Oprah Winfrey is bringing back her popular book club, updated for the digital age.
“Oprah’s Book Club 2.0,” a joint project of Winfrey’s OWN network and her O magazine, begins Monday with Cheryl Strayed’s popular memoir “Wild.” Special e-editions of the book will be made available that include Winfrey’s comments and a reader’s guide.
“This is way different from the old book club,” Winfrey said on her website. “This time it’s an interactive, online club for our digital world.”
The new club will test whether Winfrey still has clout with the reading public, especially when her network audience is far smaller than what she enjoyed before.
That might be what people say to you if you’re blushing and ‘ooohing’ with every turn of the page on your e-reader. Fifty Shades of Grey has become a runaway success sitting pretty atop of multiple best-seller lists, and women everywhere are talking about its protagonist, Anastasia Steele, and her troubled, controlling man, 27-year-old multi-millionaire Christian Grey.
The ingenuity and imagination with which the pseudonymous James — described in sketchy press materials as a West London TV executive and mother of two — has made steamy female-centric erotica out of what began as Twilight fan fiction is AMAZING.
If Bella Swan had more gumption and sexual curiosity, she might be Anastasia Steele, Fifty Shades‘ 21-year-old heroine, who quickly and decisively loses her virginity to an overpowering man but never relinquishes her fondness for the girlish, clod-kicking expression Holy crap!And if Edward Cullen weren’t, well, a vampire, he might be Christian Grey, the fiendishly rich and handsome sexual fetishist who plays Dominant to Ana’s Submissive.
As hardcore (and, per this lady, yowza! pleasurable) lady porn, Fifty Shades of Grey has a long literary tradition behind it, from The Story of O and the erotica of Anne Rice to Toni Bentley’s The Surrender and Catherine Millet’s The Sexual Life of Catherine M. But as a hot publishing phenomenon (Vintage Books has paid seven figures for the rights to a trilogy) that pours female-oriented erotica over a base of Twilightleavings and makes brilliant use of the discreet portability of e-books, Fifty Shades of Grey is in a class by itself. Holy crap! A reader might just miss her bus stop
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Oprah Winfrey is bringing back her popular book club, updated for the digital age.
