Quote de jour
“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
~Oscar Wilde

I'm attempting to read two books with sex as a theme or undercurrent. Attempting is a way of saying I don't have time to make more than a stab with a stiletto heel. One is fiction, the other nonfiction. Both have enticing titles. Adventures in the Orgasmatron: How The Sexual Revolution Came To America by Christopher Turner is a scholarly but entertaining bio on Wilhelm Reich, the psychoanalyst and former protegee of Freud's. The title is misleading but sex sells. Reich never used the word orgasmatron. That came from Woody Allen's film "Sleeper". I've long admired Reich as a pioneer of body-centered therapy and the concept of emotions creating body armoring. Reich was grossly misunderstand and died in prison as maligned flake. I would imagine hard-core Reichians would take issue with this book but I enjoyed what I've read so far.
 Another great (but often used) title is No More Mr. Nice Guy Howard Jacobson's raunchy new novel. He won the prestigious Booker Prize last year for his novel The Finkler Question and his new one is funny is a droll smartass way. It follows the adventures a man's midlife crisis after being kicked out by his porn writer girlfriend.



This week's photo montage of magazines inspired me but they invariably get lost. It's no wonder I rack up mega fines at my library. This week: $25.00. It's worth it.