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River Forest Library's Most Wanted: May 15
Provocative bondage novel "Fifty Shades of Grey" rockets to the top of the library's most requested titles.
This week's most requested titles from the includes the saucy, so-called "mommy porn" phenomenon Fifty Shades of Grey.
Here's what Jezebel, one of our favorite websites, had to say about the book's popularity:
Break out the smelling salts, because respectable ladies love that the characters — student Anastasia Steele and billionaire Christian Grey (steel grey, shades of grey, get it?) — indulge in BDSM sex play, and since Grey restrains Steele with his silver tie, one 42-year-old mom says all her friends were "buying their husbands silver ties for Christmas." Married people! Possibly having kinky sex! Heavens!
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Have you read it? Is it worth the hype? Is it even any good? Tell us in the comments.
Anyway, here are the top ten, courtesy of circulation manager Ted Bodewes:
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DVD 4 The Artist (Release: June 26th)
DVD 5 The Lifeboat Rogan, Charlotte BOOK 6 The Power of Habit Duhigg, Charles BOOK 7 Quiet Cain, Susan BOOK 8 The Shoemaker's Wife Trigiani, Adriana BOOK 9 Drift Maddow, Rachel BOOK 10 Imagine Lehrer, Jonah BOOK
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