Customer Reviews

Early Embraces: True Life Stories of Women Describing Their First Lesbian Experience (Bk. 1)

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This was my first lesbian book I've ever read. It helped me realize what is in store for me in my future as I had just realized I am a lesbian. I also bought the book as a gift for a friend who helped me come out. We experienced the book together and were delighted by it to say the least. It does not include S&M or any other types of bondage. I cannot imagine a more perfect book to help me come to terms with my own sexuality. Reading it for the second time through is as good as the first time as I'm sure my third and fourth time will feel. Thank you to all the brilliant authors for sharing their wonderful stories of first times.

My best friend gave me this book as a Christmas gift last Christmas. Once I started reading it, I could not put it down. This is one of the best books on lesbian love. I loved the way the author had plenty of sexual stories, but she also had the emotions added right in. It was remarkable. I highly suggest it to anyone who loves to read about lesbian sex. Give it to a friend who may be having a tough time with the thought of being a lesbian. They will realize that the emotional ties a woman shares when they have sex with another woman in unbelievable. I truely loved this book.

Lesbians, you will know what I am talking about. By counting all of my fingers and toes, I would still run out of digits to answer the question asked to me by straight women and men and my gay boy friends: "How do women do it? " How does one answer this question? Or does the question deserve an answer? It is up to the lesbian.
One way to answer this question is to refer the inquiring minds to the book, "Early Embraces." It is a collection of stories by women throughout the United States, describing their first-time experience with another woman. This collection will bring memories back to the experienced and allow the inexperienced a look into the passion that is ours to share with another women. It acknowledges our feelings, including the sometimes awkwardness and often joyfulness of the lesbian lifestyle.
[...]I believe this book deserves a rating of all 10 of my fingers and all 10 of my toes. It receives a full digit review!
Julie L. Shaffer was homegrown in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and she has been recently transplanted in Seattle via a John Deere tractor. Apparently, Julie has a collection of wonderful implements. That's farm implements, you know.

This book is simply yummy and shows how beautiful (and frustrating!) relationships can be between women. These real life accounts are filled with emotion and personal touches, leaving me wanting more. If you are like me and prefer real stories to fiction, buy this book. It also makes a great book for women who think they might be bisexual or lesbian to read.

I loved this book. Espcially the story "Brown Shoes" by Rita Schiano. Maybe I'm partial because I thought her book "Sweet Bitter Love" was sexy, exciting, and a real page-turner.Read This book....Read Schiano's book, too!

This is one of the most incredible books I have ever read. I can't put it down. The stories are interesting and emotional. I highly reccomend this to anyone, male or female, straight, gay or bi. It is especially helpful for those that are bi-curious. I believe it gives an accurate picture of what it's like for lesbian and bisexual women to start a relationship for another woman. The pre-Stonewall stories are especially interesting from a historical standpoint.

My girlfriend gave me this book as part of my Valentine's Day present and I must say we were both disappointed. I didn't think it could be possible to make such an interesting and charged topic so boring. The stories are poorly written and about as compelling as dishwater. I realize this is supposed to be "real" women talking about their first time lesbian experiences but a little editing of both copy and content should be in order. The writing is often times painfully awkward, the stories themselves mostly mundane with a few on the freakishly odd side.

Some of the reviewers described this book as erotica. It is far from it. And while these tales certainly don't have to be erotic to warrant a book they should at least be captivating.

The only reason I didn't give this book no stars is because if nothing else it gave these women a forum to speak their minds... however, I don't think that forum made for a particularly good read.

I'm glad I didn't read this book before my first time with a woman as it fails to capture and properly relay the beauty, the nervousness, the longing and all the other gamut of emotions that can accompany this experience.

I have never so thoroughly enjoyed a book as I have truly enjoyed this one! So much so,that I 've recently purchased a copy of Early Embraces 2...You mean you didn't know????? Well, yes of course there is another Early Embraces released just recently....Early Embraces 2 !!!!. It is just as well written and twice as thick. The stories are a little longer, but still a great read. Early embraces was so powerful that I gave a copy to a friend of mine who is just now coming to terms with her own sexuality. I couldn't think of any greater gift to give her than ...herself. I hope she finds the book as life affirming as I did!!

Reading this caused a resurgence of memories. I revisited my childhood, adolescence, young adulthood, recalling feelings, sensations, looks, stolen glances, yearnings, achings--and all, at the time, without knowledge of my being Lesbian. Oh, what a pleasant ride I shared with all the contributors of the book. I laughed, cried and sought more and more revelation. I questioned myself and my spouse,about our past, present and future selves.Today, I relive my early embraces! Thanks, Lindsey Elder, for the ride!

Allowing women to tell their own experiences, in their own words, about their "early embraces" makes for a wonderful compilation. Many of the stories are so well-written and touching that they bear re-reading and caused me to buy this book for others, including a young woman I know who is working through the coming out process.

I only wish this book had been available when I was younger. I would have embraced it completely--and early, too!

Lindsey Elder has done a nice job compiling the stories, and I recommend this book to any young woman just coming out or any other woman who is interested in revisiting that heady, confusing time of her first experience with love and lust.