Book Spotlight Giveaway! With My Body by Nikki Gemmell

I have sooooo many books! I have a ton of print books and probably even more e-books. The Book Spotlight Giveaway feature that I post every Saturday is a way for me to clear my shelves and to share some of the many books I have. There are a lot of different reasons that I might be letting some of my books go, the biggest one is that when we moved a little over 2 years ago I discovered how many books I really do have. This feature is a way for my to cull my collection and to give someone else the opportunity to enjoy them.

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This is another ARC that I received from my daughter when she moved. I actually read this book when it came out in 2012. You can read my thoughts here.  

Good luck and be sure to stop back next week!

With My Body

With My Body by Nikki Gemmell 

Series: (Bride Trilogy #2)

ARC, 480 pages

Published June 19th 2012 by Harper Perennial 

A wife, a mother of three, she has everything a woman should want—and yet she has gone numb inside. Locked in a never-ending cycle of chores, errands, and mealtimes, she cannot find a way to live her life with the honesty and passion that once drove her. Even her husband, whom she loves, has never truly touched the core of her being. Only one person has ever come close.

In desperation, she returns to the memory of an old love affair—a transformative relationship with consequences she has never fully resolved. Revisiting her past, she will begin an exhilarating journey into her sexuality while finally confronting the hidden truths of her heart.

Exquisitely lyrical, bold, and seductive, With My Body is a thought-provoking exploration of family, sex, marriage, and love—the love we give, withhold, and surrender to.

About the author

Nikki Gemmell is the best-selling author of thirteen novels and four works of non-fiction. Her books have been translated into 22 languages. She was born in Wollongong, New South Wales and lived in London for many years, but has now returned to Australia.

Her distinctive writing has gained her critical acclaim in France, where she's been described as a "female Jack Kerouac". The French literary magazine Lire has included her in a list of what it called the fifty most important writers in the world – those it believes will have a significant influence on the literature of the 21st century.

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On Tour and a Giveaway: With My Body by Nikki Gemmell

In 2003 Nikki Gemmell created waves when, writing under the tag 'Anonymous', The Bride Stripped Bare became a literary sensation, with its raw and unflinching depiction of female sexuality. She called it 'a very honest take on sex, from a woman's perspective', and it went on to top bestseller lists around the world.

Now, eight years later, Nikki returns with another tour de force, articulating thoughts and feelings that most people simply cannot put into words. Told in her distinctively lyrical style, With My Body addresses the questions of what is intimacy and whether it is ever truly possible to know another person. It is at once a manifesto of married mothers everywhere and a highly personal story of one woman’s sexual awaken.

A wife, comfortably married and with several children, is contemplating middle age along with all the constraints of motherhood. Finding herself numb and locked down in an unending cycle of school runs, laundry and meal times, she cannot at first see a way to live with honesty. Even her husband, whom she loves, has never reached the core of her. Despairing of ever finding a way through her family to her own identity, she returns to the memory of an old love affair - the consequences of which she has never resolved.

This is beautiful, literary writing at its best - exquisitely raw, emotional and bold, and deeply resonant of the classic French erotic writings of Colette, Nin and Duras, but with a modern and provocative twist. ~~synopsis from Goodreads

My thoughts on With My Body ~~

The author does write beautifully and I found myself falling in love with the words and how they flowed across the pages. The book itself consists of short chapters called lessons. Each lesson starts with a quote from a very old book that really becomes a very important part of the story.

Nikki is very unhappy in her life, as a wife, as a mother and as a daughter. She feels that her emotions have shut down and she is just a shell, going through the motions of her life. She decides to go back to the place where she did feel love to see if she can recapture what she is missing.

We go back to that time and relive her past with her as she learns what love is and what a satisfying sexual life can be like. Can she capture these feelings again so that she can be satisfied with the life she has? The lessons are all there before her, if she takes them to heart.

There were some disturbing parts in the book. The man who Nikki has an affair with in that past summer is much older than she is and takes advantage of her innocence and molds their sexual encounters to his benefit. I was not expecting this book to be as erotic as it was so that caught me a bit off guard. So except for that unexpected aspect of the book, I feel that With My Body is a great story that is beautifully written.

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WWW Wednesdays July 11

WWW Wednesdays is hosted by Should Be Reading 

To play along, just answer the following three questions…
• What are you currently reading?
• What did you recently finish reading?
• What do you think you’ll read next? 

What are you currently reading?

Harvesting the Heart by Jodi Picoult

This is an older Picoult book but we are reading it for my book club this month. Actually I am listening to the audiobook, something I should do more of ~ some of the readers are amazing!

What did you recently finish reading?

The Roots of the Olive Tree by Courtney Miller Santos

Loved it!!

The Cell Phone Lot by Stephanie Elliot 
Quick read and my thoughts are here

With My Body by Nikki Gemmell 
My thoughts will be posted July 13th

Paula Takes a Risk by Randi M. Sherman

Short but funny book and my thoughts will be posted July 17

What do you think you will read next?

Kat Fight by Dina Silver 
On tour here on July 21-22

What's on your WWW this week?

Leave me a comment and 
I'll stop by to check out your reads.