2008-03-18

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2008-03-18 11:29 am

I'm Not Your Steppin' Stone by Shiuko Kano

Sakai has a passion for well endowed women, really if you look at them they border on the fat type, but everyone has his taste... And when he falls in love for Izumi's sister, it's with his great regret that he is informed that the girl only dated well cultured men, and Sakai is a drop out from school who works as construction worker. But Izumi makes a bargaign with him: he will help Sakai to pass the test for college's admittance and Sakai in exchange will have sex with Izumi.

Even if Izumi has never had before a gay relationship, he is very willing to go on with the bargain: it's only sex, isn't it? But when he realizes that maybe he is more involved of what he thought, he chickens out and tries to break with Izumi. But Izumi is not willing to let go.

In comparison to other Shiuko Kano's manga I have read, this one is very explicit: it's like, since the relationship started as a pure sex thing, that the drawning needs to be more explicit and less romantic. And also the style is a pretty more "comic" and less "realistic". I like a lot Izumi's looks, and a little less Sakai's. Most of the time Sakai is too extreme, but sometime I can see an almost naivee's looks in him.

A manga very explicit which manages to be also funny and lighthearted.

http://www.amazon.com/Your-Steppin-Stone-Yaoi-Shameless/dp/1934129127/

Waiting Reading List:

http://www.librarything.com/catalog_bottom.php?tag=waiting+reading+list&view=elisa.rolle

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2008-03-18 11:29 am

I'm Not Your Steppin' Stone by Shiuko Kano

Sakai has a passion for well endowed women, really if you look at them they border on the fat type, but everyone has his taste... And when he falls in love for Izumi's sister, it's with his great regret that he is informed that the girl only dated well cultured men, and Sakai is a drop out from school who works as construction worker. But Izumi makes a bargaign with him: he will help Sakai to pass the test for college's admittance and Sakai in exchange will have sex with Izumi.

Even if Izumi has never had before a gay relationship, he is very willing to go on with the bargain: it's only sex, isn't it? But when he realizes that maybe he is more involved of what he thought, he chickens out and tries to break with Izumi. But Izumi is not willing to let go.

In comparison to other Shiuko Kano's manga I have read, this one is very explicit: it's like, since the relationship started as a pure sex thing, that the drawning needs to be more explicit and less romantic. And also the style is a pretty more "comic" and less "realistic". I like a lot Izumi's looks, and a little less Sakai's. Most of the time Sakai is too extreme, but sometime I can see an almost naivee's looks in him.

A manga very explicit which manages to be also funny and lighthearted.

http://www.amazon.com/Your-Steppin-Stone-Yaoi-Shameless/dp/1934129127/

Waiting Reading List:

http://www.librarything.com/catalog_bottom.php?tag=waiting+reading+list&view=elisa.rolle

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2008-03-18 11:54 am

Body Language by Aki Morimoto

I made an error: I bought this book thinking it was a graphic novel (the cover is pretty cute) and instead it's a yaoi novel. It's my first time I read a true japanese yaoi novel and my feelings are puzzled.

Overall I have to say that I like it, but it's clearly a novel written by a woman for women. Why I say this? Cause, after reading hundreds and hundreds of gay romance, I know certaing things about gay love (maybe more than I want) and there are some sex scene in this book that are impossible, "realistic" impossible. But still it's almost an erotic novel, with a lot of sex, and I think that it reaches its goal, to entertain you for some enjoyable hours.

Kanae is a beautiful guy, almost too pretty that he can be mistaken for a girl. He is an out of town college student, and so, without long time friends, and being helplessly shy, he has made a reputation of cold beauty. Rumors say he is bisexual and that he is an host. Instead Kanae is virgin and he has chosen to ignore all the rumors without denying them nor confirming. But one day Yuuichi, the most notorious womanizer of the university, decides to be his knight in shining armor and to rescue him from all the people who mock him. And Kanae falls in love at first sight for this handsome guy with an incorrigible behaviour.

They are friends but Kanae yearns for more and what he has the chance, he proposes to Yuuichi: better some days as his lover than a life as his friend, in this way he will have the memories to warm him. He knows that Yuuichi's interest is easily lost after some days he makes sex with a girl, and he is surprise to realize that their relationship grews steady more the days pass. But Kanae is not sure of Yuuichi's love, and he counts the days to their break.

As I said, there is lot of sex in this novel: the two guys can't be in the same scene without making sex and they are the only two characters of the novel, so, you can understand how much sex there is. But I find it exciting and not boring, so, if you start reading this novel knowing what you will find and not searching to noblize it to something more, it's a pretty good read.

Amazon: Body Language (Yaoi Novel)
Amazon Kindle: Body Language (Yaoi Novel)
Paperback: 250 pages
Publisher: Digital Manga Publishing; English Ed edition (March 11, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1569707677
ISBN-13: 978-1569707678

Reading List: http://www.librarything.com/catalog_bottom.php?tag=reading+list&view=elisa.rolle

reviews_and_ramblings: (Default)
2008-03-18 11:54 am

Body Language by Aki Morimoto

I made an error: I bought this book thinking it was a graphic novel (the cover is pretty cute) and instead it's a yaoi novel. It's my first time I read a true japanese yaoi novel and my feelings are puzzled.

Overall I have to say that I like it, but it's clearly a novel written by a woman for women. Why I say this? Cause, after reading hundreds and hundreds of gay romance, I know certaing things about gay love (maybe more than I want) and there are some sex scene in this book that are impossible, "realistic" impossible. But still it's almost an erotic novel, with a lot of sex, and I think that it reaches its goal, to entertain you for some enjoyable hours.

Kanae is a beautiful guy, almost too pretty that he can be mistaken for a girl. He is an out of town college student, and so, without long time friends, and being helplessly shy, he has made a reputation of cold beauty. Rumors say he is bisexual and that he is an host. Instead Kanae is virgin and he has chosen to ignore all the rumors without denying them nor confirming. But one day Yuuichi, the most notorious womanizer of the university, decides to be his knight in shining armor and to rescue him from all the people who mock him. And Kanae falls in love at first sight for this handsome guy with an incorrigible behaviour.

They are friends but Kanae yearns for more and what he has the chance, he proposes to Yuuichi: better some days as his lover than a life as his friend, in this way he will have the memories to warm him. He knows that Yuuichi's interest is easily lost after some days he makes sex with a girl, and he is surprise to realize that their relationship grews steady more the days pass. But Kanae is not sure of Yuuichi's love, and he counts the days to their break.

As I said, there is lot of sex in this novel: the two guys can't be in the same scene without making sex and they are the only two characters of the novel, so, you can understand how much sex there is. But I find it exciting and not boring, so, if you start reading this novel knowing what you will find and not searching to noblize it to something more, it's a pretty good read.

Amazon: Body Language (Yaoi Novel)

Reading List:

http://www.librarything.com/catalog_bottom.php?tag=reading+list&view=elisa.rolle

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2008-03-18 11:29 pm

Whatever Happened to Laurie McBain?

Laurie McBain (b. October 15, 1950) was a best-selling U.S.American writer of seven historical romance novels from 1975 to 1985. Her novels Devil's Desire and Moonstruck Madness each sold over a million copies.

Many believe that Laurie McBain was a gentleman. She wasn't a man, but perhaps she wrote with her father. When he died, she quit writing.

Laurie McBain wrote a few novels set in less popular times. “Moonstruck Madness” is early to mid-1700s, along with the two sequesl, Chance The Winds Of Fortune and Dark before the Rising Sun. She also wrote a civil war novel which was one of the best ever written, When The Splendor Falls. Hers are not your average romances, but contain so much more in detailed plot, setting, and character development.

To read more:

http://rosaromance.splinder.com/post/16394951/
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2008-03-18 11:29 pm

Whatever Happened to Laurie McBain?

Laurie McBain (b. October 15, 1950) was a best-selling U.S.American writer of seven historical romance novels from 1975 to 1985. Her novels Devil's Desire and Moonstruck Madness each sold over a million copies.

Many believe that Laurie McBain was a gentleman. She wasn't a man, but perhaps she wrote with her father. When he died, she quit writing.

Laurie McBain wrote a few novels set in less popular times. “Moonstruck Madness” is early to mid-1700s, along with the two sequesl, Chance The Winds Of Fortune and Dark before the Rising Sun. She also wrote a civil war novel which was one of the best ever written, When The Splendor Falls. Hers are not your average romances, but contain so much more in detailed plot, setting, and character development.

To read more:

http://rosaromance.splinder.com/post/16394951/