Acts of Service

I had been going around for years trying to figure out what sex meant to other people. . . . Eve has an adoring girlfriend, an impulsive streak, and a secret fear that she’s wasting her brief youth with just one person. So one evening she posts some nudes online. This is how Eve meets Olivia, and through Olivia the charismatic Nathan. Despite her better instincts, the three soon begin a relationship—one that disturbs Eve as much as it enthralls her. As each act of their affair unfolds across ...

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krupatato28 февраля 2025 г.
О поиске и принятии себя, сексе, любви и власти
Каждый персонаж со своими тараканами, по своему messy and flawed. Динамику их отношений безумно интересно наблюдать.

I knew that the hour in which sex occurred was the least superficial thing: For that hour, at least, I was absolutely real and present, capable of feeling, intuition, care, vulnerability. Why couldn't I feel like that with the help of a little solitary tool, like meditation or exercise?
Сам секс показан не просто как половой акт, а как процесс коммуникации, явление и открытия себя.

It takes a little bit of sex to remember you don't really know people when you see them on the street. Sex forces you back into awe—reveals to you just how difficult it is to know someone, just how much attention and self-delusion are required to conjure love.
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kloynism6 марта 2023 г.
does not feel like a debut at all
so intimate. so sexual. so much to process.

I always enjoy reading books written by women about one woman’s messy life.
every time it enhances my love of being a woman more and more.

it certainly did affect my current mental state, and slightly redirected the flow of my thoughts, but i feel like i gained a good experience and learned a few lessons around the topic i’ve never really been interested in.

this is a good read. although, I think that I chose the wrong timing to read this book. because i believe, that if i’d read it later in life, it would make much more sense to me.
i am too ‘inexperienced’ in my sexual life right now, to clearly get to every aspect of the story, and that made me a little lost in understanding the authors message.

i’m giving this book 4/5 ️
and i am certain that i will come back to this story in a few years and reread it once i’ll feel like i’m ready.

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krupatato11 февраля 2025 г.
A life knows that it needs a shape and, taking cues from films and lives it has glimpsed, chooses a core around which to bend itself. A life recognizes the theater in which its keeper appears most real.
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krupatato12 февраля 2025 г.
I felt toward him the softness you feel toward the one room in which you are allowed to be alone.
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krupatato12 февраля 2025 г.
A feeling that visited me often, the sense that there was some depth I was avoiding, some sincerity or passion, a drama greater than the petty arguments and achievements that peppered my life.
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