A review by marypickfords
Delta of Venus by Anaïs Nin

3.0

this book is so short but took me many months to finally finish because everytime i picked it up i was transported to such a.. dark place. i hate to be that person without many words but the Vibes in this are really something else. i'm not sure if that's how nin wrote erotica or if it was the person she was writing these to.. what a darksided little book. at least when i finally decided to finish it today i was halfway through the story 'linda' which is one of the best ones, i was thinking all this (why is this book so dark will i ever be able to finish this) and then found myself enjoying linda and felt bad. but i do like the style of little else matters but desire. the stories change characters and setting in the middle of a paragraph and they end whenever they feel like it, it's not always about making sense or even telling you a proper story (though it does do that sometimes). overall i suppose it is meant to be vivid enough to get one off and in that sense it works.. even with stories blending this book feels so alive, for better or worse. it's not bad but i did feel off whenever i picked it up and so i could never read much of it at once lol. but now.. i am free!