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Posted: Sunday December 12th, 2004 19:50 |
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 angels and demons dan brown- thick ass book but worth the thrill
maya angelous biography
disapearing acts-terry mcmillian
soul of a woman-collective writing ny black authors
thers my addition4now.
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Posted: Sunday December 12th, 2004 22:59 |
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Taysense wrote: Thanx Kwela! I will have to see the movie myself.
I have to agree with your analysis of things fall apart, well written novel with multiple types of literary devices. It's a sad fact of european colonisium, looking to redeem themselves by usurping their religious views on people who they percieve to be primitive
I never knew their was a sequel, I will look for it. Thanx
You can get the book, in your local library, saves you having to buy it, just it case it dosen't appeal to you.
Another book i'm reading at present. Islam's Black Slaves, by Ronald Segal, it's basically a history of Africa's other Black Diaspora, The author is black, it gives an insight into slavery amongst black people, specifically within the Islamic culture. It's heavy going, but it has educated on yet another aspect of history i had no knowledge of. or should i say, chose not to believe.
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Posted: Thursday December 23rd, 2004 14:56 |
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Right now I am currently reading Beloved. I'm on page 58 and I gotta say it feels so new to me. There's no denying that the book is always better than the movie because you get so much insight on the character thoughts and feelings. Not to mention there's so much that you get in the book that you don't get in the movie. For instance, in the movie and in the book Paul D is portrayed as a decent hardworking man, for which I can't dispute, However what the movie didn't tell me (or maybe I just missed it, which I doubt) was that when Paul D was part of the Sweet Home men in Kentucky, he and his crew didn't have much contact with women so they resorted to beastiality in which they would have sexual contact with cows. When I read that I was like Jesus Christ and I thought we had it bad with these down low brothers.
I have two other books that I intend to read after Beloved. One of them is the Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat. She's the author of Krik? Krak! which is one of the books I talked about on this site. Anyway since I didn't read it yet I will post the synopsis so you all can see for yourselves...
From the Book Jacket:
From the universally acclaimed author of Breath, Eyes, Memory and Krik? Krak!, a brilliant, deeply moving work of fiction that explores the world of a "dew breaker"—a torturer—a man whose brutal crimes in the country of his birth lie hidden beneath his new American reality.
We meet him late in his life. He is a quiet man, a husband and father, a hardworking barber, a kindly landlord to the men who live in a basement apartment in his home. He is a fixture in his Brooklyn neighborhood, recognizable by the terrifying scar on his face. As the book unfolds, moving seamlessly between Haiti in the 1960s and New York City today, we enter the lives of those around him: his devoted wife and rebellious daughter; his sometimes unsuspecting, sometimes apprehensive neighbors, tenants, and clients. And we meet some of his victims.
In the book’s powerful denouement, we return to the Haiti of the dew breaker’s past, to his last, desperate act of violence, and to his first encounter with the woman who will offer him a form of redemption—albeit imperfect—that will change him forever.
The Dew Breaker is a book of interconnected lives—a book of love, remorse, and hope; of rebellions both personal and political; of the compromises we often make in order to move beyond the most intimate brushes with history. Unforgettable, deeply resonant, The Dew Breaker proves once more that in Edwidge Danticat we have a major American writer.
Another book that I'm going to read (as a matter of fact I'm going to read it right after Beloved because after I finish reading that, I don't think I can go on to something else that's deep. I'll need time to recover so I'll save Danticat for last) How to Make Love Like A Porn Star by Jenna Jameson. Anyone who's familiar with porn should already know who Jenna Jameson is. The book isn't really about how to make love like a porn star (though I'm sure she has a few pointers) but it's actually an autobiography. I thought it would be interesting and fun to read. I also might add that the book also has some photo's that are like WHOA!!!
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Another book that I plan to read in the future is Smells Like Chicken by my girl Miss Lolita Files. Taste Like Chicken is like the third installment of the lives of my two girls Misty Fine and Reesy. What I like about them is that they're career women but yet they're sexy savvy and all around divas with lots of attitude. Before you read TLC I advise anyone to read Scenes from a Sistah and Getting to the Good Part so you can truly appreciate the Misty Fine and Reesy experience!
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Posted: Saturday May 7th, 2005 14:12 |
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NO Doubt about it, "Sins of My MOther" http://www.sinsofmymother.com
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