I'm A Shameless Man Stealer!

It's true! I stole this guy from the The Goddess Blogs If you want to hop over there, you'll need to scroll down to July 6th entry by Karen Hawkins. But seriously, how could I resist?

He's hot! And he's patriotic!

Sigh...so what was I going to talk about? Oh right, I'm reading a 2005 Young Adult Vampire book by Stephenie Meyer called TWILIGHT. My friend Michelle Thorne gave me this book. I'm about a half to two thirds through it and I now realize I have been missing out! This book is really different and captivating.

Yet there's an innocence to it too. In fact, I feel kind of WRONG for talking about this book next to a sizzling hot picture of a hunk. But it does kind of illustrate what I've been thinking as I read this book. I think the whole erotic market has been saturated and now readers are over it. Not that hot books aren't still selling, they are and I think they will continue to sell. But readers are demanding MORE that just sex and sexual tension. They want variety. they want choices. And if they choose to read a hot book, there'd better be a really good story there and the sex had better be a part of the story, otherwise, readers are bored.

I think I'll be reading more Young Adult books! But I'm still enjoying the scenery of a hot, patriotic man.