Anna Lembke

They're telling me I should read that one.

And like later on in the process, I also discovered that you can get free books on Amazon.

So anything that was free that was in the romance category, I would download and read.

And that was really the beginning of the end for me, because once I had that electronic reader, I essentially became a chain reader.

Like as soon as I finished one book, I would either borrow from the local library or buy on Amazon another book.

These were all romance novels.

And I got to a point where whenever I wasn't doing something that I absolutely had to do, like for my work or my family, I was reading romance novels.

And then it got to where, like, that's all I wanted to do.

And I didn't enjoy anything else.

I didn't even really want to like be with my kids or my husband, right?

I just wanted those times to rush through them so that I could go back to reading romance novels.

The other thing that I only realized in retrospect was that these sort of tamer versions of romance where, you know, the sex scenes aren't super graphic, well, those stopped working for me.

And now I needed ever more graphic types of romance novels in order to get that zing that I was looking for.

Oh, it had absolutely become something else.

And of course, it was rooted in the pleasure of reading and the pleasure that I've always gotten from fiction.

But what happened was I got to a point where I really didn't care if it was badly written or badly plotted or the characters were uninteresting.

I would just flip through to the climax, pun intended.

So then I got to where I was like reading really graphic erotica.

And the more graphic, the better.

The more sex scenes, the better.