No, you didn’t miss a post. We weren’t actually speaking of celebrity authors. It’s just one of my favorite gripes so . . . here we go again.
Kylie Minogue has apparently written a children’s book now. Don’t know her? Just plug her name into Google and look at the pictures that come up. What could this women possibly have to say to children? Use a condom?
I mean she seems to want to follow in Madonna’s g-string. And the article says that Madonna “has written five books for children so far, all of which contain strong moral messages and multiracial and denominational characters, as well as being beautifully illustrated.”
So I wouldn’t be surprised if Kylie is also putting out a moral message.
OK I’m sorry. Even people who don’t have a shred of self-respect may have something to say that others want to hear. So, seriously, what’s the book about? Well Puffin says it, “will appeal to little princesses everywhere who love to have fun” and that “little girls who dream of dressing up and going on stage” will enjoy it.
Excuse me but I think you meant to say little girls who dream of undressing and going on stage will enjoy it. Unless Kylie has broken one of the cardinal rules of writing and has written what she doesn’t know.
But go read the article. It gives a roundup of celebs who have written books, from directors to super models. It’s a very popular pastime, this writing of children’s books.
I’m with Herbie Brennan, who says:
“To my mind, if a celebrity writes a good book, I think that’s brilliant because the name means it will reach a wider audience than before. If it’s a bad book, I think the publisher should be ashamed of themselves, because then it’s just a commercial proposition.”
Except I don’t think the publishers should be ashamed for making money off of idiot consumers. I think they ought to be ashamed for putting out books written by amoral women. Why does anyone give Madonna the time of day? Why not just ignore her? Well, I know why men don’t ignore her. But why on earth would any mother introduce her daughter to this woman?
Georgiana Walsh has a daughter who is four and is “already a fan of both Madonna’s books and her music.” Yikes!
When Georgina Walsh, Alex’s mother, read ‘The English Roses’ with Alex last week, it brought up an unexpected issue.
“I think there’s always a big message in the Madonna books,” says Georgina. “‘The English Roses’ sparked this conversation about death and Alex is four years old! She said, ‘Are you going to die?’ and I said, no. Then she said, ‘but you’re going to get old and die.’ Death stopped us in the middle of reading for a good 10 minutes. I ended up promising I won’t die,” she says, laughing.
It sounds to me like the four-year-old is the smarter of the two. Still, the poor little thing doesn’t have much chance in life. Lord, have mercy. And I mean that as a serious prayer.
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Carefully Sally, your thinly disguised hatred for mankind is showing. Who are you to judge these women as ‘amoral’ just because they don’t subscribe to your particular moral code. Doesn’t your own medieval faith state ‘Judge nor less ye be judged”?
Oh, and here, Steve, I’ll give you some ammo. I’m fat and middle-aged. So now you can write off anything I say about sexy young women as being the envious rantings of a bitter old woman.
I believe that Madonna is amoral because I believe she really thinks there is nothing wrong with the way she lives. I believe that she’s convinced herself that God is fine with what she is doing.
If you want to pick at that, it’s not a hill I’m willing to die on. She may not be amoral. She may simply be immoral.
The Bible says, “Judge not, that ye be not judged.” It tells us that in the same measure that we use when we measure out mercy, so will mercy be measured out to us. I thought it was more merciful to judge her as being amoral–not having any concept of right and wrong–than to judge her as being immoral–knowing full well that what she does is wrong and doing it anyway. I was trying to give her the benefit of the doubt.