My hubby loves Fried
Green Tomatoes, and I frankly hated it and couldn’t go further than the
first 30 minutes. Luckily for me, my taste in movies doesn’t affect his love
for me.
One of the biggest groups of man to man erotic romance on
Goodreads is in the middle of their summer event, I have mentioned it here
before: Love is Always Write. And Love is always right indeed, but it does not
imply that we love everything that is written.
Just for kicks, I went through a hundred stories of the
listing and found an esoteric 38 % of stories with at least one lone star (some
had more). I’m glad I was having a glass(es) of sangria and not shots of
tequila for every lonely twinkle in my experiment.
I didn’t feel morbid enough to check if the same members had
given all these single shiners. That would just be too creepy, and I was in
cemetery scavenger territory already, lurking in the shadows of variables. One
story though, suspiciously didn’t want to show any rating details (there was
some crazy juju at work in that one).
By the way, the guy on the cover of Half Baked Promises is a total hottie…
38 might not sound like a strong number to you, but taking
into consideration that these are free stories and each author/member took
his/her time to work on this project, seems a little unfair. Anywho, as much as my sangria inflamed
heart wants to feel wronged, I just remember the wise words of my husband, “If
you were rating Fried Green Tomatoes,
how many stars would you give it?”
And that, my lovely friends, is his very subtle way of telling
me to shut the fuck up and stop whining and stand by my work. I loved it when I
wrote it, and (we have been down this road before) not everyone is going to
love it, no matter how much sweat, spunk or beauty I have thrown into it.
Yeah, we all have the right to give (and receive) one stars
because that is the essence of life; what keeps this crazy marble rotating: the
simply and beautifully sublime fact that we all don’t have the same taste in
everything.
The little lady would say “bollocks to that!” But, in this
one, I have to disagree with her.
PS. The cowboy is just eye candy.
