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Thumper
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Username: Thumper
Post Number: 595
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, August 11, 2008 - 07:20 pm: | 
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Hello All,
I was looking through my mess of a library the other day. It's a diaster. I need to weed through them but I really don't have the heart to get rid of my books. I'm going to have to do something because I can not go on like this much longer. Anyway, as I was glancing over the piles of books, I noticed my books by Toni Cade Bambara and Paule Marshall that I haven't read yet. I've read and loved Bambara's last book, Those Bones Are Not My Child. I have started The Salt Eaters and put it down. I'm going to have to pick that one up again, as well as Gorilla, My Love. I bought Paule Marshall's Daughters years ago and haven't pick it up yet.
I just wanted to throw their names out there, especially with Fall coming on and for me that's the time that I start shopping for books due to the cool weather and winter coming up. |
Nom_de_plume
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Username: Nom_de_plume
Post Number: 117
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, August 12, 2008 - 02:57 am: |
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Wow Thumper, I started to pick up These Bones Are Not My Child last week but put it back cause I have SO many books waiting to be read! I know how you feel about your library - I cannot and WILL not part with any of my books. My library is just that, so why would I get rid of my collection? I'd rather even GIVE a book or promise to buy a copy for someone than lend one out cause you rarely see them again. LOL |
Thumper
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Username: Thumper
Post Number: 598
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, August 12, 2008 - 09:26 am: |
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Hello All,
Nom: I should clarify: when I say that I'm going to be getting rid of my books, I mean I'm going to box them up and move them to my mother's house. I know what you are talking about on the lending your books out tip. There are very few, not that my friend Steve is gone, now two people who I will lend my books to because I get them back.
I highly recommend Those Bones Are Not My Child! It was the last book Bambara was working on when she died and her editor, Toni Morrison, worked with what Bambara had written and made it happen. It was the first book I read by Bambara and it totally got my nose open for her writing. |
Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 7288
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, August 12, 2008 - 11:25 am: |
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How is it you buy books that you do not read? You just compulsively buy books just to buy them?
Why do you buy them if you don't read them? |
Nom_de_plume
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Username: Nom_de_plume
Post Number: 119
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, August 12, 2008 - 02:05 pm: |
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Because I get GREAT deals on them and I'm like a squirrel, storing nuts. I will never NOT have anything to feast on, you see? Especially with the fall/winter season approaching.  |
Nom_de_plume
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Username: Nom_de_plume
Post Number: 120
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, August 12, 2008 - 02:15 pm: |
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And Thumper, if the book is still there, I'll definitely pick it up this afternoon. I didn't know that tidbit, very interesting! I just finished a Paris Review interview with Toni Morrison too (from the published collection, volume two). It was outstanding.
Chris, you can never have too many books, worse things can be bought with money. It is my weakness but I can't say that I'm not better for it. There's a quote by Desiderus Erasmus (sp?) that goes, "When I have a little money I buy books, and if there's any left over I buy clothes and food." That is me. LOL |
Mike_e
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Username: Mike_e
Post Number: 32
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, August 13, 2008 - 01:24 am: |
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Gorilla My Love was the first book of Toni Cade Bambara's that I read. I enjoyed the humor & insight she brought to her short stories & essays. Back in the mid 70's Chicago Lit Theater did a production featuring her short stories. I read The Salt Eaters when it first came out & felt that it did not succeed as well as her stories,but These Bones .... is a vast improvement on her first novel. It should be a classic.
I have read Praisesong for the Widow and The Fisher King by Marshall & some of her short stories. I've got her novels Browngirl, Brownstones and A Chosen Place, A Timeless People on my bookshelves. |
Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 7292
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, August 13, 2008 - 10:34 am: |
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Deep Sightings and Rescue Missions is my favorite Tony Cade book.
I ain't into Paule Marshall. |
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