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NeeCee
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, June 23, 2003 - 04:45 pm: | 
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Are there any upcoming books that you can't wait to get your hands on? You feel like screaming from the anticipation? If so, what is the title and name of the author. |
Tee C. Royal
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, June 23, 2003 - 07:23 pm: |
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ROFL...crack fiend huh? That's too funny. I don't have it THAT bad, but I am looking forward to reading E. Lynn's Memoir; Tananarive Due's next book, The Good House; Margaret Johnson Hodge's upcoming book, A Journey to Here, and quite a few others. There are also a lot of books recently released that I'd like to read. The top of the list is Minion--despite what y'all said. <grin>
-Tee |
akaivyleaf
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, June 24, 2003 - 10:59 am: |
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Crack fiend... never been called that before, but I have so many books that I just can't wait to read I don't know which book to start when I finish another.
I'm like Tee, I want to Read E.Lynn Harris and Tananarive Due most especially and I want to get caught up with Harry Potter but they will have to wait a time. |
NeeCee
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, June 24, 2003 - 01:32 pm: |
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I am anxious to read the E. Lynn memoirs as well as Diamond Life by Sheila Copeland.
P.S. I have no idea what a crack fiend acts like; maybe that was a rotten analogy but y'all know what I'm talking 'bout. 
Thanks!!
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Crystal
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, June 24, 2003 - 01:44 pm: |
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I'm waiting for Walter Mosley to drop another Fearless Jones book. |
Tee C. Royal
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, June 24, 2003 - 03:57 pm: |
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Crystal, I think he has another book coming out later this year...I vaguely remember talk about it. I'll check and see what I can find out.
NeeCee, is Diamond Life an Arabesque romance or mainstream fiction?
-Tee |
NeeCee
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, June 24, 2003 - 04:52 pm: |
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Tee,
Diamond Life will be mainstream fiction; kinda like Chocolate Star which I enjoyed.
Also, Mosley's newest one will be Fear Itself, another Fearless Jones novel. |
Anonymous
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, June 24, 2003 - 04:56 pm: |
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"The Colossus of New York" by Colson Whitehead, due out in October.
The Charlie Parker biography begun in 1982 by the Hanging Judge. |
NeeCee
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, June 24, 2003 - 05:01 pm: |
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See, I didn't even realize Colson Whitehead had a new book coming out. Great info, thanks.
I have his first book, but never read it. Eeeck. Have around 100 books on the TBR list and it's continually growing. |
Steve
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, June 24, 2003 - 07:06 pm: |
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You're very welcome He was supposedly working on a novel about Band-Aids, don't know if he still is. I think you'll love the Intuitionist.
I have a humungous TBR list, too. Just finished The Trials of Phillis Wheatley by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and before that, Along This Way by James Weldon Johnson. Now I'm halfway through Clifford's Blues by John A. Williams.
Just wanted to say that the Hanging Judge gave Danyel Smith's "More Like Wrestling" a glowing review and in an interview, he singled out Danzy Senna for praise (I've read her novel "Caucasia" but not Danyel Smith's).
Thanks,
Steve
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Anonymous
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, June 26, 2003 - 08:21 am: |
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Colson Whitehead's "Apex Hides the Heart," due out in 2004, might be about Band-Aids.
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Thumper
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, June 26, 2003 - 06:12 pm: |
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Hello All,
The only books that could possibly make me act like a straight crack fiend would be the never-published novel by Zora Neale Hurston titled Baracoon! It's suppose to be out this year or early next year.
Let's see, I haven't heard of Colson Whitehead's new book. I'm going to have to check into that one. Walter Mosley's new book is Fear Itself and it should be available in a couple of weeks, if not now. |
Mike Evans
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, June 27, 2003 - 09:28 am: |
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I'm looking forward to Greg Tate's take on the legacy of Jimi Hendrix Midnight Lightning. Eagerly awaiting the new Walter Mosley. |
NeeCee
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, June 27, 2003 - 01:31 pm: |
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In reference to this subject, are there times when you look forward to a book, but you're let down once you begin reading? It's happened to me quite a few times and I don't like when that happens. Maybe I should calm down and not expect great things from those highly anticipated books, but sometimes it's hard.
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Steve
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, June 27, 2003 - 06:17 pm: |
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Hello Thumper,
I have a question for you. I was browsing through a book at Borders last year, a "writers respond to 9/11" -type book which included a piece by John A. Williams (in which he explained that at the time of the WTC disaster, he was at home in Teaneck, NJ, getting ready to take his wife into Manhattan for a dental appointment). Would you happen to know the name of that book? I've looked but have never been able to find it since. I've just finished Clifford's Blues, which I thought was the best piece of jazz literature I've read (but too recent to be included in Gerald Early's fantastic survey piece called "Jazz and American Literature" in the Oxford Companion to Jazz). I liked Clifford's Blues as much as "The Man Who Cried I Am." Now I'd like to pick up a copy of "Nightsong."
There was a Q & A with Walter Mosley at the NYTimes a few months ago in which he mentioned that he was at work on a novel about a woman jazz singer. By coincidence, his blues novel, RL's Dream, was set on East Sixth Street in the East Village -- during the time I lived on the same street! I admire him for both of his political monographs.
The upcoming Colson Whitehead nonfiction book about NYC is described at Amazon.com: "This 13-part lyric symphony is like E.B. White's "Here Is New York" set to the beat of Ellington or Cage." The new novel, due to be published next year, was mentioned in Poets & Writers magazine a while back and he apparently gave a reading from it recently.
Although neither one has me acting like a drug addict, I'll probably read both Adam Mansbach's next novel (about an Afrocentric Jewish youth) and Stephen L. Carter's, providing the former stays away from jazz, and the latter is not so agenda-driven. Just an opinion.
Thanks very much,
Steve
PS The new Henry Louis Gates Jr. book, "The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters with the Founding Fathers," is available online in abbreviated form as a lecture:
http://www.neh.gov/whoweare/gates/lecture.html |
Thumper
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, June 28, 2003 - 05:38 pm: |
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Hello Steve,
I heard of the 9/11 anthology that you're speaking of but I'm drawing a complete blank.
Walter Mosley: When he was in Indpls speaking, he mentioned that he was working on another book in the same vein as RL's Dream. I loved RL. I was kinda disappointed when he didn't carry on in that same vein.
Colson Whitehead: I was talking to a couple of my reviewers about his New York book and we can't wait to read it. Mainly, I would love to see what he does with New York history. At first glance, the book sounds boring. But based on his last two books, I know he can write, and write extremely well, but can he take the mundane and make it interesting and compelling? Therein lies the rub. We'll see. I'm not going crack addict over the book though, sorry Colson, but my interest is peak.
Steve, Steve, Steve, still haven't forgiven Mansbach? *eyebrow raised* I know we have to different opinions of Shackling Water. I still think it was a very good book and fine debut. I'm looking forward to his next one as well. Carter on the other hand, well, I'm not particularly moved at the prospect. When I get my hands on it, and the book happens to be over 300 pages, I'm going to have issues with it.
The Wheatley book sounds most interesting. Will have to check it out. Thanks for the link.
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