>& i'm actually thinking of getting a part time gig @ a
>bookstore...
>
>god help me *grin*

back before my career took off, i had a part time gig at Barnes & Noble (now why he go and do that?). my wife was like, do they even *give* your ass a paycheck or does it all go into lattes and obscure books? *i stand convicted*. it was fun though. should have copped anarch* cookbook when i had the chance. if i bought that ish now, i'd be on all kindsa lists (in addition to the ones i'm already on, no doubt).

>
>>>we'll have to list them separately -- i'm reading two by
>>Amos Wilson (on psychological dev't of the black child,
>>etc),
>
>that's EXACTLY the kind of stuff i need to get back into.
>since i left school, i've let myself get out of touch. my
>mom is cleaning out my old room & i found some old research
>papers. i kept a few & i'm going to go thru my
>bibliographies & look up some of that stuff...see what the
>updates are.

f'real, f'real. i got kids (but i copped the book late, my youngest is going to 1st grade and he really speaks on stuff you said on an earlier thread about the home environment, particularly from birth to pre-k -- but i read it as affirmation based on stuff we've already consciously/unconsciously done).


>
>>occasionally i have bursts of
>>reading and finish a couple and replace them on the list
>>with others.
>
>tell me about it...along w/ all the historical stuff i'm
>into (why didn't i know about howard zinn YEARS ago????
>lol), i'm reading the bible & koran, some buddhist texts
>(that's been since college lol), & dabbling w/ a translation
>of the book of the dead. and then there's the huey newton
>reader in my bag...

forgot, i've been reading the bible, too, starting w/ the NT. also, i have a link to an online version of the book of coming forth by day and by night (Book Of The Dead), that i haven't gotten past a couple of pages on. add to that, Anacalypsis, by Godfrey Higgins, for which i also have a link. that joint is like $75 in bookstores, but its available all online, so i would want to go back and find that and dl it, even if i can't read it any time soon, just in case whoever put it up goes away, yunno?


>that makes me tired just thinking about it lol.

co-*sigh*

>>which Diop are you reading? first chapter or two (civ. or
>>barb, af origins...)
>
>"precolonial black africa"...but i'll probably have to
>reread. i lost focus, & when i read his books i can't retain
>much if i have a lot on my plate. i finished "The Cultural
>Unity of Black Africa" some time ago, but i want to reread
>that as well.

i think 'african origins: myth or reality' includes l'unite d' (whatever the frence name for cultural unity of black africa), and includes updates and *gasp* more footnotes.

>>
>>*not that its a bad thing, but we have to expend so much
>>effort in making the works bulletproof, that it can detract
>>from the readability.
>
>yeah diop is definitely an academic writer. & i never read
>him w/out a dictionary close by (lol). dr. ben seems to be
>more readable as well. i'm trying *not* to look up more
>authors right now 'cause i know i'll go on a spending
>spree...but i'll definitely hit u up when i finish what i've
>got going.

doc ben is my boy, and i concur. however, you gotta get past that horrible typography. i got a big, green copy of Abu-Simbel to Giza, and shit looks like it was typed on a selectric with a bad ribbon, and then photocopied on the first xerox ever made. the info is good, though.

black classic press or somebody need to update it just to improve the quality of the presentation, though.

why is it, that after we ain't in school any more, we still have this mindset like we're gonna get more reading done in the summer? that ain't right/true.

peace & blessings,

x.