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Tee C. Royal
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, March 11, 2003 - 12:54 pm: | 
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What is everyone reading? Just read? Or getting ready to read?
-Tee |
akaivyleaf
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, March 11, 2003 - 03:45 pm: |
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I just finished a Non AA book for another on line reading club entitled Never Change by Elizbeth Berg. I'm currently reading, A Taste of Reality, and The Sex Chronicles. Zane's book is more interesting to say the least so I'll be finished with it tonight. I have too many books to name on my TBR pile... and then I get recommendation from one list or the other and it is ever increasing. |
Tee C. Royal
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, March 11, 2003 - 05:24 pm: |
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LOL sis, I know the feeling!!! I haven't been reading much lately except email, so I'm playing catch-up. The last book I read was The Best Man by Cindi Louis, Brenda Jackson, Felicia Mason and Kayla Perrin. I liked all the stories except one which was okay, I just had issues with it.
I am thinking of reading Shattered Vessels by Nancey Flowers next...I'm so behind! In addition, I want to read A Quiet Storm and Momma's Baby, Daddy's Mabye (I hope the title is right). LOL.
It's only the 11th, so I hope to read at least 3-4 more books this month in between all the email.
-Tee |
Yvette
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, March 11, 2003 - 08:34 pm: |
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I just finished The Ecstatic by Victor LaValle and Welcome to the World Baby Girl by Fannie Flagg. I'm currently reading The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd. After that, I'll probably be starting Magic City by Jewel Parker Rhodes. |
GG
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, March 12, 2003 - 08:40 pm: |
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I also just finished reading The Ecstatic by Victor LaValle and Raising Fences by Michael Datcher. I am still trying to catch up from the last two years and stay current at the same time. From the looks of this discussion board, I could NEVER - EVER keep up with you guys. I am totally amazed and impressed with of the amount of reading you all do, it is truly a great thing to witness. I'll probably start reading ERASURE by Percival Everett, been meaning to get to it for some time now. |
Tee C Royal
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, March 12, 2003 - 09:02 pm: |
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GG, Yvette...please say you'll discuss The Ecstatic with me. I've been looking for someone to discuss this book with since November. If so...we can start a new thread. :-)
-Tee |
Yvette
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, March 12, 2003 - 09:14 pm: |
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Hi Tee,
I am definitely willing to discuss The Ecstatic with you. I'll start by asking what you thought of it overall and then we can go from there. |
Yvette
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, March 12, 2003 - 09:25 pm: |
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Hi GG,
You're right! There are some heavyweight readers on this board. I'm just trying to do my best to keep up, but just about everytime I visit the board, I'm adding one or two books to my "to read list", which, by the way, is too long to even talk about. I've also read Raising Fences, by Michael Datcher and Erasure, by Percival Everett. I really enjoyed Erasure and if you liked the Ecstatic by LaValle, I'm sure you will like Erasure also. |
Sis E
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 13, 2003 - 08:40 am: |
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Hi Everybody,
Don't laugh, but I just finished Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. It's the book choice of our county's Read Together project hosted by our library system. I hadn't read the book before. It takes place in 2053. Bradbury wrote it in 1953. My first question to myself after reading it was, "Where's the Black folks?"
Any thoughts on this book? |
akaivyleaf
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 13, 2003 - 08:49 am: |
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I want to discuss The Ecstatic with you all too, if you don't mind. Who is going to start the new thread?
Sis E, I read Farenheit 451 when I was in High school or Early College and I immediately thought the same thing. It seemed as if the utopia was devoid of any color. |
Tee C. Royal
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 13, 2003 - 09:50 am: |
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Yvette, they do read a lot don't they? <grin> I've given up on maintaining a small "to read list"...but it is so fun seeing what everyone else read and their thoughts on it. I have Raising Fences and Erasure on my list...
Sis E, girl, we won't laugh at'cha....LOL, I read that in High School I believe...and yep, I had the same thought. I'd probably like to read it again as I like sci-fi. <grin> Speaking of, y'all should check out SexLife by a.a. clifford (Gary Hardwick). Not sure if I told y'all about this or not, but it's sci-fi and I really enjoyed it. The general premise is a world in which you HAVE to have sex five times a day in order to survive. All of the love and emotions are removed and the easiest parallel is to compare it to medicine. In order to live, the people have to have sex... I'll stop there, but it was quite interesting, a world I couldn't imagine though.
As for The Ecstatic, I moved the topic to a new thread to keep it fresh. |
Troy
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 13, 2003 - 10:11 am: |
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I just finished "Threesome" by Branda Thomas, "The Envy of the World: On Being a Black Man in America" by Ellis Cose and I'm currently reading "Basic Ecconomic a Citizen's Guide to the Economy" by Thomas Sowell, "Althea" by Linda Watkins, and The "The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature" by Steven Pinker.
I finished "Threesome" in a day is was a quick and interesting read. As a side, Brenda Thomas just signed a two book deal (I don't recall the publisher).
It will probably take me a few months to get through "The Blank Slate". Nowadays it is tough to find the extra time when I also have the ability concentrate sufficently to absorb Pinker's book.
Sowell's book describes a subject which can be pretty complex, in straight forward layman's term. I have an MBA, but Sowell has shed new light on the subject of ecconomic for me. Since, in theory, I "studied" ecconomics it is almost embarrassing that I'm learning something new in a book with "Basic" in the title. Sowell has a writing style I like. He avoids unneccessary jargon, has a lightly humorous stlye and uses examples which make sense intuitively.
"Althea" like "Threesome" is going to be interesting to read simply because I know the authors personally. Althea is a novella so I hope to be able to get through that one this month.
That's it for this month.
All of the authors I mentioned, with the exception of Pinker are profiled on AALBC.com simply search on their name or book title from the homepage or any AALBC.com page.
Peace
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Crystal
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 13, 2003 - 12:17 pm: |
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Hi all! I'm still trying to read John McWhorter's Authentically Black. I have to keep putting it down cause he keeps getting on my nerves. Although it's generated some interesting discussions with my son. I've got The Upper Room and Erasure lined up in my "catch-up" pile.
For my winter wonderland I'm reading The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory.
Crystal |
Tee C. Royal
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 13, 2003 - 01:02 pm: |
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ROFL...I hate books like that Crystal. I just finished up Always True to You in My Fashion by Valerie Wilson Wesley and am jumping into Shattered Vessels by Nancey Flowers. I'm soooooo behind, I'm praying for a vacation ALONE soon.
Hey Troy, I read Threesome too and it was a really quick read for me as well...I'm glad to hear the author got a book deal. She writes in a conversational tone that I like...it's been awhile since I read the book though.
Erasure is on my list to read one day, though I doubt I get to it before closer to the end of the year.
-Tee |
Sis E
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, March 14, 2003 - 09:30 am: |
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Hi akaivyleaf and Tee C,
About Farinheit 451 -- Bradbury wrote the book in 1953 when McCarthy and the cold war were heating up, but so was the civil rights movement as well as Africa's move again toward independence. He set the book a mere one hundred years later (if my math is right) in 2053 and as we noted, we didn't see NOTHIN' that appeared to have some color in it. Was it because Bradbury deliberately felt people of color were eliminate or assimilated? Or wonder if he wondered about em at all? Or was it just wishful thinking on his part? Or was he making a statement that without people of color the world as we know it would be without real humanity?
Just wonderin' myself. Reading it now and observing the surveillance that goes on at all levels -- the Big Brother mentality -- gives me pause. |
Claxton
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, March 16, 2003 - 08:04 am: |
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First of all, let me say that I'm impressed that there are some black women out there who've read some Ray Bradbury. I've never read Fahrenheit 451, but I have read The Martian Chronicles, which I remember being a pretty good book.
Bradbury's exclusion of blacks in his work is no different than Asimov, Clarke, Heinlein, et al, from back in that period of time. Heinlein's classic, Starship Troopers, focuses on a young man of Anglo descent who grew up in, of all places, Rio de Janiero, and now must fight against the alien invaders threatening Earth. Unfortunately there has been a general dearth of strong black characters in science fiction over the course of time. And typically, when black characters appear, particularly in post-disaster type stories, they are always persecuted by another science-fiction stereotype, the white supremacist looking to capitalize on the chaos. |
yukio
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, March 16, 2003 - 10:21 am: |
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I'm reading Nunez' Grace, Toni Morrison's Tar Baby, and Ngugi's The River Between. I'll read the last two this week and begin Grace sometime in the middle of next week. |
Sis E
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, March 16, 2003 - 03:53 pm: |
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Claxton, thanks for your insight about the general lack of Black characters in science fiction. That helps to add some perspective to the genre. I have read a teeny bit of Asimov and Heinlein from back in the day -- the books are dusty on the shelf now, and I enjoyed the one book I read by Octavia Butler.
Farenheit 451 was the choice for our county library system's countywide "reads together" project.
I guess I actually see more Black characters in sci fi movies these days than read about them. That handsome Wesley Snipes in the Blade series comes to my mind first, and then the brother who played the main character in "Spawn." |
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