The Elephant Vanishes - Haruki Murakami
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A collection of stories about parallel realities from one of the greatest living writers. Give this man a Nobel already!
The Elephant Vanishes - Haruki Murakami
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A collection of stories about parallel realities from one of the greatest living writers. Give this man a Nobel already!
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.
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.
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.
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.
Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World - Wil Haygood
Books like these are my idea of heaven.
Girl, Woman, Other - Bernardine Evaristo
A symphony of twelve Black British women's stories intertwined into one magnificent, smart, rambunctious novel.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Daddy Was a Number Runner - Louise Meriwether
The classic novel about growing up Black, female and poor in 1930s Harlem.
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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.
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.
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.
Rattlebone - Maxine Clair
A collection of stories about a Black girl coming of age in mid-20th century Kansas City.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
Wow....what a read.
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.
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.
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.
Let Him In....William Friend
Kate’s Review: “Let Him In” – The Library Ladies
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.
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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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