OH THE AGGRO BLOGSPOT!!

Recently the Blogspot website made several changes, one of them being the elimination of the NEXT BLOG button that was at the top of every screen.  This means the participants on Blogspot.com can no longer page through blogs at random easily.  No longer being able to do this cuts down on the community feeling of belonging to a social network such as blogspot.com.

Not having the NEXT BLOG button also means it changes the flow of hits we bloggers get to our blogs every day.  Oh the aggro Blogspot!! Even if the NEXT BLOG button wasn't popular or used much it was still necessary to retain  sense of community for participants.  Ugh!!

What do you think about the recent changes to the blogspot website?

SWING TIME by Zadie Smith

SWING TIME  is one of Zadie Smith's more recent novels.  It was published in 2016 and it starts out with most of the action taking place in the 1990's as two multi racial girls are growing up in England.  The story describes a neat moment in time as these two girls come of age.  Lots of 90's pop culture is delightfully thrown into this mix as well.  Parts of the story also take place in the United States and in Africa.  

The two girls meet in dance class and become friends.  Dance is also woven into the story with mention being made of some famous dancers the girls watched on videos.  Then the subject of Dance comes back up as one girl journeys to Africa in adulthood.  The title Swing Time is probably in reference to the dancers the girls watched on videos from the era of the 30's, 40's or 50's. I looked up one of the dancer's on You Tube, Jeni LeGon, that I actually had never heard of before. 

Zadie Smith is the bestselling author of WHITE TEETH and ON BEAUTY.  She is multi racial herself and writes extensively on this subject.   She also writes about multiculturalism.