018/11/29/rrscifimonth-book-review-outpost-by-w-michael-gear/ 

8) Mini Reviews
AJ looks at Revival and The Talented Mr Ripley. 
http://ajsterkel.blogspot.com/2018/11/mini-reviews-revival-talented-mr-ripley.html

9) Book Review-This is where it Ends by Marieke Nijkamp
Jessica looks at at a YA school shooting drama.
https://escape2fiction.wordpress.com/2018/12/01/review-this-is-where-it-ends-by-marieke-nijkamp/ 

10) December Book Releases
Erica shares her thoughts.
https://www.ericarobynreads.com/2018/11/2-december-book-releases.html 

11) Boost Your Immune System This Winter
Give your body the best chance to fight infection!
http://readynutrition.com/resources/immune-system-boosting-nutrients-you-may-need-during-fall-and-winter_27112018/ 


Blogmas-Best Short Stories 2018


Today's topic is Best Cried My Eyes Out but this topic isn't relevant to any book that I read this year so I'm going to look at the best short stories I read this year.

These are books connected to series by favourite authors. This book is book #1.5 in The Deathspeaker Codex by Sonya Bateman. I read and loved the first book and this 60 page story was really good. I hope to read the rest of this series next year if time allows. The other two are spin off books from The Iron Druid series.


The following books were the first short installments of mini series that I liked reading.


The following books were short stories by new to me authors that made me interested in reading on to the actual novels in the series!


These books were stand alone short stories that I liked!


Time to pick my favourite...I reckon it's a toss up between Money Back Guarantee and Dance of the Dead! 

Did you read any good short stories and novellas this year?