Filed under: Letters of Opinion, Misc
Today’s topic is a follow up on last week’s wherein I wished for two things a) for grittier romance books and b) for those romance books that include gritty elements, to treat those elements seriously.
One of the responses that I heard was that readers like to be entertained and not issued to death. I don’t know when the two (entertainment and serious books) became mutually exclusive. The fact is I read issue books every night, except most of the time they are books I read to my four year old.
That’s right. Sneetchs. Nearly every children’s book out there is an issue book. My favorite ones are the Dr. Seuss stories. My four year old’s favorite Dr. Seuss is “Sneetches and Other Stories.” My DD always asks me if I will read “all stories” in the book. It contains four, all of which revolve around the issue of bias or prejudice and the danger of sameness. Prejudice comes at a cost. For the Sneetches, all their money was spent trying to maintain their illusory differences–the stars on their bellies.
The first story is the headliner: Sneetches. For those who haven’t …
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