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Thumper
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Username: Thumper
Post Number: 458
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, June 01, 2006 - 06:58 pm: | 
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Hello All,
See, before I left for school, I left you all a long ass-ted list of books to read and YAWL AIN'T READ 'EM! I'M HOT!! Yawl should still be talking about Olympia Vernon's new book, A Killing in This Town! My Lord that woman can sho nuff WRITE! I am in the middle of the book and I am LOVING THE HELL OUT OF IT!
A Killing in This Town is about a young white 13 year old boy, in a Mississippi town, as a manhood ritual has to call a black man out of the black man's home, drag him and lynch him. The book is da BOMB! The story, naturally, reminded me most of Faulkner. Her writing style has mature, while it deepened, there is space and air around the words and phrases. Her writing has now achieved grace. I'm loving this book! So, if you really are in the market for an excellent book, here's one that you should not ignore. |
Troy
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Username: Troy
Post Number: 377
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, June 01, 2006 - 11:25 pm: |
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(Vintage Thumper reccomendation) Y'all don't just sit there looking at your screens, click the link below and buy the book!
A Killing in This Town by Olympia Vernon
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0802118135/ref=nosim/aalbccom-20
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Yukio
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Username: Yukio
Post Number: 1275
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, June 01, 2006 - 11:46 pm: |
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I got it . . . gonna begin reading it in july! |
Crystal
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Username: Crystal
Post Number: 270
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, June 02, 2006 - 01:23 pm: |
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All right, all right I'll get it. Dang, you ain't got to yell at a sista!
I'm reading After by Marita Golden right now. She writes beautifully! I feel like I really know these people. |
Carey
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Username: Carey
Post Number: 479
Registered: 05-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, June 02, 2006 - 03:40 pm: |
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Crystal, is that you? Could you be from Cali? If so Heeeeey.....long time huh. |
Crystal
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Username: Crystal
Post Number: 271
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, June 02, 2006 - 03:44 pm: |
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Yeah, its me. Good to see you back here. Now try to behave yourself! |
Carey
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Username: Carey
Post Number: 480
Registered: 05-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, June 02, 2006 - 04:32 pm: |
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**BIG SMILE **
Okay, I can do that....I'll try ): (563) |
Carey
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Username: Carey
Post Number: 481
Registered: 05-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, June 03, 2006 - 01:54 pm: |
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Switchboard?...try me again. |
1rudebway
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Username: 1rudebway
Post Number: 1
Registered: 08-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, August 01, 2006 - 04:15 pm: |
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Olympia Vernon is a gifted Southern writer who has managed to eschew labels and comparisons to Black/African-American/Women writers. She is a sensual writer of realism whose touch of the absurd is so well written, it appears as poetry; although it is rooted in the reality of the psychic pain and trauma of those affected by poverty, race, and injustice. I have and will continue to love her spirit. I once told her that she was another American treasure, and her works have borne that out. |
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