Comments on: Your June to-do list http://robinbrande.com/reading/your-june-to-do-list For writers, readers, and independent thinkers--book talk for readers and writers, life chats when we need them, writers' motivational articles, secret behind-the-scenes stories from the publishing trenches, and more. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:31:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: bj http://robinbrande.com/reading/your-june-to-do-list#comment-124 bj Fri, 02 Jun 2006 15:12:27 +0000 http://robinbrande.com/reading/your-june-to-do-list#comment-124 Another one to put on that reading list, though it might be a challenge since the copyright is 1997-- The Runaway, by Terry Kay. I haven't finished it yet but I was already in love with it on the first page. The first two words are "Conjure Woman" and you can't tell me that doesn't wanna make you read more. Not only is it a ripping good story, but it's also centered around a very interesting premise-- that desegregation in the South was inevitable after WWII and that Freedom Marchers and Martin Luther King were the results of that, and not the catalysts. Why? Because the white Southern US soldiers experienced not only other folks from other cultures outside their own, but also witnessed the atrocities of Nazi Germany, and, as a result, had to distance themselves mentally from that behavior. Very thought provoking. Another one to put on that reading list, though it might be a challenge since the copyright is 1997– The Runaway, by Terry Kay. I haven’t finished it yet but I was already in love with it on the first page. The first two words are “Conjure Woman” and you can’t tell me that doesn’t wanna make you read more.

Not only is it a ripping good story, but it’s also centered around a very interesting premise– that desegregation in the South was inevitable after WWII and that Freedom Marchers and Martin Luther King were the results of that, and not the catalysts. Why? Because the white Southern US soldiers experienced not only other folks from other cultures outside their own, but also witnessed the atrocities of Nazi Germany, and, as a result, had to distance themselves mentally from that behavior. Very thought provoking.

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