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57694, Summer Reading Posted by Naanaa, Sun Jun-04-06 10:29 PM
Just wanted to know what everyone is reading.
I'm reading One Hundred Years of Solitude because I never did, next up is a collection of Wole Soyinka's plays.
Add on.
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57729, The Collected Poems of James Merrill... Posted by Morehouse, Tue Jun-06-06 01:06 PM
serious lyric poet
umm, also MUSIC GENRES and CORPORATE CULTURES by Keith Negus
so far this year i've read:
Lullaby by Chuck Palahnuik Strong Motion by Jonathan Franzen The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks The Diaries of Adam and Eve by Mark Twain
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myself is sculptor of your body’s idiom: the musician of your wrists; the poet who is afraid only to mistranslate a rhythm in your hair... -E.E. Cummings
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58395, I just finished The Changing Light at Sandover by him... Posted by Amira Muse, Wed Jul-12-06 03:26 PM
I think it's going to take me a minute to really appreciate it though.
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57745, so far Posted by rgv, Tue Jun-06-06 05:33 PM
jonah's gourd vine by zora neale hurston the things they carried by tim obrien
currently toni morrison's tar baby cuz i cld never git thru it
and then a whole buncha sht ill post em as i git to em
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57749, RE: Summer Reading Posted by Naanaa, Tue Jun-06-06 09:30 PM
james merrill, i was supposed to read him for class, but i don't think i went to school on the day dude presented on him. do you like his work so far?
and kima, i'm already picking at your summer reading list from your blog. i've never been able to get through "tar baby" either. maybe one day.
my neighbor just gave a copy of the short fiction norton anthology she stole from somewhere. so, i'm making my way through that too. weeeeeeee.
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58356, RE: Summer Reading Posted by invisible ink, Mon Jul-10-06 11:22 AM
u sure you mean me? or rgv ? (lol)
i'm kima (smiles)...that's cool...tar baby is a good one either way...miss k (kimabe aka kima)
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57750, RE: Summer Reading Posted by paperdollpoet, Wed Jun-07-06 12:58 AM
nowhere is a place by bernice mcfadden the glass castle by jeannette walls the color of water by james mcbride
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57809, I'm reading, Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler Posted by mindful, Thu Jun-08-06 06:35 PM
after that, I'll read the Da Vinci Code by Ron Brown, and after that, I'll begin my aunt's new book, Foolish Pleasures by Margurite Birt
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http://msmind.blogspot.com
no shit in 06.
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58027, Dan Brown, I meant nm Posted by mindful, Mon Jun-19-06 10:00 AM
----------------------- Pinwheels and Hula Hoops: my book http://www.lulu.com/content/132318
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no shit in 06.
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58012, RE: Summer Reading Posted by Untouchable05, Sun Jun-18-06 09:30 PM
Michael Datcher - Rasing fences; a black mans love story
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58052, the wall street journal Posted by blaksilence, Tue Jun-20-06 09:45 AM
and usa today are pretty much all i have time for
but i just put six books from this post on my list...
so i 'preciate that
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58065, the adventures of huckleberry finn Posted by rgv, Wed Jun-21-06 10:03 AM
currently
throwbacknsht
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58075, Re-reading "A Raisin in the Sun" right now Posted by Aries, Thu Jun-22-06 01:02 AM
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58087, RE: Summer Reading Posted by newolf, Fri Jun-23-06 10:58 AM
Thus far...
Beasts of No Nation -- Uzodinma Iweala White Teeth -- Zadie Smith On the Road -- Kerouac Sould on Ice -- Eldridge Cleaver Currently: Eight Men -- Richard Wright
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58119, I Just Got... Posted by jmichaelj, Mon Jun-26-06 01:49 AM
Hill Harper's Letters to a Young Brother as a gift so I guess I'll be digging into that. I tackle books one at a time and very slowly because I tend to read parts over and over and might even venture off into my own writing process, so this should last until the leaves turn. Hell, I'm still re-reading all my old Calvin & Hobbes collections..lol
~1~ Luv Alwayz ~J-Mic~
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58333, up Posted by rgv, Sat Jul-08-06 06:52 PM
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58682, . Posted by blaksilence, Sun Jul-23-06 11:17 AM
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58341, currently reading... Dan Brown's Angels and Demons Posted by mindful, Sun Jul-09-06 12:34 PM
after this, I'll be diving into bell hooks' bone black...
----------------------- Pinwheels and Hula Hoops: my book http://www.lulu.com/content/132318
http://msmind.blogspot.com
no shit in 06.
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58350, RE: Summer Reading Posted by grape, Mon Jul-10-06 12:33 AM
(Since late May...)
Snow- Orhan Pamuk
Time of the Doves- Merce Rodoreda
On the Edge of Reason- Miroslav Krleza
The Thief and the Dogs- Naguib Mahfouz
Essays
James Baldwin: "Dark Days" "Freaks and American Ideal of Manhood" "The Price of the Ticket" "Every Good-bye Ain't Gone"
Joseph Brodsky: "Less Than One" "In a Room and a Half"
Currently: The Insulted and the Injured- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Expecting but nowhere to be found: The House at Sugar Beach- Helene Cooper
Next: Jane Austen
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58351, RE: Summer Reading Posted by freedomfighter, Mon Jul-10-06 08:10 AM
paralegal books torts legal writing legal research
"be fore me dam you must be a nerd"
martial arts"the way of a warrior"
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58355, oooo... Posted by invisible ink, Mon Jul-10-06 11:20 AM
u're gonna make me search out my Baldwin!(smiling)
maybe i should dig into Giovanni's Room ...mmmm..miss k
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58354, RE: Summer Reading Posted by invisible ink, Mon Jul-10-06 11:16 AM
Just finished reading Walter Mosley's Fortunate Son...i recommend it BIG time.
about to read: J. California Cooper's : Wild Stars Seeking Midnight Suns
rereading:
ManChild in the Promiseland by Claude Browne
and diggin into
Angry Black White Boy by Mansbach
happy reading all...miss k
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58396, Sleeping with the Dictionary by Harryette Mullen Posted by Amira Muse, Wed Jul-12-06 03:27 PM
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58400, RE: Sleeping with the Dictionary by Harryette Mullen Posted by Naanaa, Wed Jul-12-06 11:04 PM
i love her :)
just finished 'purple hibiscus' by chimamanda ngozi adichie
next is 'fragments' by ayi kwei armah
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58401, color purple... Posted by clarion, Thu Jul-13-06 03:30 AM
& i have several mysteries to help the sun brown me...
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58693, currently re-reading The Bluest Eye nm Posted by mindful, Sun Jul-23-06 01:26 PM
----------------------- Pinwheels and Hula Hoops: my book http://www.lulu.com/content/132318
http://msmind.blogspot.com
no shit in 06.
you should know that when you smile sincerely it has a beautiful effect ©sunshine
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59008, in the middle of Marita Golden's : After Posted by invisible ink, Mon Jul-31-06 07:01 PM
go cop it...miss k
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59070, marita golden Posted by rgv, Wed Aug-02-06 11:10 AM
is that boss lady
so slept on
will do
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59083, RE: marita golden Posted by invisible ink, Wed Aug-02-06 04:08 PM
exactly...people need to stop playin and get into her vibe...k boogie
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