{"id":62,"date":"2010-01-20T20:12:45","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T20:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/?p=62"},"modified":"2010-01-20T20:12:45","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T20:12:45","slug":"a-useful-resource-for-novelists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/?p=62","title":{"rendered":"A Useful Resource for Novelists?"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Most of the time I just lie there and make lists in my head. I grunt once in a while so he knows I’m awake, and then I tell him how great it was when it’s over.”<\/p>\n

I was watching an old edition of The Book Show with Mariella Frostrup and they asked novelist Tony Parsons what was on his bedside table.\u00c2\u00a0 Among other books he said he found ‘Why Women Have Sex: Understanding Sexual Motivation from Adventure to Revenge (and Everything in Between)’ by\u00c2\u00a0 Cindy M. Meston and\u00c2\u00a0David M. Buss to have been a fascinating and invaluable resource, particularly for a male novelist (and it’s not just about women it has plenty in there too about men).<\/p>\n

I found this interesting review\u00c2\u00a0from The Guardian<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0— which cites the above quotation from the book, which I thought might not be out of place in a novel.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

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“Most of the time I just lie there and make lists in my head. I grunt once in a while so he knows I’m awake, and then I tell him how great it was when it’s over.” I was watching an old edition of The Book Show with Mariella Frostrup and they asked novelist Tony … <\/p>\n

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