Lady Chatterley

One of the volunteers I work with at the hospital is a former English teacher. 

She knows her stuff.  She reads all the time. She can talk books with the best of them. 

I love her. 

She is the best. 

She is currently reading Fifty Shades of Grey. 

I should mention she is in her mid-late 70's. 

As she and I chatted this AM, she told me I need to get a partner to try out all these tricks I have been learning in 50 Shades. Yes, she told me that.  That was after she called me out for eating one of my homemade muffins. I then told her Christian Grey likes it when I eat. She agreed with me. 

ANYWAY.

I told her that I was currently re-reading the series for the third time and I am starting to not love it anymore. I mean...the writing is pretty bad.  What 22 year old woman says, "holy cow" all the time? And book 3 just gets dumb.   

So, Alice (the awesome volunteer) tells me I should read, "Lady Chatterley's Lover".  It's a classic she says. I said, "does it have any naughty bits?"  She says, "It has naughty bits like in 50 Shades but these bits are well-written."  I was sold!  

Here is the plot to Lady Chatterley's Love. 

The story concerns a young married woman, Constance (Lady Chatterley), whose upper-class husband, Clifford Chatterley, has been paralized due to a war injury, in addition to Clifford's physical limitations, his emotional neglect of Constance forces distance between the couple. Her sexual frutstation leads her into an affair with the gamekeeper, Oliver Mellors. The class difference between the couple highlights a major motif of the novel which is the unfair dominance of intellectuals over the working class. The novel is about Constance's realisation that she cannot live with the mind alone; she must also be alive physically. This realization stems from a heightened sexual experience Constance has only felt with Mellors, proving that love can only happen with the element of the body, not the mind.

 Who's joining my Lady Chatterley's book club? McHottie? Spicy? Mama McHottie?  Anyone??