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Valentine Bonnaire

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in San Francisco, The United States

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Fiction, Short Stories, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Erotica, YA

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Raymond Carver, Octavio Paz, Kate Braverman, D. H. Lawrence, Anais Nin

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November 2011

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I've been published for my Literary Erotica at Cleansheets and Erotica Readers & Writers Association in the web for some time now. One of my poems was nominated for a Pushcart once. Also published for real by Constable & Robinson, and Seal Press this year. I write heterosexual short stories that are often character studies and I've been compared to Anais Nin in a few reviews. (My old nom de plume was Adrianna de la Rosa.)

This is my nom de plume. My real name is Adrienne and I have degrees in Art and Depth Psychology. My short stories run the gamut for "emotional" themes in Erotica, I'm currently working on shorts about shoes. Suede shoes! Each tale shows a different aspect of love and sexuality. I want to leave the reader "thinking" kind o ...more

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Day 2 SBWC 2018

I missed most of today because I adopted a beautiful dog from the Humane Society this morning. He is a dog that is a guardian dog. His breed dates back to the Bronze Age and he was once called a royal dog in France. His name is Odin, from the most powerful of the old Nordic mythology. It was instant love. Very happy today. I lost two dogs that had been rescues last year and that was to old a

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Valentine Bonnaire’s books

Average rating: 3.05 · 391 ratings · 8 reviews · 11 distinct works

	Readerotica Vol. 1 by Susannah Indigo (Contributor), Adrianna de la Rosa, Cheyenne Blue (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.01 avg rating — 376 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mammoth Book of Quick & Dirty Erotica by Maxim Jakubowski (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Donna George Storey (Goodreads Author), Remittance Girl (Goodreads Author) 3.87 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 2013 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gardenias ~ Erotica 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	From Porn to Poetry 2 by Susannah Indigo, Adrianna de la Rosa (Contributor), Valentine Bonnaire (Goodreads Author) (Pseudonymn - Adrianna de la Rosa) 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2003	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bing Cherry Silk by Valentine Bonnaire (Goodreads Author), Adrienne Wilson really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Women of the Web: Anthology of Poems by Terry Lowenstein (Contributor), Lisa Zaran (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Deborah Swain (Contributor) 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2005	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Silk Purses 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pumpkin Suede (Suede Shoe Diaries ~ Erotic Tales) #1 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Velvet Babe's "CATWALK" (Tales of The Velvet Babe -- Catwalk Book 1) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Red Leatherette (Literary Erotica by Valentine Bonnaire Book 1) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“How many rooms are there in the chambers of your heart? How many rooms full of memories can you describe like the one I’m going to tell you about. You know how you left him don’t you? The man you were so in love with once. Bing Cherry Silk. Another man left those for you didn’t he? And you put them on, just like I did.”
― Valentine Bonnaire, Bing Cherry Silk

tags: erotic, eroticism, gift, lovers, panties, silk

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“A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board”
― D.H. Lawrence

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“I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone's heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark.”
― Raymond Carver

tags: heart, human-passion

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“When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn’t know.
"Oh, sure you know," the photographer said.
"She wants," said Jay Cee wittily, "to be everything.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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“How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that's so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more. Perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.”
― Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky

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“As for me, I am a watercolor.
I wash off.”
― Anne Sexton

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message 3: by Valentine

Jan 09, 2014 11:21AM

RedIza wrote: "Thanks for adding me as a friend - merci !"

mais non! thank you!

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message 2: by Iza

Jan 06, 2014 02:13PM

Thanks for adding me as a friend - merci !

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message 1: by Valentine

Jul 22, 2012 03:08PM

I am making book trailers for my short stories! With iMovie -- here is the first one! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LQQ8q...
So exciting! xxoo!

My own book "Gardenias" is a collection of short stories, all literary erotica that have been published in the web at Clean Sheets and the Erotica Readers & Writers Association. The link to my book in Kindle!

http://www.amazon.com/GARDENIAS-ebook...

The link to my experimental trailer for the first story -- "Gardenias"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LQQ8q...

I'm so interested in making short films! <3

The story "Gardenias" can be read in Author's Den here:

http://www.authorsden.com/visit/views...

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