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Robynmarie
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Username: Robynmarie
Post Number: 745
Registered: 04-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, March 11, 2008 - 08:51 pm: | 
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Who are your favorite non African American authors? I really like Edwidge Danticott and Amy Tan. Of course the classic writers, John Steinbeck and F Scott. |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 11872
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, March 12, 2008 - 01:37 am: |
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I actually don't have any. I guess I like Stephen King and James Patterson books. |
Crystal
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Username: Crystal
Post Number: 396
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, March 12, 2008 - 12:14 pm: |
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Jane Austen |
Ferociouskitty
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Username: Ferociouskitty
Post Number: 141
Registered: 02-2008
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, March 12, 2008 - 12:21 pm: |
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Crystal, other than being required to read JA in jr. high, she hasn't been on my must-read list. Yet I hear a lot of female writers singing her praises. What, in your opinion, is the appeal of her books/style? |
Crystal
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Username: Crystal
Post Number: 397
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, March 12, 2008 - 12:48 pm: |
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F-kitty - her books have smart and strong female characters that get the job done but she also shows their softness. Even the silly women and stupid men in the stories are somewhat sympathetic – maybe because we all know someone like them. The relationships and interaction of the characters are timeless and recognizable and her prose is sharp but softened in just the right places. I think Persuasion is my favorite.
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Ferociouskitty
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Username: Ferociouskitty
Post Number: 142
Registered: 02-2008
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, March 12, 2008 - 12:50 pm: |
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Ok, thanks, Crystal! Sounds like good stuff. |
Soul_sister
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Username: Soul_sister
Post Number: 69
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 13, 2008 - 09:09 am: |
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My favorite - Laura Rowland of the Sano Ichiro series |
Ferociouskitty
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Username: Ferociouskitty
Post Number: 144
Registered: 02-2008
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 13, 2008 - 09:20 am: |
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I like Anne Lamott's nonfiction, Stephen King, Lee Smith, and Alice Munro. |
Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 6438
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 13, 2008 - 11:41 am: |
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I got bunches of them
James Joyce, Stan Lee, Walt Whitman, Mario Puzo, Charles Dickens, Fredrich Nietzche, Mike Royko, Guy De Maupassant, Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Lord Byron, Allan Moore, Charles Stross, China Mieville, Harlan Ellison, Alfred Bester, Neil Simon--that's all I can think of for now,but there are probably many others. |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 11879
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 13, 2008 - 03:05 pm: |
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How can you have a bunch of favorite authors? I have read lots of books by white authors which I liked, but that didn't necessarily make them "favorites" of mine.  |
Mochascafe
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Username: Mochascafe
Post Number: 37
Registered: 08-2007
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, March 14, 2008 - 08:08 am: |
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I guess I will always feel somewhat nostalgic towards Judy Blume and Beverly Cleary. As a child they cultivated my obsession with books. As a matter of fact I am in the process of introducing my 7 year old to the books now. I think she's had enough Junie B. Jones to last a lifetime. |
Mochascafe
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Username: Mochascafe
Post Number: 38
Registered: 08-2007
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, March 14, 2008 - 08:26 am: |
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Oh, I just noticed you said non "African American", Ok, the last couple of books that I have read have been REALLY good and all by authors from across the Diaspora:
Lorna Goodison (Jamaican)
Marie Elena John (Antiguan)
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigerian)
Dinaw Mengestu (Ethiopian)
Aminatta Forna (Sierra Leonian)
All wonderful reads,it would be difficult to pick a favorite |
Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 6439
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, March 15, 2008 - 10:25 am: |
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How can you have a bunch of favorite authors? I have read lots of books by white authors which I liked, but that didn't necessarily make them "favorites" of mine.
(The same way a man can be in love with more than one woman.
The same way a parent can love all his or her kids.
The same way you can have bunches of favorite foods.
I tell you again--
Am I inconsistent? Very well. I contain MULTITUDES) |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 11900
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, March 15, 2008 - 01:40 pm: |
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In other words, chrishayden, you are an indiscriminate blob. But then I knew that. |
Emanuel
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Username: Emanuel
Post Number: 534
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, March 15, 2008 - 02:17 pm: |
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It's tough to list favs because I've probably only read one of each of their books but the ones that come to mind are:
1. Ernest Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises
2. Dave Eggers: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
3. Grant Bailee: Cloud 8
4. Junot Diaz: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
5. Richard Madelin: Careful!
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Robynmarie
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Username: Robynmarie
Post Number: 753
Registered: 04-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, March 15, 2008 - 06:02 pm: |
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Soul_sister, Please tell me more about Sano Ichiro...
CH-I love Dickens too, but I read "A Tale of Two Cities" recently and wanted to jump off of a bridge. The descriptions/operations of the guiotine were too much. "A Christmas Carol" is more my speed. LOL
Emanuel-I have heard of Junot Diaz, but am not familar with his/her work. Do tell.
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Ferociouskitty
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Username: Ferociouskitty
Post Number: 152
Registered: 02-2008
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, March 15, 2008 - 10:25 pm: |
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Emanuel, what do you think of Junot Diaz's latest. I liked "Drown."
I would add Zadie Smith, since we are specifying "Non-Americans" and not "non-blacks." |
Emanuel
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Username: Emanuel
Post Number: 535
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, March 16, 2008 - 01:46 am: |
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I haven't read "Drown," and I'm still reading "The Brief Wondrous Life..." but what I've read so far has been genius. I like writers who throw caution to the wind and just put it down. Diaz's book (so far) has been a fearless and well-written one that sheds light on a part of the Dominican-American lifestyle, how one becomes a geek, and how a person's heritage affects her present life. That fearlessness is also in Phillip Roth's "Portnoy's Complaint" (which I forgot to mention before) and the Eggers book I mentioned. They write well and write like they don't give a f@#$ who they offend.
Grant Bailee's book gets points for originality and thought-provoking ideas regarding the afterlife.
Hemingway's book simply transported me. His detailed descriptions make you feel like you're there in the story.
Careful! was another original one that was written almost entirely with inner monologue. The plot was interesting too.
I tried "On Beauty" by Zadie Smith but the first few chapters didn't draw me in so I put it down and started reading something more my taste. |
Ferociouskitty
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Username: Ferociouskitty
Post Number: 153
Registered: 02-2008
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, March 16, 2008 - 11:11 pm: |
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Emanuel:
I didn't enjoy "On Beauty" as much as I enjoyed Smith's "White Teeth." "OB" read like "WT", just Stateside. The premise of her third book didn't grab me.
But your comment gave me another thread idea. Off to start it! |
Afrika
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Username: Afrika
Post Number: 109
Registered: 06-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, June 05, 2008 - 09:41 am: |
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Greetings,
Hmmm, this took me some time to respond too. So, I will have to say, Eric A.Kimmell and Robert Kraus.
Thanks for asking.
Peace
Afrika Midnight Asha Abney |
Vanders
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Username: Vanders
Post Number: 2
Registered: 06-2008
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, June 27, 2008 - 05:27 pm: |
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Hello; I'm a new club member and this is my second posting. I like Anita Diamant who wrote "The Red Tent", also Elizabeth Gilbert who wrote "Eat, Pray, Love and finally Sue Monk Kidd who wrote "The secret life of bees". As far as a white male writers I would have to go with Wally Lamb who wrote "She's Come Undone" and Arthur Golden who wrote "Memoirs of a Geisha". I'm starting to read alot but I mostly prefer African American authors and poets. Vanders |
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