We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates:
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/b...9780399590566/
We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates:
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/b...9780399590566/
The Little Stranger....Sarah Waters
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...ittle-stranger
Jam on the Vine by LaShonda Katrice Barnett
Just finished Michael Zadoorian's "Beautiful Music" set at Redford High School in the early 70's.
Having recently discovered the music of Stock, Aitken & Waterman [[yes, they truly ARE the "British Motown of the '80s!), I just finished reading:
1) "PWL [[Studios) From The Factory Floor" by Phil Harding [[contains a sessionography and other unexpected treats );
2) "The Hit Factory: The Stock Aitken Waterman Story" by Mike Stock [[contains an excellent SAW discography);
and I'm nearly finished reading:
3) "I Wish I Was Me: The Autobiography" by Pete Waterman.
Our House......Louise Candlish
https://www.washingtonpost.com/enter...?noredirect=on
The great gasbag,another book about our great president.
Blessed Life by Kim Fields with Todd Gold
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row by Anthony Ray Hinton, Lara Love Hardin, Bryan Stevenson
Delicious Foods by James Hannaham [[an old college mate of mine):
https://www.theguardian.com/books/20...annaham-review
The Good Lord Bird by James McBride:
https://www.npr.org/2013/08/23/21346...good-lord-bird
A disease of the public mind by thomas fleming.
https://virtualbookworm.com/products...w-they-re-here
"You Know They're Here"....about the famous Hinsdale haunting in New York.
Just the right time of year. Clara Dandy/Miller, who lived there, wrote the
first book of the house... "Echoes of a Haunting".
How It Feels to Be Free: Black Women Entertainers and the Civil Rights Movement by Ruth Feldstein:
http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/mob...-9780195314038
Harlem 69: The Future of Soul by Stuart Cosgrove
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Harlem-69-F.../dp/1846974208
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The House on Poultney Road
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...-poultney-road
I'm reading The Book Of Love but I don't know who wrote it.
The Kid by Sapphire
"Berry, Me, And Motown" by Raynoma Gordy Singleton. It's one of the earlier books devoted to Motown which I hadn't acquired. Frankly, after Berry had written about her pirating Motown records in NYC, I wanted no part of her. But after some of you were recently raving about how informative and revelatory her book is, I decided to take the plunge by buying a copy and giving her a chance. I'm glad I did. I just started reading it and I love it already!
Thanks, sansradio. I sure will! They haven't even gotten to the part where she and Berry start Motown, yet, on the surface, I like this lady already!
I have always thought it was a good book; I read it when it came out; was that in the 90’s?
Yeah, jobeterob, the publishing date is 1990. I don't whether it was ever reissued in paperback form, but my copy is the hard-cover version.
It reads like a novel. Easily my favourite Motown biography.
You're so right, 144man. You feel like you're right there participating in the creation of Tamla/Motown from the ground up -- day by day, step by step -- amid each and every thrilling leap forward and every heartbreaking setback. The neat thing about Raynoma's writing is that while spinning her romantic tale between her and Berry, the simultaneous music aspect and Motown story never takes a back seat. I should have bought this book when it first came out.
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Like a Natural Woman: Spectacular Female Performance in Classical Hollywood by Kirsten Pullen
Becoming michelle obama.
Percival Everett by Virgil Russell by Percival Everett
Winfield....In The Shadow of the Woolworths
by Monica Randall
The Sweet Hell Inside: A Family History by Edward Ball:
https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-688-16840-7
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son by Tim Wise:
https://www.amazon.com/White-Like-Me.../dp/1593764251
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Strength of a woman - the Phyllis Hyman story. Just finished it today. Quite harrowing in parts. Not an easy read but pleased I got through it
Have to confess I got the kindle sir. The chapter on her passing felt like I was back in time. So sad to discover how she suffered throughout her life. Spooky how I then loaded a CD on random play. It went straight to you sure look good to me. Onwards to the one about Luther now.
After Dark by Haruki Murakami:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17803.After_Dark
'The End of Eddie' by Edouard Louis
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie:
https://www.chimamanda.com/book/americanah/
Under a Hoodoo Moon: The Life of the Night Tripper
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Driving the King by Ravi Howard
A fictional memoir about the friendship between Nat King Cole and his chauffeur:
https://www.harpercollins.com/978006...ving-the-king/
The Bothell Hell House....by, Keith Linder
http://www.bothell-reporter.com/life...of-hell-house/
Grace by Natashia Deón:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27037157-grace
The residence by kate andersen brower.
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