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Confessions of a Faithful Woman

by Milele

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I LOVE MY READERS!!!!!! One year strong!!!!!!!!!

It has been a year since “Confessions of a faithful woman” was published!  Over the course of this year many readers and supporters have shared their thoughts, views, reviews, critiques and understandings with me.   I am forever grateful for and humbled by every exchange.  Not only have you all embraced the book and the meaning behind it.  You all have allowed me in on your intimate thoughts and experiences.  I appreciate that more than words could ever express.  This post is dedicated to the readers and supporters.  I truly love, honor and respect each of you.  Those who are anonymous choose to be so because of circumstances not because they are ashamed of their thoughts or views.  Once again Asante sana. Nakupenda!!! (Thank you very much. I love you)

*Disclaimer I love the author of this book so I will attempt to be objective.*

“Confessions of A Faithful Woman” or COAFW for short is an excellent book filled with poems and short stories about life, spirituality, sensuality and love. After a series of tweets with my sisstar De I learned about COAFW. I became friends with Milele and purchased the book. After a night filled with dancing, I popped the book open to read a couple of pages but much to my surprise I was hooked and the book was stuck to my face the next morning. I was in trance by the stories and the writing in this book. I am a lover of love and well written love stories and COAFW is filled with just that. Each story is able to reach all readers young and old, in love and seeking love and understanding. Best of all it is told from an Afrikan perspective. Stories like “Graduation” and “Newness” explore new and uncharted love. “Home” shows the power of honestly in relationships and rekindling past love. “Twins”, “Twwins” and “Twwwins” shows love and connecting spiritually with an individual from a science fiction perspective; which I found enlightening and intriguing. Many more stories make the pages that take you on the journey into the wonderful world of “Confessions of A Faithful Woman”. Happily this book is the first of a growing series that will evolve to encompass other elements of love live and relationships. I recommend this book to everyone. If you don't love all of the stories hopefully one of them will speak to your spirit.
~ Kita

OMG!!!!!!!!! Sis I love Confessions. I had no idea I would be cummin while reading this book. I mean dayum you got that erotic shit down pat. I think I was touching myself by page 43 but resisting the urge the whole time. KUDOS SIS!!!!!! Please feel free to share my review if you want. I don't think I have been that wet without a mate in the room in a very long time. Good damned job!!!!!!!

Anonymous

I wrestled with this one for a bit. Mostly because this is the first time I’ve seen sexuality explored freely through without being polarized into a “pornographic” or “mundane” experience. Milele’s triumph is that through her storytelling, she’s normalized the experience of divine sexuality. For those who may study Taoist alchemy, Tantra, or other traditions that recognizes the divinity in our sexual evolution and experience. We usually have to retreat to erotic poetry and art to explore these ideas in a context that goes beyond the instructional literature. There are many classics among Asian culture, but they can be hard to find and often many of the cultural references don’t translate well. The fact is who’ve embraced this lifestyle still live in the same reality and experience the same challenges that others who whether by habit or intent, treat sex as a recreational or limit it to procreation. We experience the same highs and lows that social, let alone sexual interaction inspire.
The stories are thrilling and challenge established cultural mores and limitations. Industrious minds will be inspired with new ideas and perspectives. Some will have their worlds rocked just to learn that their way isn’t the “ONLY way” to love somebody. Let alone love yourself! I for one can’t wait for the next chapter!

~Montague

Hey, hope your having an awesome day.. Your book was extremely sexual and it really turned on my bisexual side of me. It helps me to be comfortable in my 3 sums and LET GO instead of being controlling.. I love men but women definetly brings my sensual side. I admit I was so turned on that I never use my vibrator but I pulled it out a couple times to release.. Just that turned on kudos!! ~Anonymous

Your book is so perfect because it ties all planes together in a subject that most people do not even recognize they exist.  It truly is one of the most beautiful books I have ever read. I cannot wait for you to share more of your work. Your work intrigues me even more...about you. I can tell you are a very in tune, wise, pure, genuine woman & I just want to be around.  I have grown from reading your book. Thank you for that beloved. You inspire me, affirm my path and call me higher! ... It is truly something to connect with a woman who has been on her spiritual path for so long because I am the only one in my family or circle who is like that. You guide me from your depth of experience.  :) You have helped guide me so I can do just that; that is why I am so appreciative of you!!! Truly.

PenofPassion

AT LONG LAST!!!! I finally finished the book Had to put it down for a minute due to a deadline for some academic writing and to go on a family vacation....so sorry for the delay. Finished it on the plane cross country and I caught the dude in the middle seat peaking over to read it, so I gave it to him and he read th...e first part (hopefully he became hooked and will also purchase it). Feedback: Bravo, for real. It is beyond refreshing to experience the open expression of intimacy and arousal from a woman. Risky business, as u know, because we are so often judged negativity for liking sex, and....*gasp*....actually speaking honestly about it. This type of work paves the way for all of us, to experience freedom of sexual expression in its many forms. Then you went and included culturally-based themes and ideologies as well....you are GOOD, Milele!!! Honestly I have "non-traditional" views regarding monogamy, and when I talk about this, sometimes I feel people judging me...especially men. It's as if i am regarded as "one of those chicks who sleeps around", which is so far from the truth. “Confessions” addresses this reality, and others that are used to box people into social categories, and I am really diggin that! ~Anonymous

Good afternoon my beautiful sistar!
So over the weekend I was doing a bit of cleaning and I had down time on my hands so I told myself I would finally sit and start reading your book, Confessions. I had previously thumbed threw the book and looked at stories that Kita referenced but I had not read it for myself. So Sunday I poured a glass of wine...opened by windows...put on my favorite undies and sat and read your book. Can I just say Zane who? I've always loved reading books by Zane but you are my new Zane! You are better than she is when it comes to touching my mental and making me think. I am already half way through this book and I just started! The exciting thing about your book is that I can relate to it. The stories are similar to situations that I have encountered thus far in my life. I am a very sensual person and I always use to think that I was just too freaky...reading this books shows me that I'm just fine. Nothing is wrong with me and how I feel about sex and my body. I LOVE THIS BOOK AND I AM EXCITED FOR THE SECOND BOOK ALREADY! I'm so mad at myself that I just had this book sitting and had not given it the proper attention. I guess it was time for me to read it. I have been reading self help books for work and personal goals...and now it's time for me to read some self help for my sexual life. I love this book and I'm going to push for others to get this...it's amazing! I'm so happy to know you the beautiful woman that wrote this book. It felt good yesterday saying I'm reading my friend's book and she's an amazing author. My book even has highlighted pages already! There are some things I plan to try! Love this book and thank you for writing and sharing it with us all. <3 you
Freeberry

"I liked it; way different from anything I have ever read. Re-reading it. Eye opener."

~Anonymous

 "This book, this work is an important read. Our culture seeks to dis-connect us from our OWN divinity. " Confessions of a faithful Woman" , attempts to restore that connection, and to bring All humanbeings to a personal TRUTH! Please read" Dhati M. Kennedy

I went to Milele's book release yesterday and it was super cool... So the book is all types of steamy more than steamy but her aim was to bring together sexuality and spirituality... although i haven't read the whole book, well, hell, i'm though half of it in one day...and there are threesomes and swinging scenes and all types of fun stuff thrown in there to keep you interested...although I haven't read 50 shades of gray, i'm sure it's better."

-DeAndrea Blaylock, MSW Washington University, Christian Sex Therapist

 

Soul charged my spirit
Rejuvenated an old young being
Allowed me to see that
My experiences
Are my livelihoods ignition
Her
Love is
The purest
Nutrient replenishing
Nourishing
The crazed stage of womanhood
Her
Love is
What we've been missing
Milele
We'll have
Love
Most Genuine
Ever meet someone and feel that they were truly genuine, knew that they understood you! That connection that allowed you to be the truest you! I can't recall exactly how I begin to follow her when I initially joined twitter in 2009, but I will say 3 years and about 4 accounts later I've always made my way back to Milele!! Yea yea sounds a little groupie-ish, but coming from such a negatively dark spot in my life, her light was was an inspiration that I couldn't allow to leave my sphere! All of us tweet-birds know that our timelines become like an extended family, and Milele made me feel like a part of her family as she reached out to me during an extremely dark place in my life. I had just had a daughter from a man I barely knew, who happened to be sexually, mentally and physically abusive during my pregnancy; barely over that I entered a new relationship with a man that I'd fallen deeply for only to find out a year later that he was MARRIED. I lost weight (which at 5'3" 115 I couldn't afford to lose), I'm pretty sure that she felt my energy, sensed I needed some nurturing and made me feel beautiful, assured me that what I was going through didn't have to be the death of me!! Once I found out that she wrote, it was like the light got even brighter. So I was anticipating the release of her book, and then it happened, her genuinely positive demeanor was confirmed reality, as I felt every word of Confessions...of a Faithful Woman! Each story peered into a corner me!! From the deepest valley in me I Thank You Milele for giving pieces of you, and with pieces of you I have found peace in me!!
~Headwrappedra

 

This book is amazing because it causes you to change the way you see things. LOVE IT! Awesome read. Looking forward to the next edition in this series!

Ayesha

At a time when fluff and base porno-babble seem to dominate the world of romance/erotic writing, there has come a book of sensational detail and finesse, written from a Black perspective.

Confessions of a Faithful Woman is a celebration and collaboration of divine harmony and message, written by the talented and awe inspiring, Milele, who uses verbal imagery to exact erotic delight.… Confessions… is structured in a very loose, but concise way. Her poem “Blending” is written in the same spirit and style of many poems and stories of the Black Arts Movement of the 70′s. In one line from the poem, “As they came together their juices caused the sky to rain…” Milele creatively places the letters of the word “rain” in a way to simulate rainfall right there on the page. Through the compilation, she blurs the lines of interpersonal, social and even literary “taboo,” and flings monotony, normalcy (as if there were such a thing) frigidity and prudishness to a gusting, yet discerning wind.
In the traditional African perspective, people are not defined by how they have their sex or with whom. Nodding to Sobunfo Some’s, Spirit of Intimacy, Milele’s stories and poems are not fettered, limited or restricted by any religious points of view.
The book is very easy to read containing many fictional, yet relatable scenarios. Milele even explores the creativity fantastic with “Twins.” Milele weaves dialogue that is frank and honest, but far beyond the conversations in your dime a dozen standard vernacular “urban” novels. This collection is not for children, the faint-of-heart or the easily-offended. It contains graphic word-play and smart innuendo….
B. Rustin Mound City NorthStar

Reading Confessions... of a faithful woman was like setting off on a journey of intense sensuality. Though fictional, the characters felt real - they're funny, sad, loving, confused, hurt, joyful, peaceful, searching, feisty and full of truth and depth. It was as if they could be everyday people that I know, me even. Each story and poem captured my imagination and opened my mind and spirit to new ideas and the true depth of intimacy and sharing. More than 200, almost 300 pages that pratically turned themselves as I read and was consumed by the freedom, pleasure and passion on each. Milele's Confessions... does not stop with the physicality of our connections, but goes deeper and explores the spirituality of our intimacy. AND this is only the first in a SERIES! Milele is off to a very good start, as I anxiously await more.
Trust me, this is a book you want to read, and with an open mind you may discover something new about yourself. I did
~DFY