tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2544423363652935600.post2233171576486815515..comments2023-05-15T05:28:09.778-05:00Comments on crossroads and currents by tom ryan: Kathryn Stockett’s The Help and Minny’s chocolate pieTom Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13752149104120912594noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2544423363652935600.post-82363128030646400432011-07-03T07:24:16.940-05:002011-07-03T07:24:16.940-05:00correction: "because other book clubs read it...correction: "because other book clubs read it ?"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2544423363652935600.post-40166471566949500542011-07-03T07:23:40.808-05:002011-07-03T07:23:40.808-05:00correction: "because other book clubs read it...correction: "because other book clubs read it ?"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2544423363652935600.post-71093706666398603622011-07-02T22:50:31.290-05:002011-07-02T22:50:31.290-05:00My family decided to have a sort of book club at C...My family decided to have a sort of book club at Christmas and most of us read The Help before traveling to Pennsylvania. I think the book was selected by my sister-in-law, a white girl & M. Div. who sang in an all black gospel choir when in school... <br /><br />I lived in Mississippi for four years.<br /> <br />What gets me about this writing is the regular cadence of pulling out all the stops, whether the pie or an impossible number of commodes on someone's front lawn (and by the way, wasn't heaping them there a deadly risk to the black men the lead character enlisted to help her?)... <br /><br />I am bothered that this author thinks I need to be wowed right and left and wonder why so many people seem to think this is good writing -- maybe because their book club chose the book because another book clubs read it ?<br /><br />Stockett: "I opened my 40th rejection: 'There is no market for this kind of tiring writing.'"<br />"In the end, I received 60 rejections for The Help. But letter number 61 was the one that accepted me."<br />http://bit.ly/mJBZJp<br /><br />"Kathryn Stockett ...worked in magazine publishing and marketing for nine years."<br /><br />"Stockett did phone-ins with more than 50 reading groups as well as visited more than 30 communities to promote her new novel."<br />http://bit.ly/4XHaAv<br /><br /><br />I read the Divine Secrets of the Ya-ya Sisterhood and liked it at the time. Read Zora Neale Hurston as a student of a black nun, my professor.<br /><br />MCAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com