Today's Hideously Upsetting Thing
Deals with the Holocaust, anti-Semitism, and romance novels.
A writer named Kate Breslin wrote a romance novel about the director of a concentration camp in WWII and a Jewish prisoner interned therein, where the Jewish woman converts to Christianity, and is blocking Jewish people who try to discuss this with her on Twitter She has the full support of the Romance Writers of America and the book has been receiving kudos and awards nominations.
Normally I would reblog Bibliogato's posts about this on Tumblr where I found them, but I can't bear to reread them. It makes me feel so ill that Ms. Breslin thought this was a good idea and how many people support her in this.
So I've put links here, because I had to signal boost this somehow. If this book is receiving so many accolades the criticism of it should be heard as well.
A writer named Kate Breslin wrote a romance novel about the director of a concentration camp in WWII and a Jewish prisoner interned therein, where the Jewish woman converts to Christianity, and is blocking Jewish people who try to discuss this with her on Twitter She has the full support of the Romance Writers of America and the book has been receiving kudos and awards nominations.
Normally I would reblog Bibliogato's posts about this on Tumblr where I found them, but I can't bear to reread them. It makes me feel so ill that Ms. Breslin thought this was a good idea and how many people support her in this.
So I've put links here, because I had to signal boost this somehow. If this book is receiving so many accolades the criticism of it should be heard as well.
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Thanks for the alert on this. bb.
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If it helps any, most of what I've seen about this is reactions similar to yours and your friends'. Presumably a lot of people must have liked the book, since it got nominated for an award but the folks in my neck of the internet aren't those people.
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The author would do damn well to read Timothy Snyder's 'Bloodlands' and before anyone here rushes off to find it, PLEASE be in a good place first!
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now we see the violence inherent in the system
Hmm. The Boston Public Library system has two copies. Do I dare...?
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I suppose RWA has to support it as a freedom-of-speech thing. But I do wonder who is giving out the kudos and awards nominations. Are they people we have any reason to take seriously?
OTOH, there are some very odd undercurrents in the romance genre. If I remember the description correctly, Sweet, Savage Love was a long tale of the heroine being kidnapped and raped by a series of powerful men. Eventually she gets back to her husband and rapes him at knifepoint. And it was one of the most successful romance novels of all time. Given that as context, the book you describe doesn't seem so odd.
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