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Tag Archives: teenager
Less Is More
In my article yesterday, I spoke about sex scenes in fiction, and how what was once taboo is now being accepted with such grandiose openness, with books like ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’, aka ‘mommy porn’ as referred to by the … Continue reading
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Whatever Happened To Less Is More
The other day my friend’s fifteen year old daughter asked me if I have read ‘Fifty Shades Of Grey’. When I said no, she went on to wonder whether it is like the Harlequin books or erotica, or porn. I … Continue reading
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Tagged author, blog, book, books, creative writing, dreams, Ellen DeGeneres, emotion, family, feelings, fiction, Fifty Shades Of Grey, film, Gustave Flaubert, ideas, imagination, joy, kiss, life, literature, love, Nicholas Sparks, novel, Paris, people, publishing, racing, reading, romance, scene, sex, story, teenager, thoughts, tweet, words, write, writer, writing
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It’s Bad Enough
Have you ever woken up early one morning at dawn and quite unexpectedly noticed the twilight? Or some other day quite unexpectedly you saw a sunset, a starry sky, a scenery or the horizon, so beautiful, so exquisite that a … Continue reading
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Prejudice!
Albert Einstein wrote: “Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age 18.” According to The Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary: A) Prejudice is an opinion, like or dislike, formed before one has adequate knowledge. B) Opinion is judgment not … Continue reading
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