I've been on a Walter Mosely kick, having read "Cinnamon Kiss" and "White Butterfly," "Big Boy Brawley Brown" and "Black Betty" before.

Now, I'm reading



while trying to balance all that grit, noir and sin out with a compilation of the writings of Howard Thurman, who was straight-up brilliant.




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fun stuff - it's a yearly anthology of the most uncategorizably interesting magazine/journal/blog writing of the year, as chosen by a group of high school students and edited by dave eggers. sufjan stevens wrote this year's intro.

ZombieKitten said:

Have read this some, always gravitate to it when I am in the book store. I should just buy it.

here's two of many.

Really enjoying it so far and has got me thinking about society and how the world works in a way I wouldn't have thought about.

evenstar said:

Prfff.

These are picture books.

I feel like an idiot when these posts come up...I never read....

I'd like to read this one:



I loved his other one:



and he has cool hair

rushing07 said:

i can't really read! don't tell anyone!

I'm in a reading slump.

There was a time I was buying 2-4 books a week and that habit had to stop, so I finally slowed down, but now I've gone the opposite direction. I haven't picked up anything good in months. Of course, I can't get to sleep without reading each night, so I've been pulling old favorites off the shelf and re-reading them.
I shall have to remedy that soon.

CarrieMpls said:

Libraries are the cheap alternative. Search through your city's library system electronically (a la Amazon.com) and have interesting titles transferred to the branch nearest you.

Save a ton of $$.

ThreadBare said:

Good point. I have a library card. It's a shame I don't use it. I should.

Just finished reading The Measure of a Man, but Sidney Portier. Very good and well written.

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Oh ive heard of this guy.. smokes and swears alot, right?

roodboi said:

what the hell do you think you are doing when you come into this forum?

read this on saturday and sunday, couldn't put it down, should have been studying


But it was great!

I bought a book for Redbaby. I hope she's enjoying it.

I just started it, but it seems like it's going to be a juicy and exciting read.



I have a friend who loves all of this guy's stuff and she recommended it to me.

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ZombieKitten said:

Zombie, both of those books are really great reads.

Blink had a lot of great moments that stayed with me, like the whole section on the musical artist Kenna and the music industry -- I thought his theories there were well executed. And the section on Bill Clinton and Action Units was interesting, too. I think you'll really get a kick out of that section. There's some great ideas I really took away from that one. And the ending is CHILLING.

The Tipping Point is great, too. There were a lot of concepts and ideologies that were fascinating. The whole "Stickiness Factor" concept can be applied to so many things. He did a great job of pounding it out with everything from Hush Puppies to the Goetz scandal. I thought that was pretty cool.

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"The inheritance of loss" by Kiran Desai.

It's a good read, but nothing spectacular in my opinion.

evenstar said:

Thank God you look good.

rushing07 said:

it's a just a mask.

evenstar said:

Thank god for the mask then.