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Emanuel
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Username: Emanuel
Post Number: 426
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, November 27, 2007 - 03:24 pm: | 
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With December just around the corner, it's that time of year where everyone and his mother has a "best of" list to share. Why should we be any different? Can you name the best three fiction and the best three non-fiction books you've read this year that were also published this year? I'll have to think about it because I read a lot of older titles. |
Steve_s
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Username: Steve_s
Post Number: 307
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, November 27, 2007 - 08:53 pm: |
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FICTION
1) Dominion by Calvin Baker (2006)
David Anthony Durham's review:
http://www.davidanthonydurham.com/blog/2006/11/review-of-calvin-bakers-dominion. html
Maud Newton on "The Silence that Greeted Dominion":
http://maudnewton.com/blog/?p=7086
"Hatchet Jobs" critic Dale Peck weighs in:
http://nymag.com/arts/books/features/2007/32390/
Two "9/11" novels:
2) Falling Man by Don DeLillo (2007)
3) The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid (2007)
NONFICTION
1) The Last "Darky": Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora (A John Hope Franklin Center Book) by Louis Chude-Sokei (2006) -- Deep book about minstrelsy and masking.
2) Brother, I'm Dying by Edwidge Danticat (2007) True story, beautifully told.
Two books about New Orleans:
3) Louis Armstrong's New Orleans by Thomas Brothers (2006)
3 One Drop: My Father's Hidden Life -- A Story of Race and Family Secrets by Bliss Broyard (2007)
MOST OVERHYPED
1) The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
2) Them by Nathan McCall
3) Ralph Ellison: A Biography by Arnold Rampersad
4) New England White by Stephen L. Carter |
Afrika
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Username: Afrika
Post Number: 97
Registered: 06-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, November 28, 2007 - 12:19 am: |
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Greetings,
Sure.
The three best fiction that I read are
Is No Not Good Enough for You by Angelia Menchan
What If It Feels Good by D.J.McLaurin
Do Me Twice: My Life After Islam by Sonsyrea Tate
Three best non-fiction books I have read are
Ethnic Scrapbooking by Lisa Sanford
The Write House by Edwin Hurdle
LOVE’S REPARATIONS by Jackie Young
Thanks for asking. |
Emanuel
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Username: Emanuel
Post Number: 427
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, November 28, 2007 - 10:26 am: |
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Wow! My reading really fell off this year due to other obligations. I used to read 5 to 6 books a month. Now it's more like 10 per year. There are only two books (both fiction) that were published this year I can recommend:
"Into Each Each Life" by Shelia Lipsey
"Jump at the Sun" by Kim Mclarin (paperback published this year).
However, I did enjoy "Nowhere is a Place" by Bernice McFadden and "The Game" by Neil Strauss. The latter is non-fiction.
I'm stepping it up in 2008 by doing more reviews. |
Afrika
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Username: Afrika
Post Number: 98
Registered: 06-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, November 28, 2007 - 11:02 am: |
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Greetings,
Also for those that read Children's books. Below are the best Children's books in my point of view. Among them include:
Grandma's Purple Flowers by Adjoa J.Burrowes
My Steps by Adjoa J.Burrowes
Everybody Wears Braids by Adjoa J.Burrowes
Can I Have Some Money Please? by Twyla Prindle
Where Is My Money? by Twyla Prindle
Stay blessed and I will in touch with more for you before the year is out! |
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