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[Maya]

Beverly wrote: "Lulu wrote: "Anastasia wrote: "Lulu wrote: "I recently finished Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II and it took me forev..."

I have that on my TBR list and the documentary. I need to move up the list

[Maya]

The Lena Baker Story

this is my read for the weekend. there is also the movie(same title) I am going to watch this weekend as well

[Lulu, The Book Reader who could.]

Maya wrote: "The Lena Baker Story

this is my read for the weekend. there is also the movie(same title) I am going to watch this weekend as well"

I've read about her story before. I did't know there was a movie as well.

[Jane]

Just started Strange Fruit by Lillian Smith

[Dosha (Bluestocking7)]

I am reading Respect: The Story of Aretha Franklin. It is quite the eye opener.

[Dosha (Bluestocking7)]

It is much more entertaining and informative than I thought it would be. The Queen of soul Sister is something else!

[Jane]

Absolutely amazing novel cannot believe I had not read this before

[Dosha (Bluestocking7)]

I'll have to look into this one.

[C.P.]

King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild

[Andrew]

Started Binti by Nnedi Okorafor and listening to A Stranger in Olondria audio book by Sofia Samatar.

[Beverly]

Andrew wrote: "Started Binti by Nnedi Okorafor and listening to A Stranger in Olondria audio book by Sofia Samatar.

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How is the audio for [book:A Stranger in Olondria|12814333] - I have had this book on my tbr for a little while?

I liked Binti and hope this is just the first book in a series. While reading I was reminded of Octavia Butler's early books..

[Andrew]

Beverly wrote: "Andrew wrote: "Started Binti by Nnedi Okorafor and listening to A Stranger in Olondria audio book by Sofia Samatar.

[bookcover:Bint..."

Hi Beverly, I find the language in which "A Stranger in Olondria" is presented is rather nice - some might say beautiful, but I haven't found the characters, so far, very engaging. But I'm still part through.

Binti is much more engaging and easy to follow.

[Aphrodite]

The two books I am reading are: The Five Dharma Types: Vedic Wisdom for Discovering Your Purpose and Destiny The Alchemist

[Beverly]

Andrew wrote: "Beverly wrote: "Andrew wrote: "Started Binti by Nnedi Okorafor and listening to A Stranger in Olondria audio book by Sofia Samatar.
..."

Thanks for your thoughts on A Stranger in Olondria. I will admit that I am a little more interested in reading her latest The Winged Histories.

[Trudy]

Just finished THE STORIED LIFE OF A J FIKRY.
Loved it!

[Zanna]

I'm dutifully reading 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
I've been reading out-of-print books excerpted in Daughters of Africa that I managed to find second hand copies of, including As The Sorcerer Said, Long Road to Nowhere and Ripples and Jagged Edges. I had to edit the covers and descriptions of these books on goodreads - so many under-read works by Black women.

[Andrew]

Now reading The Navajo Code Talkers: The History of the Native American Marines Behind World War II's Most Uncrackable Code by Chester Smith and listening to The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps audio book by Kai Ashante Wilson.

[Beverly]

I am currently listening to Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America by Jill Leovy

Reading:
We Love You, Charlie Freeman: A Novel by Kaitlyn Greenidge
This is debut novel by a black author that is getting good reviews.
"The power of this novel resides in Kaitlyn Greenidge’s undeniable storytelling talents. What appears to be a story of mothers and daughters, of sisterhood put to the test, of adolescent love and grown-up misconduct, and of history’s long reach, becomes a provocative and compelling exploration of America’s failure to find a language to talk about race."

Ginny Gall by Charlie Smith
In her “Glossary of Harlem Slang” (1942), Zora Neale Hurston defined Ginny Gall as “a suburb of Hell,”
Delvin Walker is just a boy when his mother flees their home in the Red Row section of Chattanooga, accused of killing a white man. Taken in by Cornelius Oliver, proprietor of the town’s leading Negro funeral home, he discovers the art of caring for the aggrieved, the promise of transcendence in the written word, and a rare peace in a hostile world. Yet tragedy visits them near-daily, and after a series of devastating events—a lynching, a church burning—Delvin fears being accused of murdering a local white boy and leaves town.

[Lulu, The Book Reader who could.]

I'm listening to: The Husband's Secret and reading: Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America and Because We Are: A Novel of Haiti

[Beverly]

Zanna wrote: "I'm dutifully reading 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
I've been reading out-of-print books excerpted in Daughters of Africa that I managed to find secon..."

Daughters of Africa is a wonderful anthology that I still love to reference when looking for books. Yes, so many wonderful authors whose books have gone out-of-print.
Since this book was published in the early 1990s I wonder if someone will do an updated version for authors/books after the 1990s?

I look forward to reading your reviews on the books you have found.

[Beverly]

Andrew wrote: "Now reading The Navajo Code Talkers: The History of the Native American Marines Behind World War II's Most Uncrackable Code by Chester Smith and listening to ..."</i>

How is the [book:The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps?
It was on several Best of the Year lists and has been nominated/won awards.

[Guy]

Zanna wrote: "I'm dutifully reading 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
I've been reading out-of-print books excerpted in Daughters of Africa that I managed to find secon..."

"Dutifully reading"? That made me smile. What makes it a duty? I ask, in part, because I've a degree in economics and have written two 'anti-economics' courses, Economics Debunked and Banks Skanks. In the first I argue that economics has become our biggest and most powerful religion. It's a fun course, and pokes holes in the so-called 'law' of supply and demand, the use of greed as a rationalizing behaviour, for example, as well as most other aspects of the sacred rules of economics.

[Zanna]

Guy wrote: "Zanna wrote: "I'm dutifully reading 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
I've been reading out-of-print books excerpted in Daughters of Africa that I managed..."

Sure, I explain in the first paragraph or two of my review why I read it https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I agree that economics, or most of its premises are in need of debunking haha

[Zanna]

Beverly wrote: "Zanna wrote: "I'm dutifully reading 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
I've been reading out-of-print books excerpted in Daughters of Africa that I managed..."

You can already see some of my reviews of Daughters of Africa books:
As the Sorcerer Said by Myriam Warner-Vieyra
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga (5 star favourite for me and 500 Great Books By Women list as well)
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Long Road to Nowhere by Amryl Johnson
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Before they can Speak of Flowers by Elean Thomas
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Ripples and Jagged Edges by Iyamide Hazeley
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and

Land of Rope and Tory by Marsha Prescod
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I should have made a Daughters of Africa shelf... now I'm doing it, which will take ages >_<

I'm now reading Abeng by Michelle Cliff, the prequel to No Telephone to Heaven. I'm loving this book - I like that she separates the Jamaican history parts from the narrative about the protagonist - these stories swirl around her, but she doesn't know them, and that lack is emphasised by the abrupt breaks from one mode to the other.

[Cynthia]

RhondaBKing wrote: "I just finished The Kitchen House.... I loved it, didn't want the book to end. Great read for sure."

I read it and loved it as well. I pre-ordered the sequel.

[Guy]

Zanna wrote: "Guy wrote: "Zanna wrote: "I'm dutifully reading 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
I've been reading out-of-print books excerpted in Daughters of Africa th..."

Excellent review, Zanna. I've heard of the book because of my nearly 20 years of unearthing the false-truths of our current economic ideology.

With your interest in the myths of capitalist economics piqued, I strongly suggest you give two books that will complement and expand your analysis. The first is short and very readable. It is by the multi-award winning Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood: Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth. The other is much bigger, but I found it a very readable page turner: Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber. Graeber, an anthropologist, looks at the economics of debt from that perspective.

His observations are amazing and completely revisionist and well founded. It is filled with gems, one of the being the role of debt in creating the slave trade. And, one of the underreported things of history was that at its high point, Graeber sites estimates that about 30% of Rome's population were slaves. Being a slave at that time had no moral aspect to it, as all acknowledged that on many occasions a slave was superior in every human way than his/her slave owner. Fascinating book and his bibliography is massive. And it will change forever how you look at the world and history and how it's told. It did for me, as it confirmed what my years of research had been pointing towards.

[Guy]

I'm finishing Candida Cure by Ann Boroch.

Wow! Everyone, please research the role of candida toxicity in our culture. It is the hidden pandemic that is likely the single biggest contributor to everything from fatigue to skin problems, obesity and diabetes, mental problems and addictive behaviours, to MS, dementia, and cancer. We hear in the news, regularly, of the growing epidemics of cancer, allergies, autism, etc. And it is not a coincidence, Ann argues, that these epidemics have occurred in tandem with the replacement of natural foods with highly processed and highly sugared ones.

Boroch healed herself of MS by addressing the candida toxicity in her system present because of a childhood diet excessively filled with processed sugars and poor carbohydrates.

Last week I began her 90 day programme to clear that, and I'm already beginning to feel a difference in energy. And my diet wasn't all that unhealthy to begin with, because I'd reduced my sugars and poor carbs about four years ago!

[Zanna]

Lulu wrote: "I'm listening to: The Husband's Secret and reading: Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America and Because We Are: A Novel of Haiti"

Sister Citizen had been on my list for a long time, I love MHP... Because We Are looks like an interesting read! I'm not usually keen on crime/mystery fic though

[Zanna]

I just started The Street by Ann Petry
I am so gripped!! What a build-up

[Andrew]

Just started reading The Healing Sun: Sunlight and Health in the 21st Century by Richard Hobday.

[Zanna]

Now I'm reading Sequins for a Ragged Hem by Amryl Johnson. It's a kind of memoir of her going to her birthplace (Trinidad) after living in the UK for many years. She goes to Grenada during the Jewel period - I cherish accounts of this! It has 'supernatural' elements because she senses the presence of an ancestor she can't identify. She's constantly reminded of history in painful ways - at a marketplace she thinks about slaves being sold, at a waterfall she thinks about Carib people jumping to their deaths rather than be captured but mainly she writes about having a good time, almost a tourist memoir

[Beverly]

I am reading the following:

The Book of Memory by Petina Gappah

The Yid by Paul Goldberg

Listening to:

Version Control by Dexter Palmer

[Carol]

I am reading The Strangler Vine by M.J. Carter, and Anarchy and Old Dogs by Colin Cotterill.

I have become increasingly aware of my general ignorance of Asian history, so rather than taking a class or reading non-fiction (which i wouldn't sustain despite the guilt or best efforts), I'm picking up bits and pieces through good fiction reads. These two are excellent.

[Beverly]

Carol wrote: "I am reading The Strangler Vine by M.J. Carter, and Anarchy and Old Dogs by Colin Cotterill.

I have become increasingly aware of gener..."

Ha - I am the same way - learn through fiction and then it helps me better focus on if a NF book would help me learn even more.

And really enjoy mystery series for that.

[Karin]

I just started The Kitchen House last night, but I will have to go ahead and continue with Glory over Everything: Beyond The Kitchen House because I got a free copy for a book discussion that is this month.

[Dosha (Bluestocking7)]

Karin wrote: "I just started The Kitchen House last night, but I will have to go ahead and continue with Glory over Everything: Beyond The Kitchen House because I got a free copy f..."

I had a hard time putting Kitchen House down. I hope you like it as much as I did and more so that you love book 2 also - I have a hold on book 2 at the library.

I'm getting ready to start for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf tonight. I'm looking forward to the discussion.

[Karin]

Dosha (Bluestocking7) wrote: "Karin wrote: "I just started The Kitchen House last night, but I will have to go ahead and continue with Glory over Everything: Beyond The Kitchen House because I got..."

I do like it, but am trying to finish a couple of books I've been going through for a while, too. I just found out that The Kitchen House is one of the April books of the month in another group, too, so that will help me get through it sooner. I've only read 15 pages so far, but am already liking it.

[Guy]

I'm reading an English translation of the ancient vedic text, Yoga Vasishta, which is an exploration of the world as a dream, and the truth of life coming resting in spiritual awareness of the expansiveness of God.

http://yogavasishta.org/

[Andrew]

Now listening to The Emperor's Blades audio book by Brian Staveley.

[Zanna]

Beverly wrote: "Ha - I am the same way - learn through fiction and then it helps me better focus on if a NF book would help me learn even more."

Me too, so much.

I'm about to start reading Tar Baby by Toni Morrison after I finished Two Women In One by Nawal El-Saadawi

[Carol]

I am several pages into On Black Sisters Street by Chika Unigwe and looking forward to making a meaningful dent in it this evening.

[Andrew]

Started reading ISIS IS US: The Shocking Truth Behind the Army of Terror by George Washington's Blog and listening to Adulthood Rites audio book by Octavia E. Butler.

[Dosha (Bluestocking7)]

I am enjoying 3 books:
Respect: The Life of Aretha Franklin
Saleh's Children
Destiny's Child

[Ernest]

The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

[Dosha (Bluestocking7)]

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness is driving me crazy. Just about very page is highlighted or underlined because every word hits bone deep. It depresses me and angers me so much, I have to put it down for months at a time. I'm. I'm about 30% through it.

I would love to hear your thoughts on it.

[Beverly]

Currently reading:

The Association of Small Bombs by Karan Mahajan

A bomb in a Delhi marketplace sets off Karan Mahajan’s The Association of Small Bombs, a novel about the ways in which tragedy reverberates. In the bombing, the Khuranas, who are Hindu, lose both their sons while the son of the Ahmeds, who are Muslim, survives.

Black Deutschland: A Novel by Darryl Pinckney
Jed--young, gay, black, out of rehab and out of prospects in his hometown of Chicago--flees to the city of his fantasies, a museum of modernism and decadence: Berlin. The paradise that tyranny created, the subsidized city isolated behind the Berlin Wall, is where he's chosen to become the figure that he so admires, the black American expatriate.

[Carol]

I started Khan Al-Khalili by Naguib Mahfouz. It takes place in 1942 and the bombing of Egypt by Hitler is the backdrop for the always timely debate about whether progress and innovation requires destruction of the past.

[Kenyia]

I am currently reading My Soul to Keep

[Kenyia]

Sorry, forgot to list the author lol.

I am currently reading My Soul to Keep by Tananarive Due

[Lulu, The Book Reader who could.]

Keisha wrote: "Sorry, forgot to list the author lol.

I am currently reading My Soul to Keep by Tananarive Due"

Loved this one!!