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Hey friends! As we were all probably trying not to think about, E.L. James has released a sequel to The Mister<\/em>, called, The Missus.<\/em> I wasn’t going to pay any attention to it; James’s career is firmly heading to midlist now; The Missus<\/em> didn’t break the top 100 on Amazon on its release day, and it didn’t make the lists. Finally<\/em>, I thought. Finally, we are free.<\/em> She’s not a cultural phenomenon, so there’s no reason to think about her and her god-awful books anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But then I read this article on Bustle<\/a>, and I was like, oh, fuck this,<\/em> grabbed my camera and my hater goggles, and made a decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We’re recapping The Missus.<\/em> But this time, we’re doing it with a twist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because I’m far more wordy when I’m typing than when I’m talking, recapping a book takes me between six to eight hours per chapter. That’s reading, making notes, re-reading, and writing everything until it’s exactly how I want it to be. And because my serialized fiction career is doing so well right now, I don’t have time to recap the book we’re already recapping, let alone a new one. But making videos is so much shorter. Read, rage, film, edit, caption, upload. It’s like a four-hour process in terms of active work time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, come along with me while I read and react to The Missus<\/em>, beginning with my take on the article in which E.L. James claims that the trauma of her billion-dollar film franchise not turning out exactly how she envisioned it was so great, it caused her to develop amnesia to escape the horror.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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