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Ferociouskitty
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Username: Ferociouskitty
Post Number: 595
Registered: 02-2008
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, February 05, 2009 - 08:28 am: | 
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Or so it seemed to [Clarence King's] friends, who became used to his unexpected absences and thought of him as a perennial bachelor. Their impressions of him went no further. What they did not know was that when King was not living in various clubs and hotels, he was married and the father of five children. He was deeply devoted to his wife, Ada, a black woman 19 years his junior. This blue-eyed man, descended from signers of the Magna Carta, had successfully cultivated the impression that he was black too.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/05/books/05masl.html?emc=eta1 |
Thumper
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Username: Thumper
Post Number: 778
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, February 05, 2009 - 09:07 am: |
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Hello All,
Thanks, FK. I'm going to have to check this one out. |
Ferociouskitty
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Username: Ferociouskitty
Post Number: 596
Registered: 02-2008
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, February 05, 2009 - 09:15 am: |
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You're welcome, Thumper. I'd enjoy reading your take on this one. |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 13501
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, February 05, 2009 - 04:35 pm: |
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They say "truth is stranger than fiction" and this book certainly sounds like something that would whet my appetite for different reading fare. |
Thumper
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Username: Thumper
Post Number: 816
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, March 08, 2009 - 11:37 pm: |
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Hello All,
I just got my copy of Passing Strange. I'm afraid I'm going to have to move it up on my "to read list". I was telling my mother a summary of the book and we both ended up giggling. |
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