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Kink: Stories by R.O. Kwon & Garth Greenwell
Erotica can get a bad, Fifty Shades of Grey rep, but Kink showcases the beauty of libidinous words in a brilliant anthology of short fiction
★★★★★ Book title: Kink: Stories Author: R.O. Kwon (Editor) & Garth Greenwell (Editor)
The crack of a crop against soft skin in a dark dungeon, or the aggressive hate-fuck between lesbian and male friend, or the rough sex to mask the mental pain of an unspooling relationship, or the sharp snap of scissor play. You can take your pick from the riches splayed across the pages of
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It has been nearly a year now since most of us have enjoyed a book in any of the usual places: a coffee shop, on a commute, in an airplane, on a beach. But that hasn t stopped people from reading â in fact, the opposite. Speaking personally, 2020 made me
extra grateful for all the moments I spent with paper and ink, away from yet another screen containing no good news.
Now we seem on the cusp of what is hopefully the beginning of the end, and it becomes possible again to imagine reading books in places like coffee shops or on transcontinental flights. But our to-be-read piles might be starting to look a little shorter after all those months in quarantine.