Elithanathile’s Reviews > The Winter Courtship Rituals of Fur-Bearing Critters > Status Update

// The percentages were off because I'm reading the bundle but rating each novella separately.

// "Ben’s entire body was shaking with silent laughter as he looked at the unmistakably phallic tubes of wool, each of them complete with a contrasting color on the mushroom head and the scrot sac for the twins. One was teal and rust and one was purple and gray, but it didn’t make a difference. What mattered was where they would be worn and who would know they were there"

~ <33333333333! Cock cozies <33333!!

// See previous quote update!

THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT I MEAN!!!!!!! I have to ask, Crawford, Rance, WHATEVER, were you ever hit in the head?!!? Because holy shit, are you being deliberately and I obnoxiously obtuse?!!??? Grrrrrrrr!!

I AM FORCING MYSELF TO CONTINUE BC I BOUGHT THE BUNDLE!!!!!

// "I’m just saying that you don’t let anyone get too close, do you?” Stanley seemed to be challenging him in some way, and Ben was looking at him like he needed Crawford to defend him somehow.
“Of course I do,” Crawford said, feeling puzzled. “I live right next to my store. People have to get close or I wouldn’t sell any stock."

// My previous update is by NO means a criticism in any way, shape, or form. I'm just saying that Crawford's unique & sometimes uncomfortably abrasive way of musing over things leaves me feeling very distanced [from] & irritated [with him]. He's a very odd duck & while there's absolutely nothing wrong with that, I find it difficult to form a bond with him (as a reader), and I find myself losing patience :-(!!

// "Crawford didn’t even hardly have to respond."

~ The writing or the dialect here is so cumbersome to me, that I feel completely disconnected from the story and its characters. Having lived in and traveled so many countries as extensively as I have (not to mention being completely fluent in a few languages), it takes A LOT for me to feel so disconnected from language/culture. I do here :-(!!

Also, I know he's not pedo-like AT ALL, I'm just using the extreme example as a way to describe his very VERY odd way of labelling things at times. I know he's odd but he's also incredibly harmless!!

// I think I'm getting used to Crawford's painfully awkward demeanor. I mean, I know he's a good guy ... just so incredibly shy and 1950s-like in terms of how to approach other people; primarily people (or men) he's interested in :-)!!

// I don't like it when an author makes me annoyed with the MCs, and when it seems intentional, that irks me even more so. KNOCK IT OFF!!!!!

// Okay the way Amy Lane describes Crawford's thought processes here, in terms of how he views "the boy" [Ben], with his child-like smile, makes Crawford sound like a weirdo with latent pedo tendencies >:-/!!! And to describe his previous hookups plumber's crack as a tight little bubble butt that's pre-softened around the rim, is ridiculously off-putting. Is Amy Lane going out of her way to be obnoxious here?!!?