An Evening of Romantic Lovemaking

An Evening of Romantic Lovemaking
Author: Ben Slotky
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2022-10-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1628974273

An Evening of Romantic Lovemaking is the tale of a would-be standup comedian/terrorist as he hilariously and heart-wrenchingly performs his last act in front of an audience who may or may not be there. Curtis White calls it “both the funniest and one of the saddest novels I’ve ever read” and “a work of comic genius. While comparisons to Gilbert Sorrentino, Mark Leyner, and Flann O’Brien will be made, Slotky’s voice is entirely his own and one you’ll not soon forget.”

An Evening of Romantic Lovemaking

An Evening of Romantic Lovemaking
Author: Ben Slotky
Publisher: American Literature
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2022-07-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781628974010

An Evening of Romantic Lovemaking is the tale of a would-be standup comedian/terrorist as he hilariously and heart-wrenchingly performs his last act in front of an audience who may or may not be there. Curtis White calls it "both the funniest and one of the saddest novels I've ever read" and "a work of comic genius. While comparisons to Gilbert Sorrentino, Mark Leyner, and Flann O'Brien will be made, Slotky's voice is entirely his own and one you'll not soon forget."

How to Fall in Love with Anyone

How to Fall in Love with Anyone
Author: Mandy Len Catron
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2017-06-27
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1501137468

“A beautifully written and well-researched cultural criticism as well as an honest memoir” (Los Angeles Review of Books) from the author of the popular New York Times essay, “To Fall in Love with Anyone, Do This,” explores the romantic myths we create and explains how they limit our ability to achieve and sustain intimacy. What really makes love last? Does love ever work the way we say it does in movies and books and Facebook posts? Or does obsessing over those love stories hurt our real-life relationships? When her parents divorced after a twenty-eight year marriage and her own ten-year relationship ended, those were the questions that Mandy Len Catron wanted to answer. In a series of candid, vulnerable, and wise essays that takes a closer look at what it means to love someone, be loved, and how we present our love to the world, “Catron melds science and emotion beautifully into a thoughtful and thought-provoking meditation” (Bookpage). She delves back to 1944, when her grandparents met in a coal mining town in Appalachia, to her own dating life as a professor in Vancouver. She uses biologists’ research into dopamine triggers to ask whether the need to love is an innate human drive. She uses literary theory to show why we prefer certain kinds of love stories. She urges us to question the unwritten scripts we follow in relationships and looks into where those scripts come from. And she tells the story of how she decided to test an experiment that she’d read about—where the goal was to create intimacy between strangers using a list of thirty-six questions—and ended up in the surreal situation of having millions of people following her brand-new relationship. “Perfect fodder for the romantic and the cynic in all of us” (Booklist), How to Fall in Love with Anyone flips the script on love. “Clear-eyed and full of heart, it is mandatory reading for anyone coping with—or curious about—the challenges of contemporary courtship” (The Toronto Star).

52 Romantic Evenings

52 Romantic Evenings
Author: Liya Lev Oertel
Publisher: Running Press Adult
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2001-01-01
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780671318659

Spice Up Your Love Life! Unlike other romance advice books, which provide sketchy hints or long lectures, this book contains fun ideas you can really use! In it you'll find complete plans for a year's worth of romance-filled evenings, including locations, attire, food, drink, music, décor, and much more. You'll also find tips on surprising your partner, saving (or splurging) money, coping with children and busy schedules, and acting romantic. Ideas include: Love by Chocolate: The seductive flavor of chocolate makes it the perfect treat for any romantic occasion. Go ahead and indulge your passion for chocolate while indulging your passion for each other! Pampering Your Baby: Everyone loves to be pampered, but few ever give or receive this gift. Make your partner the center of your universe and enjoy how good it makes you both feel. Recreate Your First Date: Remember your first date? The way your eyes kept meeting, the way your thoughts clicked, how he made you laugh...why not live that special event once again? Lingerie Fashion Show: Lingerie can really make sparks fly. But why settle for just one sexy outfit? Go all the way and put on a lingerie fashion show for each other. Tribute to Aphrodite: Invite your love goddess or god to join you at a "feast for the senses fit for the gods."

Consuming the Romantic Utopia

Consuming the Romantic Utopia
Author: Eva Illouz
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2023-04-28
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0520917995

To what extent are our most romantic moments determined by the portrayal of love in film and on TV? Is a walk on a moonlit beach a moment of perfect romance or simply a simulation of the familiar ideal seen again and again on billboards and movie screens? In her unique study of American love in the twentieth century, Eva Illouz unravels the mass of images that define our ideas of love and romance, revealing that the experience of "true" love is deeply embedded in the experience of consumer capitalism. Illouz studies how individual conceptions of love overlap with the world of clichés and images she calls the "Romantic Utopia." This utopia lives in the collective imagination of the nation and is built on images that unite amorous and economic activities in the rituals of dating, lovemaking, and marriage. Since the early 1900s, advertisers have tied the purchase of beauty products, sports cars, diet drinks, and snack foods to success in love and happiness. Illouz reveals that, ultimately, every cliché of romance—from an intimate dinner to a dozen red roses—is constructed by advertising and media images that preach a democratic ethos of consumption: material goods and happiness are available to all. Engaging and witty, Illouz's study begins with readings of ads, songs, films, and other public representations of romance and concludes with individual interviews in order to analyze the ways in which mass messages are internalized. Combining extensive historical research, interviews, and postmodern social theory, Illouz brings an impressive scholarship to her fascinating portrait of love in America.

The Intimacy Maelstrom

The Intimacy Maelstrom
Author: Linda Leven
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 800
Release: 2012-05-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1469180421

This is a story about relationshipsbonds of passion between men and women. The drama revolves around six individuals, their amorous intimacies, and the unperceived wounds and psychological mutilation they sustain as they plummet into the Intimacy Maelstrom. Dmitri is a self-absorbed, young Russian intent on achieving the American dream, and thinks little of marriage and fatherhood. In contrast, unattractive Irina desperately fears becoming an old-maid. Her work colleague, Caroline, older, sophisticated, despite having a soul-mate, is bored and seeking breathtaking romance. In his twilight years, Dr. Ramirez is dispirited in his burned-out marriage, but believes he is too old to alter his life, until meeting sexy Claire, a patient. Unfortunately Nina, his wife, is an old-fashioned woman who believes only marriage, children, and family bring fulfillment. Into this mlange comes Ronny, her sonhandsome, sexy, a sensualistwho adores women, but in his own aberrant, warped manner. The author paints, in vivid colors, a picture of tormented lives entangled in passionate but toxic, perverted, unhealthy relationships. Although the lovers may strip themselves of their lacerating liaisons, do they walk away unscathed and unscarred? The novel illumines the imperceptible damage and mayhem sustained when our lives and happiness depend upon fickle, unreliable love from others. The bold, flaming, shattering scenes portrayed may have one gasping for fresh air and sunshine.

Return to Forever

Return to Forever
Author: Mark Salvatore Pitifer
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 721
Release: 2013-10-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1475999917

Once you complete this journey your eyes will be open FOREVER! - MIA CALABRESE The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary, and even humble individual -M.Scott Peck.... Nino Jones, an elderly homeless man from New York City, agrees to join a group of Heavenly mercenaries who are risking their eternities to pull off one of the most heroic challenges of all time. The target is Satan himself, and the future of the entire civilized world hangs in the balance. Follow Nino as he tours the magnificant Kingdom of Forever, the devastation of the Outerdarkness, and the absolute horrors of Hell. Listen as he learns about the origins of the cosmos and the meaning of human existence from such characters as Albert Einstein, Martin Luther King Jr., Pontius Pilate, King Solomon, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Malcolm X, Virgin Mary, and many others. Flee with Nino through the streets of Manhattan as he is pursued by demons who are trying to prevent him from delivering his holy message, the truth about who we are, where we come from, and why we must RETURN TO FOREVER!

Aidan's Love

Aidan's Love
Author: Christine Young
Publisher: Rogue Phoenix Press
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2019-09-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1624204724

Whispers of Love Aidan McLellan has loved Blade MacPherson since she first set eyes on him as a young girl. Spontaneous, wild and eager to grow up, Aidan haunts his waking thoughts day and night, insinuating herself into his life. With her fiery red hair and sparkling sapphire eyes, she seizes Blade's heart even while he tries to resist the innocent child until she becomes a woman. Whispers of Courage Blade has waited what seems a lifetime to claim the woman who captures his heart as a little girl. Claiming his inheritance before his younger brother takes what is rightfully his, Blade must convince Aidan of his sincerity after years of avoidance and wed her before his father dies so he can return home, securing his rightful place. Everything is put to the test when his life as well as Aidan's is threatened by the man who once called him brother.

Getting the Love You Want

Getting the Love You Want
Author: Harville Hendrix
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2001
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780805068955

I know of no better guide for couples who genuinely desire a maturing relationship.M. Scott Peck, author of The Road Less Traveled A remarkable bookthe most incisive and persuasive I have ever read on the knotty problems of marriage relationships. Ann Roberts, former president, Rockefeller Family Fund

How Can We Light a Fire When the Kids Are Driving Us Crazy?

How Can We Light a Fire When the Kids Are Driving Us Crazy?
Author: Ellen Kreidman
Publisher: Villard
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2013-03-06
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0307829979

Remember a time when you and your mate weren’t too tired for romance? When you could take off on the spur of the moment for a glamorous evening or sexy weekend? Before listening for the patter of little feet put a damper on lovemaking? Believe it or not, you’re about to recapture the rapture! From the New York Times bestselling author of the runaway hit Light His Fire and number-one Light Her Fire comes a new self-help guide for men and women that fills a universal need. In How Can We Light a Fire When the Kids Are Driving Us Crazy?, love expert Ellen Kreidman conclusively proves that passion and parenthood can go hand in hand. Through observations, success stories, and techniques that have come out of her famous seminars, she shows married couples exactly how to light their fires and achieve the greatest possible level of emotional and sexual fulfillment. According to Kreidman, rekindling the sparks begins by acknowledging three core principles: • If you don’t have an affair with your mate, you risk the possibility that someone else will. • The best gift you can ever give your children is having a lasting relationship with your partner. • The happiest, most well-adjusted children come from a home in which the parents love each other. From that springboard, How Can We Light a Fire When the Kids Are Driving Us Crazy? goes on to offer sage advice and creative suggestions that encourage moms and dads to be loving partners, too—from homework assignments that teach you, your mate, and your children how to become better and more sensitive communicators, through a genuinely innovative list of “fifty-one ways to light a fire,” to two pages of stickers for scheduling and anticipating romantic rendezvous. And the Parents’ and Children’s Bills of Rights will keep the home fires burning while preventing meltdown. Whether the problem is finding a capable baby-sitter, the advisability of letting the kids into your bed, or discovering the best places to make love (home is the least arousing), you’ll find a wealth of effective answers here. Filled with the wit, compassion, and basic smarts that are Ellen Kreidman’s trademarks, How Can We Light a Fire When the Kids Are Driving Us Crazy? can make a marvelous difference in family happiness and harmony—as it restores the sizzle of courtship to married life.