1/4/14 RMB What
We Know
Dear Rita Mae
Brown,
Today was a
Sensational Saturday. After finishing Gerri Hill’s One Summer Night, I wrote
to her that she has addictive writing. Since picking up fiction, in addition to
the Rita Mae Brown novels I am enjoying, I have read the majority of Gerri
Hill’s twenty or so books in print. Each one held my attention and was a
pleasure to read, the kind of book that one has trouble putting down. Some
remind me of Alma Mater, love stories told well with a bit of intrigue as life’s
twists and turns make “happy ever after” an elusive target.
The value of
books that show alternate lifestyles is immeasurable. Hers do as yours have
done, whether the main theme is a love story between two women or the mention
of an interracial couple in the mix, seeing all people in our many shades and
ways, reminds us that those people
exist.
We
protect what we love and we love what we know. ~Jacques Cousteau
I would like
to say that it was not so long ago that books like these and their authors were
challenged in ways too numerous to mention. Unfortunately, such challenges
still occur daily all around the globe. Along with knowing one another, we must
know of the many who face daily what we have overcome, lest we become complacent
and lose the ground gained towards a better tomorrow.
Still
reading,
Loraine
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