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Have a wonderful birthday!!! I'd sing ya a song, but trust me, typing is safer on the senses~

Welp...a quarter of the way through The Bluest Eye, I realized that the characters sounded vaguely familiar. A little further, and I remembered... I've read this book before, and the experience was traumatic...not because it was a terrible book (it was a great book), but rather because I had to read it & discuss it in mixed company. This book was something I had to read in a high school literature class. I want to say I was probably a freshman or sophomore. I hated trying to "explain" the many different things going on in this book to my white classmates (although there were only a few of them). They never seemed to get it, or to even try. Even the teacher (who was white) was somewhat patronizing in her teaching of "what the author is trying to say." In the end, the reading experience ended up tossed into the back of my mind with the rest of the stuff I'd rather forget. Then it happened again in college when the literature assignment was Beloved. Again, same thing, only this time there were like 18 white kids to our 2 blacks in the class. And we 2 clung together and defiantly dared anybody to offend us during the discussion of this book. That experience was a little better than the high school one, although I still didn't feel comfortable "explaining" the color issue - light vs dark, and things of that nature. Nevertheless, revisiting Morrison at this new stage in my life has been a good thing. I'm glad I'm taking the time.

I wasn't saying her exaggeration was the only factor It just played a part with understanding the pyscho-demographics (mentality of the target audience) of buyers she wanted to serve There's no coincidence that authors come up with gimmicks and street teams to draw readers in, especially since we're living in a microwave society where people unofficially got ADD...it's hard to keep up their attention It takes A LOT for our people to buy books...especially the casual reader You got authors selling their books damn near half naked at vendors just to get a sale As far as Mejah, that bookstore is located at a Mall is that is "dead"...the movie theatre that was once there is boarded up, and hardly anyone goes there...the location is in the middle of nowhere Urban/Street Fiction is keeping A LOT of businesses open...I normally don't read them...however, I can't deny their economical power