Now for something a bit different: Thanks to Danielle Dill of Berkley & NAL, I am giving away one print copy of Hot Dudes Coloring Book by D.C. Taylor.
Description of Hot Dudes Coloring Book by D.C. Taylor
In the tradition of Color Me Swoon, an adult coloring book featuring handsome heartthrobs and sexy bad boys.
Handsome heartthrobs and sexy bad boys have stepped out of your fantasies and slipped into the Hot Dudes Coloring Book. Enjoy bringing the men of your dreams to life—in living color!
Giveaway Of Hot Dudes Coloring Book by D.C. Taylor
This giveaway is open to the U.S. only and ends on February 26, 2016 12 am pacific. Entries are accepted via Rafflecopter only.
This would be a delight since it is entertaining and unique for me. I haven’t colored in ages and would begin with this beaut. Thanks.
I love coloring. I colored before it was even cool. Best stress reliever ever! I bought an antique picnic basket (so pretty) and put all my coloring books and supplies in it, that way, I can carry all of my stuff at once and the flaps just fold over fr easy access. When I’m cooking and waiting between water boiling or browning meat, (OR burning garlic bread) I sit at table to color. Helps to pass the time instead of standing around stove. And I kinda look forward to cooking now because I look forward to coloring, even if it’s only for a few minutes. Breaks up monotony.
I find this book fascinating because, the subject is fascinating! Coloring is such a great stress reliever!
I hope the gay dude-lovers, especially those near and dear to me, don’t decide to espouse a new cultural emphasis on motor skills a la preschool as a performance that gets to be somehow normative in segments of the BGLT/queer communities.
It’s all good though with true allies I well know…different strokes, for different folks. That said, what first occurs to me when I see these books is: My strokes aren’t very orderly, which made my first grade teacher implacable for me — not so much as to my coloring properly, a curricular focus relinquished to art class, Rather, she could not abide my recursive bad cursive hand. This teacher made me come in at recess to practice handwriting while the other children were outside playing — a practice I understood as usually reserved for a punishment for behavioral issues, and the teacher noted that I was particularly conscientious in all her reports to my parents.
So, while I think it’s a charming trend indeed…just as long as it doesn’t send me back to the world of first grade failure and stigmatization!
This won’t happen. Still, when I see this I want to say to four of my best friends, I would say: “Remember me, Matt, Mike, Paul & Brian, and stop motoring your skills to color hot dudes on occasion! I would miss you, and I don’t know if these hot dudes are into the racial queering element here, which does capture my imagination….”
Instead of my remarkably poor skills in cursive and coloring in the lines, I am not going to have a paranoid joke scenario in my head. I’m going to think when I see adult coloring books: “This trend could obliterate race for hot gay dudes, if they wish to be so represented, in a coloring book…we humans could certainly do worse!”
Cheers, Kara S
Kara, I don’t know that this book is specifically targeted to gay dudes. There are plenty of women who like hot looking dudes. Anyway, since the offer was there, I thought this would be something a bit different to offer for a giveaway. I myself, wouldn’t have the patience for coloring books but I do know that adult coloring books are very popular right now. I am not one to color inside the lines. BTW, at recess, I was inside having to cut out hearts on Valentines Day until I got a perfect one. This was in kindergarten around the time they figures out I had dyslexia! I called my teacher an “old bag” but not to her face. All the kids seemed to love her except me, she was mean! She kept complaining to my mom that I was nothing like my older sister, who she adored.
I really do find this book a charming exemplar of this completely cool trend. I just was sharing the comic irony that it arouses my reflections on 1st grade rather then a desire to jump in and have at one myself.
As for my stereotyped assumption, the concept just made me think of several close friends in their — fetishization is too too strong a word — of dudes’ hotness. Because of my own passionate and particular feminist ideals, I am disinclined to engage with people as potential/actual sex objects regardless of whether they’d welcome such a dynamic. So as a hetero woman I associate this pov with gay and bi male peers.
Thanks for sharing your relatable story of similar torment! I guess I should know by now that schools don’t work so well. It’s a feel bad time for so much of it for so many people I know. It sounds like your story’s villain was cut from the same stock as mine! Actually I’d guess you had it worse I think from what you said in your reply alone.
But, I’m glad you get some recompense in coloring book crazes amd public hot dude appreciation. I’m presuming your pleasure based on what I know of your character rather than what you wrote above…Giving and generous-minded people are the ones who have the most fun indeed is what I think. Good wishes to one of best people — the inimitable Teddy Rose — and all my good fellow readers! –Kara S
PS See my friend’s landmark (seriously though) book on this good people live phenomenon if you want to check it out…I like to brag about my friends regardless: http://www.amazon.com/Give-Take-Revolutionary-Approach-Success
Teddy, you are so right when you say adult colouring books are hot. I can’t believe how many of these books, that my cousins buy every week and how many pages, that they colour AND post every day!And I have a friend, who still colours alongside of her daughter, ever since the daughter learned how to hold a crayon. The daughter is now over 21 and they still hold clouring contests!