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Nom_de_plume
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Username: Nom_de_plume
Post Number: 157
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - 01:50 am: | 
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Das riiiiite...read about it in the NYT today. Ol' girl gets $100K a year for five years to do with as she pleases just because she is so SICKWIDIT. LOL
Because of that, I picked up Half of a Yellow Sun...I was more than happy to pay almost full price for this one!
Has anyone else read this? It won the Orange Prize last year. I remember when an elderly black man came up to me in the bookstore and TOLD me that I should read Purple Hibiscus, her first book, almost two years ago. He clearly knew what he was talkin bout. |
Yvettep
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Username: Yvettep
Post Number: 3205
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - 07:23 am: |
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Nom, see my other post--there are a few other folks of color doing interesting work that will also be recipients of this fellowship grant.
I look forward to reading her work! |
Yvettep
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Post Number: 3206
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - 07:24 am: |
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As a side note--You know all these people are receiving calls from all sorts of folks they haven't spoken to in years--not to mention cousins coming out of the woodwork! LOL |
Nom_de_plume
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Username: Nom_de_plume
Post Number: 159
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - 09:18 pm: |
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Which post is this, Yvette?
I started the book this morning and absolutely love it. LOL I bet she already had to change her number! |
Yvettep
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Post Number: 3210
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, September 25, 2008 - 11:09 am: |
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Here, Nom: http://www.thumperscorner.com/discus/messages/179/40373.html?1222179038 |
Troy
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Username: Troy
Post Number: 1570
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, October 21, 2008 - 10:46 am: |
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Nice article from the Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/sep/24/fiction.awardsandprizes
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has already won an Orange prize and a considerable readership, but now she has been endorsed - very lucratively - as a genius. The Nigerian-born novelist has been awarded one of this year's MacArthur Foundation fellowships, popularly known as "genius grants", which come with an obligation-free annual grant of $100,000 for a five-year period. |
Crystal
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Username: Crystal
Post Number: 461
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, October 22, 2008 - 12:06 pm: |
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I almost missed my bus stop this morning reading Half of a Yellow Sun. |
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