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yasmin
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, May 08, 2003 - 05:22 pm: | 
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Okay based upon folks recommendations(from this board and APOOO BookClub), I've moved the following books to my "Short" TRP (yeah I have a short one of 20 books and a long one of around 80 books)...so here's my list:
Harlem Redux by Persia Walker
The Drift and Conversation With the Mann by John Ridley
The Ecstatic by Victor Lavelle
Crawfish Dreams by Nancy Rawles
Magic City and Voodoo Dolls by Jewel Parker Rhodes
Getting Mother's Body by SuZAN-Lori Parks
Fifth Born by Zelda Lockhart
A Prayer for Deliverance by Christopher Chambers
Acting Out by Benilde Little (because I want to see if this book is as boring/bad as folks say it is)
Gonna LayDown My Burdens by Mary Monroe
Firday Nights at Honeybee's by Andrea Smith
Queen of Harlem by Brian Keith Jackson (I will finish this one...which I started last year)
Glenville Lovell's new one (I have a review copy)
And just because these have been on my shelf OR I have to review them:
I Say a Prayer For Me by Stanice Anderson
SilkyDreamGirl by Cris Burks
Breaking Away by Kristen Lattany
Emperor of Ocean Park (BAB of all BABS)BY Stephen Carter
The Other Woman by Eric Jerome Dickey
I think I will be busy for a couple of minds. ;)
Of course, if new books come out that I like better this list will get shuffled around. 
If you've read any of the books on the list and want to send regards about them please do so...currently they're in no order other...they're just books that I want to read SOON rather than later.
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Sandra
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, May 08, 2003 - 09:03 pm: |
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I vote for moving Fifth Born by Zelda Lockhart to the top of your list. This is an incredible book.
It can be very sad and I actually dreaded reading it because it deals with an unhappy and horrible childhood. But I am so glad I read it. Great ending too!
She spoke at my local book club back in Feb. She is a beautiful person.
BTW, looking at your list gave me more stuff to add to my "short" list
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Susan
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, May 08, 2003 - 10:09 pm: |
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Sandra,
Fifth Born sounds a lot like the book The Root Worker. I had a similar reaction.
Susan |
yasmin
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, May 08, 2003 - 10:55 pm: |
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Sandra: Thanks for feedback regarding Fifth Born..see I know its sad and I really have to be in the frame of mind to read it. I met the author last year at the BEA Conference and she was a very warm and personable individual so I do want to read her book (if for that reason alone)but I've just got to be in the right frame of mind. I think I will take it with me and read it on the plane to the BEA Conference in Los Angeles later this month. Its small, compact and doesn't take up too much room and I will probably be able to finish it in one setting.
Susan: I read The Root Worker and I pray that Fifth Born is not as dreary as The Root Worker. |
Bayou Lights
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, May 08, 2003 - 11:18 pm: |
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Hey, All---
My short list includes...
Always Wear Joy - Susan Fales
A.L.T. - Andre Leon Talley
Shutter Island - Dennis Lehane
* New Mat Johnson book
The Devil Wears Prada - Lauren Weisberger
Friday Night at Honeybees
Dirty Girls Social Club - Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez
The Gangster We Are All Looking For - le thi diem thuy
My Invented Country - Isabel Allende
That's just the short list, I keep a separate excel file (I know I'm anal) that has about 220 books on the list.
Bayou |
GG
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, May 09, 2003 - 10:52 pm: |
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My short list consists of:
1. Loving Donovan by Bernice McFadden
2. Leaving Atlanta by Tayari Jones
3. Daddy was a Number Runner (I know it's old, but I have been dying to read it!)
4. Chocolate Sangria by Tracy Price-Thompson
5. And of course, Eric Jerome Dickey's new book (I'll probably read that one first!)
P.S. Bayou Lights: That Excel file sounds like a good idea, I may try it myself..Thanks! |
Sandra
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, May 09, 2003 - 11:12 pm: |
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Ok..here we go..in no particular order
Billy by Albert French
Black No More by George Samuel
Granddaddy's Dirt by Brian Egeston
Thunderland by Brandon Massey
The Sisters of APF by Zane
Chocolate Sangria by Tracy Price-Thompson
The Queen of Harlem by Brian Keith Jackson
More Like Wrestling: A Novel by Danyel Smith
Loving Donovan by Bernice L. McFadden
The List by Patti Flinn
Of course I have 200 more titles in my books database. |
Yvette
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, May 10, 2003 - 03:12 am: |
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I am currently finishing up Grace by Elizabeth Nunez and One True Thing by Anna Quindlen. Some of the books I plan to read over the next couple of months are:
Jonah's Vine Gourd and Mules and Men - Zora Neale Hurston
Something Real - J.J. Murray
24 Hours - Greg Iles
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Harriet Jacobs
The Blacker the Berry - Wallace Thurman
The Centaur - John Updike
A Quiet Storm - Rachel Howzell Hall
I also have a database of books I'd like to read. And I must admit that the number of books on the list is so high that I am actually beginning to wonder if I'll get a chance to read all of them before I die! |
Sis E
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, May 11, 2003 - 07:44 am: |
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Hi All,
Sis E here. I ran out and bought Alice Randall's The Wind Done Gone, and Freeman's Lay This Body Down yesterday to have something to turn to while writing my next children's book. I had wanted to read Randall's book for quite some time but heard that it wasn't that great, so I just waited for the paperback. I want to read Toni Cade Bambara's These Bones Are Not My Child's, and Fifth Born. I want to read something funny, too! I liked Brown's Sittin' in the Front Pew because it was funny in so many spots. Any ideas? |
akaivyleaf
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, May 11, 2003 - 08:50 am: |
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Sis E,
Lets discuss The Wind Done Gone when you get finished with it. I'm anxious to hear someone elses impression of the book besides mine.
I found Lay this Body Down, incensing. To think that I ride through the counties mentioned on at least a weekly basis, does something to me. I enjoyed Fifth Born but as so many people have said, its sad so you do need a little humor after all of the books you mentioned. Have you already read Church Folk, I found it funny because I swear the author was sitting next to me in my church.
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yasmin
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, May 11, 2003 - 12:31 pm: |
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Sis E...something FUNNY...I highly recommend Dancing on the Edge of the Roof by Shelia Williams. I don't think you will be disappointed with this book...its witty, engaging, and just a cute chic lit read. Pick it up and let me know your thoughts.
Thumper...I'm reading The Drift by John Ridley and this book is skraight up whacked! Whew...very engaging read tho...I'm learning a lot but at times its also a very painful read...I still can't imagine being raped with wood or glass...OUCH! |
Sandra
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, May 12, 2003 - 08:23 am: |
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akaivyleaf & yasmin: skeeweee yall!
Thanks for the recs for FUNNY books. I have been looking for a good laugh out loud read. I will try to find these at B&N tonite. |
Tee C. Royal
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, May 12, 2003 - 11:33 am: |
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I don't really maintain a list like this since it changes so much, but I do hope to read the following books soon!
True Lies by Margaret Johnson-Hodge
Married but Still Looking by Travis Hunter
Misdemeanor by Tanya Marie Lewis
Minion by L.A. Banks
The ones I hope to read in the next week or two were posted to a different thread.
Sandra, as far as funny books, have you ever read Marcus Major? He has a lot of funny one-liners in his book. I also thought Married Men by Carl Weber had some funny parts...but it's a bit "drama-city" and you may be overwhelmed with the antics of grown men vs catching those funny parts. LOL. DRAMA with capital letters.
-Tee
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akaivyleaf
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, May 12, 2003 - 11:39 am: |
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I'm finally getting my database up to date and my TBR pile has 173 books on it. That hurt! I have 24 books that I want to get read by the end of the month but that Ain't happening. I can't seem to stay off of here and my many reading lists to get enough reading done. |
Sis E
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, May 12, 2003 - 03:30 pm: |
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Yasmin and akaivyleaf,
I will get to gettin' on these funny books right away! And I hear that the author of Hot Johnny and the Women Who Loved him has a new one out. Anybody read it yet? (I thought I'd sent this post out this morning, but I guess not. Uh oh, Alzheimer's strikes again....)
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