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  1. #401
    The Elephant Vanishes - Haruki Murakami



    A collection of stories about parallel realities from one of the greatest living writers. Give this man a Nobel already!

  2. #402
    Hunger: A Memoir of [My] Body - Roxane Gay



    A chronicle of the author's struggle to accept and understand her relationship with and emotional uses for food. Gut-wrenching.
    Last edited by sansradio; 04-18-2024 at 09:18 AM.

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  4. #404
    Quote Originally Posted by lakeside View Post

    A big fan of architecture. Alden Dow studied with Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin.
    Is this where some guy went nuts and killed a woman and children? Or am I mixing up my architects?

  5. #405
    Sans I think I read this, but can't remember. Saw the movie.

  6. #406
    Quote Originally Posted by sansradio View Post
    The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks - Jeanne Theoharis

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    She was not some hapless, unwitting seamstress who one day got tired on a Jim Crow bus but a fierce, tireless civil rights tactician and organizer many years before her storied arrest and for decades afterward. This biography explodes the myths and illuminates her life and work.
    I thought I read this too, but it's also a documentary, so maybe I only saw the doc. Sans you're killing the reading game. I used to read a ton of books. The internet has zapped a lot of my attention span. You've inspired me to get back into reading an actual book. Give my eyes a rest from the laptop screen.

  7. #407
    Picked this one up the other day.

    The Hardest Deal of All: the Battle Over School Integration In Mississippi, 1870-1980 by Charles C. Bolton.

    I'm on the second page of the Introduction and already I'm engrossed.

  8. #408
    Quote Originally Posted by RanRan79 View Post
    I thought I read this too, but it's also a documentary, so maybe I only saw the doc. Sans you're killing the reading game. I used to read a ton of books. The internet has zapped a lot of my attention span. You've inspired me to get back into reading an actual book. Give my eyes a rest from the laptop screen.
    RanRan! Thrilled that you're over here and happy to hear it! I've got to investigate your current read--sounds like a personal must.

  9. #409
    Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America - Keisha N. Blain



    Part biography, part manifesto, this book frames the legendary civil rights strategist's life, words and vision as a blueprint for the struggles of today.

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  11. #411
    Quote Originally Posted by RanRan79 View Post
    Is this where some guy went nuts and killed a woman and children? Or am I mixing up my architects?
    You must be thinking of Frank Lloyd Wright's groundskeeper. Alden Dow studied under Frank Lloyd Wright. Different architects.

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  13. #413
    Girl, Woman, Other - Bernardine Evaristo



    A symphony of twelve Black British women's stories intertwined into one magnificent, smart, rambunctious novel.
    Last edited by sansradio; 05-29-2024 at 12:13 PM.

  14. #414
    Invisible Things- Mat Johnson



    A dystopian novel about a NASA team which, on the first expedition to Jupiter, discovers a parallel society plagued with rank inequality, xenophobia and dissension.
    Last edited by sansradio; 06-10-2024 at 06:57 AM.

  15. #415
    Love Brought Me Back: A Journey of Loss and Gain - Natalie Cole with David Ritz



    Five years before her death, the singer released this memoir chronicling her kidney transplant journey, which happened simultaneously as her own sister Cooke was dying. Super-poignant to read now.

  16. #416
    Monster in the Middle - Tiphanie Yanique



    A love affair between an African-American musician and a Caribbean-born science teacher turns out to be kismet, revealing deep-seated connections between their family histories.

  17. #417
    Book review of Familiaris by David Wroblewski [[bookpage.com)

    Was a huge fan of 'The Story of Edgar Sawtelle'. This is his second book
    15 years later. If you're a dog lover...Edgar Sawtelle brings out the crate of
    Kleenex! The Edgar Sawtelle story runs parallel to Hamlet.

  18. #418
    Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People's Business - Roxane Gay



    The esteemed writer tackles everything from the state of American politics to pop culture in this volume.

  19. #419
    Agent Josephine: American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy - Damien Lewis



    Uncovers heretofore unknown details about La Baker's military work for La Résistance and the Allied forces during WWII.
    Last edited by sansradio; 07-15-2024 at 08:59 AM.

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  21. #421
    I am listening to this book.




    I absolutely guarantee that you will never, ever read another book with so much profanity in it. She profanes so much that I feel like I need to go to Profanity Training Boot Camp. Ms. Jones is a comic and I really knew nothing about her until I listened to a podcast in which she was a guest. She intrigued me and I put her book on hold on my library audio book app and it's like listening to a 13 hour performance by the woman. My Lord, but she has worked her ass off to get where she is today. She is bigger than life, six feet tall, and she laughs and she cries and she probably says, "Motherfucker" in at LEAST every other sentence. It's completely different than most of the books I read either with eyes or ears but it is a rich story of one Black woman's journey to succeed in a career which has historically been made up mostly of men, and those mostly white. There have been many famous and successful Black male comics but Leslie was one of the first Black women to break through all the different sorts of prejudice.

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    Daddy Was a Number Runner - Louise Meriwether


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    The classic novel about growing up Black, female and poor in 1930s Harlem.
    Last edited by sansradio; 08-02-2024 at 05:10 PM.

  23. #423
    Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras: A History of Blaxploitation Cinema - Odie
    Henderson




    One of my favorite film critics tackles a sweeping -and hilarious--reappraisal of the era.

  24. #424
    New England White - Stephen L. Carter



    The Jamaican-American president of America's most exclusive university and his wife stumble upon the dead body of a colleague on the side of a wintry road in their sleepy, snooty college town, arousing suspicions, palace intrigue and deep-seated prejudices.
    Last edited by sansradio; 08-25-2024 at 04:47 PM.

  25. #425
    The Ordeal of Mansart - W.E.B. DuBois



    The first installment in the esteemed sociologist's Black Flame fiction trilogy, in which the chronicles of African-American history from Reconstruction through the mid-20th century are distilled through the life of one man.
    Last edited by sansradio; 09-21-2024 at 01:58 PM.

  26. #426
    Rattlebone - Maxine Clair





    A collection of stories about a Black girl coming of age in mid-20th century Kansas City.

  27. #427
    Ruby - Cynthia Bond



    A once-haughty "fallen woman" returns to her rural Texas hometown after seeking her fortune in New York, descends into madness, and is eventually redeemed by love.
    Last edited by sansradio; 10-18-2024 at 12:26 PM.

  28. #428
    Second Skin: Josephine Baker and the Modern Surface - Anne Anlin Cheng



    An interdisciplinary exploration of the ways in which Baker's body--particularly her skin -- indelibly influenced Euro-American modernism. Highly readable and ingenious.

  29. #429
    Telephone - Percival Everett



    A bored geologist/paleontologist, after his 12-year-old daughter experiences vision loss and seizures, discovers a mysterious note for help in a newly-bought used jacket and follows its trail on an improbable quest.

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  31. #431
    What Moves at the Margin: Selected Nonfiction - Toni Morrison



    A collection of thirty years' worth of essays from the greatest novelist the U.S. has ever produced.

  32. #432

    Wow....what a read.

  33. #433
    Black Boy Smile: A Memoir in Moments - D. Watkins



    Chronicles the author's rise from the crack-riddled streets of Baltimore to manhood as a college lecturer and respected journalist.

  34. #434
    Alec - William di Canzio



    A skillful reimagining/extension of E.M. Forster's Maurice which colors in the future life together of the lovers Maurice and Alec. Fun fact: The author was my freshman-year writing professor way back when.

  35. #435
    American Eve: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, the Birth of the "It" Girl and the Crime of the Century - Paula Uruburu



    I've been fascinated with this case since I saw the film Ragtime as a kid and later read the novel as an adult. This is proving to be a rather breathless read full of purple prose, but a load of decadent fun.

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  37. #437
    The Nickel Boys - Colson Whitehead



    Two young Black men unfairly remanded to a horrific reform school in 1960s Florida create their own rules of morality to survive. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and now adapted into a Golden Globe-nominated film.
    Last edited by sansradio; 01-14-2025 at 10:59 PM.

  38. #438

  39. #439
    Palace Council - Stephen L. Carter



    A rising star of 1950s Harlem's literati stumbles upon a dead body and is swept into a whirlwind of political intrigue that extends all the way to Nixon's Watergate-era Oval Office.
    Last edited by sansradio; 01-26-2025 at 06:05 PM.

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