by yoursl | Aug 14, 2014 | Erotic Literature |
I grew up enjoying frequent visits to the library. I was educated by some of the best high school teachers and college professors available to me. Proper grammar, correct punctuation and spelling, and strong word choice were lessons that were taught to me from an early age. I cannot remember a time when I did not own a dictionary and a thesaurus, in hardback copies no less. I learned to read when I was a toddler and was reading at an advanced level by the time I entered public school. I had my own subscription to National Geographic when I just five-years-old. I exhausted the available supply of books in the elementary library by the fourth grade. The nearest bookstores were more than 50 miles away from my childhood home. My mother joined a book-of-the-month club to help keep me in reading material. When I was 15-years-old and on winter break from school, I begged my mom to order a book by Diana Gabaldon called Outlander. I wanted to read this book because it took place in Scotland, which was one of many dream travel locations inspired by an issue of National Geographic a decade prior. My mom ordered the book, which contained explicit language and erotic scenes as well as strong words. I had to stop reading every few pages to use the dictionary. I devoured all 627 pages in less than three days. Outlander was my first voyage into historic romance and erotic literature. I fell in love with how beautifully the book is written and how intellectual it is. From Outlander, I branched out into tawdry...
