Fifty Shades of Red
I’m going to admit something that up until now only four people know…I read all the books in the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy. I went so far as to read them on my Kindle so nobody would know what I was reading. And I read all three books in five days because I couldn’t put the darn things down!
Why the public admission? A friend of mine described the reaction his 78-year-old mother had to reading “the book.” She raced home after her hospital volunteer work to get back to her reading, staying up into the wee hours of the morning . She also wound up sharing emails about the book with the female friends of her son who had read the book. I figured if she was happy to admit it and talk about it with others, I should be able to come clean, too!
I had to strategically plan my reading. I knew I had a limited window of time before my summer class started; once that began any potential reading time was going to be taken up with class reading, class assignments, and studying. I was a woman on a mission! I have always been a fast reader so that definitely helped with the process. I also must admit that I eventually started kind of only skimming the “sexy” parts of the books to get back to the storyline; I wanted to know what ultimately happened to Anastasia and Christian! Enough with the debauchery already–how would the story end?
So my apologies to my daughters and my parents, who will learn about what I did on my summer vacation when they read this post. If any friends have read Fifty Shades of Grey and want to talk about it with me, please let me know. But be prepared: If we talk in person about it, I will likely be fifty shades of red.
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