conuly

On the downside, today I got a new comment on my review of A Gardener's Alphabet. Now, you probably don't recall, but the first comment I got on there was from a woman who has Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s niece as her child's godmother, which makes her qualified to talk about why we can't ever question the need for a book to have only white people in it. (I laugh every time I think about that comment. I bet she goes to parties just ITCHING for a chance to pull that one out!)

Today's comment wasn't much better, but at least this person doesn't type like a drunken fool. Apparently, if I want to see books with non-whites in them, I should just go write them myself!

Thanks, but no thanks. How about this: If I want to see books with non-whites in them, I'll continue to purchase books with an eye of maintaining an acceptable level of diversity on my bookcase, and I'll continue to make reviews explaining my choices whenever I feel it is necessary so that other people with this desire can be more informed instead of less informed.

THAT requires far less effort than - GOD! - writing a book and getting published!

However, in GOOD news, I have on my lap right now a copy of "Tomorrow's Alphabet". And out of the six people (hands, foot) shown in the book, there are, count 'em, six different skin tones! This is what I want to see as a matter of course. It shouldn't be an amazing surprise that a book features different kinds of people. (Well, I say features. There aren't many people in the book at all.)