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Robynmarie
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Username: Robynmarie
Post Number: 332
Registered: 04-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 01, 2007 - 08:49 am: | 
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I listen to books on CD in my car. I am looking for something fabulous to carry me along my mad travels in L.A. I have discovered an L.A.writer named T.C. Boyle. He is hiliarious. |
Mzuri
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Username: Mzuri
Post Number: 3690
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 01, 2007 - 12:02 pm: |
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I recommend you listen to Matthew Lesko. Six months of listening to him and you'll be ready to quit your day job. |
Ntfs_encryption
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Username: Ntfs_encryption
Post Number: 1921
Registered: 10-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 01, 2007 - 06:30 pm: |
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Working on the "The Kennedy Men" by Laurence Leamer. A laborious read but I love it.
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Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 7552
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 01, 2007 - 06:51 pm: |
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I'm reading the "Book of Names", a kind of Jewish version of the DaVinci Code. This book was passed along to me by a friend who recommended it. So far it's holding my interest. |
Robynmarie
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Username: Robynmarie
Post Number: 338
Registered: 04-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 01, 2007 - 10:29 pm: |
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These all sound good. I'll have to find them on tape or CD. Seems like all the books on tape at my bootleg public library are urban fiction baby mama drama crud. LOL |
Yvettep
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Username: Yvettep
Post Number: 1714
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, March 02, 2007 - 01:03 pm: |
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Just picked up Medical Apartheid and Math and the Mona Lisa. I think that, like King Leopold's Ghost, the former is one that I wll have to read in small doses lest I blow my blood pressure through the roof out of anger. |
Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 3795
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, March 02, 2007 - 01:07 pm: |
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This more properly belongs over on the Thumper's Corner |
Ntfs_encryption
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Username: Ntfs_encryption
Post Number: 1931
Registered: 10-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, March 02, 2007 - 04:20 pm: |
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"This more properly belongs over on the Thumper's Corner."
Uhhhhhh....true....but it is a breath of fresh air to the never ending threads about Beyonce, rappers and entertainers or some celebrities sex/personal life.
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Libralind2
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Username: Libralind2
Post Number: 688
Registered: 09-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, March 02, 2007 - 07:34 pm: |
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I read 15 books in Feb..when I type for my groups..I'll post them up. Im not sure what Im going to read next..unless my copy of "Wicked"LA Banks arrives in the mail tomorrow
LiLi |
Dahomeyahosi
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Username: Dahomeyahosi
Post Number: 209
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, March 02, 2007 - 07:37 pm: |
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Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali....great so far. |
Robynmarie
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Username: Robynmarie
Post Number: 339
Registered: 04-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, March 02, 2007 - 08:57 pm: |
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15 books in one month??? WoW. How do you do it?
Is "Wicked" a Vampire Story? LA Banks is my kind of writer-she uses several different names.
I am very impressed with Ayaan. Isn't there a contract out on her by some radical Islamists? Infidel sounds intriguing. These days I only want to read books set OUTSIDE of the U.S. |
Libralind2
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Username: Libralind2
Post Number: 690
Registered: 09-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, March 02, 2007 - 10:36 pm: |
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Welllllll when your not working..its actually easy..whew. Yes I have read the entire vamp series and look forward to this one as it has HOT sex in it they tell me....since I aint getting none..I have to live through..well you know..GRIN
LiLi |
Dahomeyahosi
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Username: Dahomeyahosi
Post Number: 211
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, March 03, 2007 - 10:31 pm: |
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Robynmarie,
Pick it up. It's on the New York Times bestsellers list which I was surprised by given that she was a relatively minor player in a European country that is rarely on American radar. However I think she is read and admired by both the right and the left. I have learned a lot and have a hard time putting it down. |
Libralind2
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Username: Libralind2
Post Number: 694
Registered: 09-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, March 04, 2007 - 01:11 pm: |
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The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
Elbow Room James Alan McPherson
Fatal Justice Faye Snowden
Too Close For Comfort LaJill Hunt
The Honeymoon Is Over Keith Lee Johnson
Someone To Love Karen White-Owens
Easier Said Than Done Nikki Woods
The Forsaken LA Banks
The Coldest Winter Ever Sister Souljah
Night Work Nelson George
Flying Home and Other Stories Ralph Ellison
Spunk Zora Neale Hurston
Silent Wager Anita Bunkley
Graceland Chris Abani
Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe |
Robynmarie
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Username: Robynmarie
Post Number: 340
Registered: 04-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, March 04, 2007 - 05:38 pm: |
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Yes, I will read Ayaan. I saw her on CNN. She is quite beautiful and quite brave.
Quite a list Lili. The Coldest Winter Ever is one of my faves. |
Steve_s
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Username: Steve_s
Post Number: 229
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, March 04, 2007 - 06:15 pm: |
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You might also be interested in "Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance" by Ian Buruma, which is largely about Ayaan Hirsi Ali. The last sentence reads: "My country seems smaller without her." A great read and not too long.
I noticed in Dreams from My Father that Barack Obama played the same kite-fighting sport growing up in Indonesia that Khaled played in Afghanistan.
Just finished "Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete" by William C. Rhoden, sportswriter for the NY Times.
Currently reading:
"The Inheritance of Loss" by Kiran Desai, which won the Booker Prize for fiction.
"Consider the Lobster (and Other Essays)" by David Foster Wallace.
Hi LiLi
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Robynmarie
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Username: Robynmarie
Post Number: 344
Registered: 04-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, March 04, 2007 - 07:02 pm: |
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How did you enjoy "Dreams of My Father"? I want to like Barak Obama, but something about him rubs me the wrong way...can't put my finger on it, something about him I don't trust. |
Libralind2
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Username: Libralind2
Post Number: 702
Registered: 09-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, March 04, 2007 - 09:25 pm: |
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Steve I was thinking about you..where da hail you been...??
LiLi |
Steve_s
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Username: Steve_s
Post Number: 230
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, March 09, 2007 - 06:32 pm: |
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Hi Robynmarie,
I was impressed with the writing and I was surprised at how honest he is about how he views his own identity and his parents' relationship. I don't know how anyone else here feels about it, but I liked it and I think the Color of Water might not be a bad comparison. I liked the parts about his childhood and his activist work in Chicago, but the final third of the book, about Kenya, contains so many relatives from his extended family (and relatives from his father's two other marriages) that it was a slower read.
William Rhoden's book contains an interesting chapter about Michael Jordan, an analysis of how he achieved such immense popularity because of what Rhoden describes as his 'neutrality' on political and racial issues, and I couldn't help seeing a possible parallel in Obama's popularity. I don't know how it will play out during the campaign, but no, I don't distrust him. Oh, in the interest of full disclosure I should point that I'm not black (not that it matters).
A site called metacritic.com posted multiple reviews of Infidel, and Ian Buruma's review is interesting because he's so sympathetic to Hiris Ali in his book (he's a Dutch expatriate who teaches in the NY):
http://www.metacritic.com/books/authors/hirsialiayaan/infidel
Hi LiLi,
I stopped posting on book boards altogether except for the Guardian UK book blogs ocassionally.
It's funny but Kiran Desai, author of the book I'm reading won the National Book Critics Circle Award last night. It's not that cheery a book, but I'm interested in where she's taking it.
A James Alan McPherson book that I've read and reread is his essay collection, "A Region Not Home." It's really good, although I also liked Hue & Cry, Elbow Room, and Crabcakes.
Something different is "War by Candlelight," a short story collection by Daniel Alarcon, a young Peruvian writer who grew up in Birmingham, Alabama but writes about South America and NYC. I noticed it because of the Edward P. Jones and ZZ Packer blurbs on the cover.
Thanks for thinking about me LiLi.
Love, steve |
Libralind2
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Username: Libralind2
Post Number: 737
Registered: 09-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, March 09, 2007 - 06:53 pm: |
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Well..I hope you wont stay away..too long..
LiLi |
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