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Post about Salt & Spice 03
This is the text related to the new book.s
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Why Intelligent Women Still Need Love Stories
At some point, many intelligent women were handed an invisible hierarchy of reading. Serious books went at the top. Love stories were placed somewhere lower down, beside chocolate and other pleasures we were apparently allowed only if we called them guilty. I have never understood the guilt. A woman can follow world affairs, run a company, quote Sappho and still care very much whether two fictional women manage to kiss before one of them does something catastrophically noble. The heart is not the remedial class of the mind. This is especially true for readers looking for lesbian romance with emotional depth: stories that offer pleasure without insulting our intelligence, and…
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Welcome to My Skala Online There ought to be a Greek word for the moment you arrive somewhere new and feel, rather inconveniently, that you have come home. Skala Eressos can do that to a woman. Perhaps it is the Aegean light, which makes even an ordinary glass of wine look faintly momentous. Perhaps it is the sea, or Sappho’s Head keeping watch at the end of the beach. Perhaps it is the simple relief of being in a place where women loving women is neither an announcement nor a problem to be solved. Whatever the reason, Skala has a way of loosening the knots we arrive with. Welcome, then,…
