Kathy’s Comments (group member since Sep 30, 2013)

Kathy’s comments from the Reader with a Cause group.

I read it back in June and I'm really looking forward to the discussion!

Welcome to the group, Little White Bird! And thanks for your comment.

I did read that, and, ok, fine, but there are other avenues besides mainstream networks to present the stories of non/blond, non-middle -class prisoners. Did she even try to get the network to accept an alternative heroine? A different story? So once again poor women, women of color, lesbians, bisexual and trans women are backgrounded to the pretty white middle class heroine in the foreground.

Thanks for posting those NY Times links. The letters in response to the second article express exactly why I haven't been able to bring myself to read this book or watch the TV show. I've enjoyed reading everyone's comments though!

I think it's interesting that the author said, in the article you posted the link to, "I want books that give me insights into how people's minds work and hearts work..." because that is how I think this book failed me. I look for the same things in books but in this one I didn't find that, at least not with respect to Amy because no one is so one-dimensional that she always thinks of everything and ends up on top.

Rene, I wondered about the same thing, but after I finished the book, I really thought that surely people wouldn't think that because this character, Amy, is so unbelievable that surely no one could think that anyone would really be able to be so devious, having perfect insight into the future to prepare for every eventuality. This is also why I ultimately didn't like the book. It was clever but the characters were just unreal.

Amazon has The Outlander by Gil Anderson available on Kindle for $1.99 today as part of their daily deal. It looks like it could be an interesting read for this group.

Thanks, Zoli! This sounds like an interesting book!

Like many others, once I started it, I quickly read on through to the end. I enjoyed the cleverness of it, and the snarkiness, but ultimately I was left with the feeling that I'd wasted my time in reading it. A clever mental exercise for the author, interesting while reading to see if she would pull it off, and she did, but so what?

Hi, I'm Kathy and I'm the communications specialist for the Tennessee Coalition to End Domestic and Sexual Violence. I read mostly nonfiction: memoir, biography, history, nature and science, and other random topics. For fiction, I tend to prefer literary fiction, something well-written and thought-provoking. I did finally read Gone Girl, and I look forward to discussing it in this group. Other DV/SA themed books that are on my radar are Yes Means Yes, Domestic Violence at the Margins, and Hate 3.0 (which isn't out yet).