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guess I never thought I had a "pop culture" addiction. At the stage
in my life, I typically take things as they are and do not give it a second
though or have to continue its "following." But if I have to say that
I have a "pop culture" addiction I would have to say that they are
television and books. In television, I was, is and still addicted to watching
the television soap opera "Dallas". My curiosity is constantly filled
with what happened to who next, how they will get out of this predicament, as
well as what the hell they were thinking about. I have old VHS tapes of the
original Dallas show from the 80's and 90's as well as currently DVRing the
current Dallas series that comes on TNT. Although I cannot sit and watch them
now, I look forward to holidays and weekends (when available) to watch all the
episodes while eating popcorn as I watch in disgust as each plot unfolds before
my eager eyes. My second and favorite "pop culture" addition is
reading books by Patricia Cornwell and Kimberla Lawson Roby. Not only do I love
reading these women's books but these are book series that cover two totally
different ends of the spectrum in the human world but yet we come across these
problems each day in some way. Patricia Cornwell has a series of book based on
the "adventures" of a medical examiner named Kay Scarpetta. You can a
lot of Cornwell in each of these book because the main character has an Italian
background, is now single after a divorce, has worked in state medical
examiner's office, and has studied medicine as well as law. Kay Scarpetta has
lived in many cities in many different states but always manages to stay close
to her hometown in Florida. She works many difficult cases in which he FBI
calls upon her to help when the pieces of the puzzle don't quite fit as they
should. It always amazes me when each story takes different turns and twists
but somehow it is not quite an end to the mystery but a solution to what may have
happened and to get a more solid conclusion. On the other end of the spectrum
of reading you have Kimberla Lawson Roby who writes a lot of Christian fiction
but it put the characters of high position into everyday situation that we all
fit into. She writes about how a man of God can be a whore when it comes to
women, how the pastor's daughter can follow into her father's footsteps, and
when one commits a sin (or a crime) how one can be able to overcome to rise up
(or re-rise) to a prominent position within the church. I love that each
book is a “soap opera” as well because it is a never ending story about
churches, ministers, pastors, as well as their families. Plus it doesn’t hurt
that Kimberla Lawson Roby is a black women who shows a lot of sides without criticizing religious figures.
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