Dark dark dark.... Via Darjeeling !

Kay Kay Menon, Rajat Kapur and Vinay Pathak an amazing trio that was driving me crazy all this while...untill I saw the end product... a thriller come story telling tale -gone wrong!

The plot revolves around a couple thats on honeymoon to kalimpong,on the day of their return to their city the husband(Kay Kay) goes missing under threatening circumstances and the wife (Sonali Kulkarni) is left behind to deal with the rest..... Enters Vinay Pathak as the investigating officer who gets to know that the lady has doubts about the taxi driver (earlier shown to have had a fight with Kay kay) and a mystery man (who has been following her through out their mooning !)

That is the end of it...and then comes in part 2 of the plot where a group of friends comprising a jounalist, tv actress, film maker, housewife and a police officer meet up on a rainy night and begin to give their dimensions to the above story told by Vinay Pathak. Each one comes with a story that almost gets on to you and makes u restless... it just gets a little tolerable in the end when the plot is in the court of Mr.Pathak and he makes it a little better and interesting.
During this adda session, the different versions begin to blend into problems in everyone's personal lives. And it brings the mystery to Kolkata one night, via Darjeeling.
A story told by different people changes perspectives and colour as and when they are narrated. The storytellers' vocations and personalities come into play as they narrate someone else's story.



Ahhh and not to forget a missing duo here.... two friends who havent joined in as yet due to rains.
And an abrupt exit of the cop from the party and an expected predictable entry of Sonali Kulkarni and Pravven Dabas ( shown as mystery man) !!

And then the very predictable... The cop forgets his phone at the party and comes back to get it and guess who opens the door... yes Ms.Kulkarni ! And the screen goes blank! The end...

So now the director has left it all to our discretion to decide whether Mr.Cop's story was true or was he just unleashing his imagination....

In my opinion, Kay Kay never went missitng! It was all a story ...the rest is for you to decide...

Kay Kay n Vinay Pathak are good like always and rest fine... Sonali kulkarni really managed to get on me!

One interesting observation. The movie has a subject very similar to Kurosawa's "RASHOMON". In fact it's a modernized version of the Black & White movie and in one scene Rajat Kapoor can be seen holding the DVD of this classic in his hand. May be it's the director's way of giving tribute to the master film-maker.

Abba re-lived, Mama Mia...

If you happen to be an ardent fan of the historic band ABBA and really wish to relive the glory then watching the movie 'Mama Mia' starring Meryl Streep(Dona)and her three long lost boy friends... Colin Firth(harry), Pierce Brosnan(Sam) and Stellan(Bill)...is what you should be doing.



The movie kicks of with Dona working hard on her hotel and her daugher's wedding. As the guests fly in includidng her old best friends...and band members Tanya n Ali, she also gets to meet an uninvited lot of three hot gentlemen-her boy friends from past.... invited by her daughter to know who her dad is...
( oh yah, Dona doesnt really know who the child belongs to, as she met all three within days)....

and there starts the comedy and sweet drama of it all.



What is to look out for in the movie is merly's acting and the amazingly done ABBA hits! Trust me they ll make u move... and a lot. And try not to leave before watchin the credits cause its really funny!



Did i tell you, the daughter calls of the wedding at the church just because she realizes that her boy friend wasnt ready for it and its mom Dona who makes it with the ever hot Sam!



Neednt feel sad for Harry cause he is gay and Bil,l for he gets one of Dona's friend.



All in all a wonderful muscial tribute to Abba and a complete juicy time pass movie, hmm quite bollywood in nature!



P.s- women only (My Mr.Doctor din quite enjoy it)

Drop Dead Beautiful, Jackie Collins

Hmmm, to start with let me just give you the climax of the novels comprising some 86 chapters, Keys survives and Lucky Santangelo lives on, the one who dies is the drug lord Anthony Bonar!

This is sad end of a novel that tries to hold you for a long time. Reading this one was not much different from reading the previous ones by Jackie, but what she really needs to know now is the time for her lovely Lucky to die and yes ofcourse her father Gino who is going strong at 95. It starts with involoving a lot many characters and leaving your memory with a long list to be brushed off before begining the secong round of it. The hunk actor here fails to make you lust after him, so does his suprestar much older girlfriend.... If it wasnt for tasteful language and binding metaphors n fallacies trust me I would ve so left it in the middle.

The only thing that kept me going was my urgent need to find out it MAX (Lucky's spoilt daughter) ever gets away from her internet freak and if the huge new celebrity hotle Keys is ever blown off...

It left me wondering if she's starting down the road to relying on her name to sell a book rather than making sure that she will keep the readers happy.

I am so not anti Jackie but this was so like getting back to Mills n Boon and one of Sidney Sheldon's. The usual Jackie Collins lustre is also missing. I so wish LUCKY would just become how she was in the previous one ! Is Jackie listening?

The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka

When I begin to read Kafka there is one question that always comes up in my head, Am I doing the right thing by starting another? This question just comes not because of some catastrophe caused by the predcessor but with the mind doubting if I would be able to do justice to just another one of his....

'As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous vermin. '

Kafka's sentences often deliver an unexpected impact just before the period—that being the finalizing meaning and focus. This is achieved due to the construction of certain sentences in German which require that the verb be positioned at the end of the sentence. Such constructions are not duplicable in English, so it is up to the translator to provide the reader with the same effect found in the original text.

The story moves forward with how greg n his family deal with this metamorphosis....

Book Review - Trespass,Valerie Martin

Trespass is a beautifully written and complex tale of love, jealousy, transgression, forgiveness, identity, and war. Brendan and Chloe Dale are the epitome of upper middle-class America living a very comfortable life in rural upstate New York. All seems well until their son, Toby, a student at NYU, returns home with his new girlfriend and Croatian refugee, Salome. Chloe is immediately suspicious of her son’s new-found love and in return Salome displays hostility towards Toby’s parents. The mistrust and tension is heightened when Salome falls pregnant. We are then drawn into Salome’s violent and war-torn past which is cleverly juxtaposed against the backdrop of middle-class America. As the book’s title suggests the story is about invasion on many different levels and, in particular, how each individual character deals with their own personal intrusions. It makes for a very thought-provoking read indeed.

Synopsis

Toby and Salome are a young, modern couple living in New York, but their backgrounds are world apart. He is a middle-class all-American boy from a family of academics; she is a Croatian refugee raised in New Orleans.When Salome unexpectedly becomes pregnant, they decide to spend their lives together and hastily marry. But finding a way to reconcile their families and pasts proves a difficult task. Toby's mother's deep-seated mistrust of Salome causes tension, leaving her unable to accept her new daughter-in-law. But Salome' s past, full of dangerous secrets, is more horrifying than any of them could imagine - and the violence that destroyed her homeland is far from over...

About the Author

Valerie Martin is the author of two collections of short fiction and six novels, including Italian Fever, The Great Divorce and Mary Reilly [the Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde story, from the viewpoint of a housemaid, which was filmed with Julia Roberts and John Malkovich. Her most recent book is a non-fiction work about St Francis of Assisi: Salvation: Scenes from the Life of St Francis. She lives in upstate New York.

Inspiring !

The best quotations


-Every person you meet is changed by the meeting.

-You alone have the power to determine how.

In our struggle for freedom, truth is the only weapon we possess.
--His Holiness the Dalai Lama of Tibet

The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.
- Orson Scott Card - Xenocide

The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.--Henry Miller, novelist (1891-1980)

The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.--Henry Miller, novelist (1891-1980)

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors, so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.
--Carl Sagan2 years of my life.



Man's life does not commence in the womb and never ends in the grave.--Charan Singh, mystic (1916-1990)


I believe that it doesn't take a village to raise a child-it takes a parent with the guts to stand up to the kid and spank his butt and say "NO!" when it's necessary to do so.
--Ted Nugent


All knowledge comes from experience. All the rest is just information.
--Albert Einstein



For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
--Robert Louis Stevenson

If we do not find anything pleasant, at least we will find something new.
--Voltaire, Candide

The story the oversoul tells me fits all the facts that I see. Your story, in which I'm endlessly deceived, can also explain all those
facts. I have no way of knowing that your story is not true-but you have no way of knowing that my story isn't true. So I will choose the one that I love. I will choose the one that, if it's true, makes this reality one worth living in. I'll act as if the life I hope for is real life,and the life that disgusts me-your life, your view of life-is the lie."
--Orson Scott Card - The Call of Earth

The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.
--Orson Scott Card - Xenocide

A man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of life getting his living. --Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862)

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
-- Richard P. Feynman

Si tu fais des images, ne parle pas, n'écris pas ne t'analyse pas, ne réponds à aucune question. [if you take photos, don't speak, don't write, don't analyze yourself, and don't answer any questions.]
--Robert Doisneau

The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.--Alan Ashley-Pitt

Fears over tomorrow and regrets over yesterday are twin thieves that rob us of the moment.--Anonymous

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.--Albert von Szent-Gyorgy

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.--Colin Wilson

Without the rocks, the stream would lose its song.--Proverb

A problem, at its core, is really just an opportunity to learn and explore.--Stephen Coleman
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

Each of us must make his own true way, and when we do, that way will express the universal way.
--Suzuki Roshi

A child on the farm sees a plane fly overhead and dreams of a faraway place. A traveler on the plane sees the farmhouse and thinks of home.
--Carl Burns

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.--Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.--Mark Twain

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
--Mark Twain, U.S. Author (1835-1910)

An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered.
--G.K. Chesterton

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.--William J Bryan

Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
--Ralph Waldo Emmerson

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.--Douglas Adams

Life consists of problems, living is solving those problems. You should live life to its fullest and never look back on the past.--Unknown

Do not be dismayed at good-byes. A good-bye is necessary before meeting again and meeting again after moments or lifetimes is certain for those who arefriends.--Richard Bach

There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.--Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.--Mahatma Gandhi

We are none of us truly isolated; we are connected to one another by a web of regularities and by a host of shared, deep-seated certainties.--Lionel Tiger and Robin Fox, Anthropologists

Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.--David Lloyd George

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one thatheralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I've found it!), but 'That's funny...'--Isaac Asimov

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.--Helen Keller

The faintest ink is more powerful than the strongest memory.--Old Chinese Proverb

Things should be made as simple as possible -- no simpler.
--Albert Einstein

Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
--Rene Descartes

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
--General George Patton

There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.--Douglas MacArthur
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.--Antoine de Saint Exupery

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.--Confucius

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
--Confucius

Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well as now.--P.T. Barnum

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.--Thomas Jefferson

Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it, but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.
--Charles A. Lindbergh (1902-1974)

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
--Chuang-tzu (B.C. 350)

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
--Aldous Leonard Huxley, British writer (1894-1963)

Imagination is the eye of the soul.
--Joubert (1754-1824)

To talk goodness is not good... Only to do it is.
--Chinese Proverb

Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment - the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.--Jorge Luis Borges, Argentinian writer (1899-1986)

Difficulties increase the nearer we approach our goal.
--Goethe (1749-1832)

Integrity has no need of rules.
--Albert Camus (1913-1960)



Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.--Albert Camus

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.--A. France

I wish they would only take me as I am.--Van Gogh

"We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses." -C. G. Jung

"Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written." -Anonymous

"The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it." -James Bryce

"Some people are working backstage, some are playing in the orchestra, some are on-stage singing, some are in the audience as critics and some are there to applaud. Know who and where you are." -Unknown

"Work is good but it's not that important." -Anonymous

"Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training." -Anna Freud

"Millions of opinions are given every single day. Usually, about 5 of them are actually ASKED for! 3 of THOSE are either invalid or complete lies, and the other two are disregarded by the person asking. Funny, isn't it?" -Annonymous

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions, small people always do that. But the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." -Mark Twain

"Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow, instead of your voice." -Unknown

"Remember that people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold, but so does a hard boiled egg." -Annonymous




"There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign."




Continue to be yourself because in the end that's what people will remember about you. --unknown

He who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet.
--Joseph Joubert, essayist (1754-1824)



Any fine morning, a power saw can fell a tree that took a thousand years to grow.
--Edwin Way Teale, naturalist and author (1899-1980)

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
--Lucius Annaeus Seneca, writer and philosopher (BCE 3-65 CE)

"You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you."--Eric Hoffer

Being happy doesn't mean everything's perfect. It means you've decided to see beyond the imperfections.

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
--Chinese Proverb

It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end.
--Ursula Le Guin.

If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.
--Catherine


Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
--Anais Nin, author


The deeper that sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven?
--Kahlil Gibran, mystic, poet, and artist (1883-1931)

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
--Paulo Freire, educator (1921-1997)

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.--Peter Ustinov, actor, writer and director (1921- )

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
--Kahlil Gibran, mystic, poet, and artist (1883-1931)

The opposite. I love only life. But life can only continue in the face of death.
--Orson Scott Card - The Worthing Saga

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.
--Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel laureate (1879-1955)

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
--George Bernard Shaw, writer, Nobel laureate (1856-1950)

Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things -- he didn't just command them to believe.
-- the Dalai Lama

You become writer by writing. It is a yoga.
--R.K. Narayan, novelist (1906-2001)



The only gift is giving to the poor;
All else is exchange.--Thiruvalluvar, poet (c. 30 BCE)

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You can sometimes count every orange on a tree but never all the trees in a single orange.
--A.K. Ramanujan, poet (1929-1993)

Easy reading is damned hard writing.
--Nathaniel Hawthorne, writer (1804-1864)

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while apessimist sees only the red stoplight... The truly wise person iscolor-blind.
--Albert Schweitzer, philosopher, physician, musician, Nobel laureate (1875-1965)

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.--Lily Tomlin

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.--Arthur C Clarke, science fiction writer (1917- )

There must be more to life than having everything.--Maurice Sendak

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of discussion.
--Plato, philosopher (427-347 BCE)

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; oroffer your own version in return.
--Salman Rushdie, writer (1947-he still lives on.... :) )

Idgah, Munshi Premchand ( a small tribute that was pending...)

Idgah – A Critical Appreciation

Idgah is a very powerful story written by Munshi Premchand, a well known Hindi Writer . It casts a strong impact on the minds of it’s readers. This story is a must read piece of literature by the readers of all ages. It has been picked from the book “Maansarovar”, a popular collection of stories by the author . Hamid , the hero of the story is a small boy of 4-5 years . He has lost his parents in his early childhood. Now his caretaker and guardian is his old grandmother Amina, whom he calls Dadi and with whom he lives in a small village. They are very poor because they have no source of income. Literally hand to mouth, the duo are passing their days in utter poverty . Old Amina tries to fulfill their daily needs doing some needle work for others. Still Hamid is a happy child and is full of love , compassion and hope because his Dadi has told him that very soon his father would return home with lots of money from abroad and his mother would bring many gifs and sweets for him from the house of Allah Mian . Hamid completely trusts his Dadi says and is waiting eagerly for his parents to come back with lots of fortune for them. Once on the occasion of Id festival Hamid goes for Idgah along with other children of the village to offer Namaz and then enjoy the tour of the traditional village fair . Poor Hamid doesn’t have new clothes and shoes like other children . Unlike his friends who have enough pocket money to spend on toys, sweets and rides Hamid has only three paise as idi in all to spend which his Dadi could hardly spare. Still he is very happy and full of excitement. After offering prayers all the children get busy enjoying various kinds of joyrides like Hindola and Charkhi . But wise Hamid dismisses this wastage of money for momentary pleasure . After enjoying rides all the kids rush to buy colorful clay toys which took away the hearts of viewers when displayed neatly in the shop . Little Hamid is also very much tempted with the exclusive beauty of the toys but his wisdom prevents him to spend his small amount on these perishable items . His friends buy many toys like Bhishti, lawyer, policeman and a milkmaid . But wise Hamid overcomes his temptation and turns away from the shop of toys .

While roaming in the fair he sees a pincer, a chimta, in a hardware shop . Hamid recalls that without chimta how his Dadi burns her fingers while making chapaties for him . Kind hearted Hamid exhausts his entire idi in buying the chimta for Dadi without any regret that neither he enjoyed any ride nor did he purchase any toy for himself nor he was left with a single paisa to satisfy his hunger while all other children were enjoying all kinds of sweets and eatables right in front of him . The story is an unparallel saga of a small child with extraordinary wisdom and maturity better than any adult .He sacrificed all his share of enjoyment when the need of his Grandma stands before him to be weighed . Although Hamid is ridiculed and teased by other boys for his useless purchase, he convinces and silences all his friends with his witty and intelligent arguements that how his chimta is better than their perishable toys and that how it can defeat their lawyer or Bhishti or policeman in no time and would last forever while their clay toys would be thrown away in the garbage within couple of hours . In this section of the story the dialogues of the children are very interesting and it is also funny that how all the children start acknowledging the supremacy of Hamid’s chimta and are tempted to exchange their purchase with it .It is a perfect example that Munshi Premchand had a keen insight into child psychology.

All the children who were then trying to humiliate and ridicule Hamid now are keen to be friends with him and are satisfied enough if they get the chance to touch his unbeatable and invincible chimta . The most poor and subdued boy of the entire group returns home from the fair most triumphant and victorious like a hero. The story has touching end when Hamid gifts the chimta to his Dadi . At first instance Dadi is very much shocked, irritated and annoyed at the stupidity of the boy that instead of eating anything or buying any toy or enjoying any kind of ride all he could find to purchase was this chimta . Initially Hamid gets scared to see the reaction of his Dadi but when he tells her that he has bought this chimta for her because daily she burns her fingers in making chapaties, Amina is stunned at the sensitivity of the child and is full of regret and repentance at her own outburst. She bursts into tears and blesses him for his kindness . Here the small boy of 4-5 years plays the part of a protecting and comforting adult and the good old Dadi is crying inconsolably like a small child . This is the magical outcome of the story. It is my all time favorite story .

Some of Munshi Premchand's best...

Kafan

Godan

Gaban

Rangbhumi

Vardaan

Sevasadan

Pratigya

Premashram

Ruh

He wrote over 300 short stories, about 12 novels and 2 plays.' Mansarovar' is touching...

Stressed by the Mistress!

Alright, to start with m not quite in the mood to slaughter this movie called Mistress of Spices as much as I were last night after spending some 2 hours on it.

The theme cannot be judged that well , for you dont know if it is around Tilo(Aishwarya Rai) or the spices! The story is of a girl with powers like a quake detector, she can tell where lies gold and when comes flood! Nu, the bandits get hold of her and she escapes later , just to find herself sailing (boatless) at a shore where she meets a woman/teacher who later sends them to different parts of the world to serve mankind with spices! Now please dont think that we are talking about cooks making Indian curries but women healing pain n miseries with spices.

There enters the not so glamourous Aishwarya Rai , clad in saree !The kriya starts and she helps those who need the spices to heal..... blah blah.... the spices talk to her( it seems, huh! ) and there are some hundred dry chillies hanging on to a wall that guide her and keep from using spices for herself.....

But in no time does she fall for this Mr.Nobody ........... and the story gets even more irritating. The chillies get angry and the spices punish her by turning her spells... whah!

Then the lady irritates me furthur more with her sing a song fake accent and droopy apperance.... rest is for you to watch and judge why i hated it so much!

tuch tuch! what a waste!

Extreme close up's and wrong lighting get onto you!

Book Review - The Butcher, The Baker, The Candlestick Maker

Mid-forties and with two kids, surely finding time time for sex must be difficult? Not for Suzanne Portnoy who sets aside one whole weekend every month for this very purpose, but with complete strangers. Fetish, clubs, internet sites and even naturist health clubs provide her with a willing string of men for her sexy liaisons. Eye-opening stuff.

Synopsis
‘At 29 I got married to live the life of the perfect wife with the gorgeous children. I did that for ten years, the last four of which I was completely celibate. Then I went online and everything changed…’
After a love affair with a man three thousand miles away, met online, Suzanne Portnoy – mother of two and a top executive in the entertainment industry – begins her sexual reawakening. Embarking on a sensational and prolific series of liaisons, Suzanne beds a top London chef, who cooks her a five-star meal on the day her husband moves out. An affair with a famous men’s magazine editor quickly ensues, followed by a top cameraman who take pictures of Suzanne naked. But this is just the beginning. Insatiable, Suzanne dives into the swinging scene and works her way through an entire spectrum of sexual experience, including exhibitionism, group sex, fetish clubs, and a predilection for picking up men during her lunch hour.
Suzanne’s journey of self-discovery is anything but typical; her attitude towards sex and relationships even more unusual. The Butcher, The Baker, The Candlestick Maker is a story that is shocking and heart-warming in equal measure. Freed from the restraints of marriage and monogamy, Suzanne takes pleasure without commitment and tells her story without a trace of shame. She’s not looking for Prince Charming anymore, but fun. And she finds it.

About the Author

Suzanne Portnoy has been a publicist and director of a PR Company for twelve years, working with some of the biggest clients in the entertainment industry. Divorced and with two children, she lives in West London. Attractive and finally a size 12 after 20 years spent yo-yo dieting, she is happily single and spends her spare time writing and producing education videos.