Yes, I'm still busy with midterms, and I desperately wish I was reading _anything_ besides my textbooks. What would I like to be reading now?

-The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Salman Rushdie.

Yah, I realize that Salman Rushdie was once very controversial, but that's not why you should read this book. It's not smut, it's not about BDSM (hey, Mistresses need to escape from BDSM sometime, y'know), it's not even all that sexy (unless you're turned on by articulate writing, like me). It's just... a great book. Here's an excerpt:

Suppose that it's only when you dare to let go that your real life begins? When you're whirling free of the mother ship, when you cut your ropes, slip your chain, step off the map, go absent without leave, scram, vamoose, whatever: suppose that it's then, and only then, that you're actually free to act! To lead the life nobody tells you how to live, or when, or why... Suppose you've got to go through the feeling of being lost, into the chaos and beyond: you've got to accept the loneliness, the wild panic of losing your moorings, the vertiginous terror of the horizon spinning round and round like the edge of a coin tossed in the air.

Huh. Maybe I was lying about this book not being about BDSM... That paragraph sure makes me think of taking a blindfolded submissive and torturing them in various ways till they feel completely overwhelmed and disoriented.