Reviews

Plenitude by Andrea Routley

caseythecanadianlesbrarian's review

5.0

My favourite pieces from this issue were definitely Vancouver writer Alex Leslie’s series of unsent love letters with strategically blotted out words. This peculiar strategy manages to increase the wonder and sexiness of early love/lust by leaving those crucial details to the imagination; sometimes you can guess what comes between the words you can read (for example: “bluest ———- seen” seems likely to be “bluest eyes I have ever seen”–but couldn’t it be something else?). It’s amazing, actually, how much of a narrative you can construct with so many of the words blanked out; it’s an exercise in imaginative, interactive reading with such sexy, juicy sentences as: “I——-her—–breast.” Isn’t it more fun to fill in the gaps with your own sexy ideas? It’s like the most ideal erotica, because you can really make it exactly what turns you on. It’s like choose your own adventure lesbian erotica!

See the full review at my website:
http://caseythecanadianlesbrarian.wordpress.com/2013/10/24/the-crush-is-certainly-mutual-a-review-of-plenitudes-second-issue/