Reviews for Pay Day

The average rating for Pay Day based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-12-22 00:00:00 Jason Du preez Weird book, like a poor man's Ulysses about a douchey guy wandering around NYC on the night Sacco and Vanzetti are being executed. Barely forces its way into his consciousness, though.

Review # 2 was written on 2011-11-21 00:00:00 Felipe Carvalho I loved this book! The amount of research she did without the Internet is astonishing! I listened to the audible version on LibreVox and then found the PDF so I could read side-by-side while I was working, and when I wanted to look at the illustrations. I would highly suggest doing this if you are not familiar with the Kentucky accent. My grandparents were from Kansas and Kentucky and I loved hearing it again, although to be honest, I don't think I could have read it and understood what she was saying. And oh how I loved the women's stories! Especially the one in chapter 4 where she compared quilting and calicos with predestination and free will. Here was an uneducated women, but what intelligence and insightfullness she had. Taking such a complex topic and making it clear and concise with a beautiful simplicity. It showcases the unsung heroic efforts of the under valued women of history who, out of nothing, created a warm, comfortable and beautiful home and hearth. Such ingenuity, creativity, industriousness and perseverance. I think we have lost so much of the community and quality of life, even in poverty, that was the norm back then. Our cheap and quick consumers mentality has robbed us of so many things. Our clothes, furnishings, food, and relationships are not the quality they once were. I love the current movement of reclaiming what our grandparents knew of gardening, sewing, cooking and craftsmanship. We have a window of opportunity here to turn it around and teach the coming generations these skills before they are lost and forgotten. All that being said, the ending was very disappointing. I literally said out loud "Wait, what, that's the ending?", stopped what I was doing and read the pdf trying to figure out what I had missed. Instead of a random story that did not really depict what was intended, I wished she had wrapped it up with some final encouraging words of her own.