Cover to Cover in 2007
Tayari Jones: The Untelling
The author's publicist is a fan of my blog and sent me a copy, which she predicted I'd enjoy. She was so right. It took me forever to finish because I've been very preoccupied with my life this year. I'm positive no story has ever affected me as much as this one. I'm affected and changed by having read this novel.
What she said.David Sedaris: Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Favorite Collections of Stories:
1. Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer
2. How To Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer
3. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
Love, love, love this writer.
Cover to Cover in 2006
Four suicidal strangers meet at a popular suicide spot on New Year's Eve, each with the intent to jump, and their lives are changed by the chance meeting. A heavy subject is dealt with in a very comical way. This would be an awesome...and pretty profound...movie.
Zadie Smith: White Teeth
Stopped just past half...
I'm taking a break from this one. I'm halfway through it and am not enjoying the reading as much as I like to. Very challenging--a good thing-- as I said earlier, but I do need a break. I'm retiring it to my nightstand to finish bit by bit at night before bed.Julie Orringer: How to Breathe Underwater: Stories
I'm an instant fan. Brilliant writer.Lauren Weisberger: The Devil Wears Prada: A Novel
Loved it! Can't wait to see the movie.Zane: The Sex Chronicles : Shattering the Myth
I really didn't read this one cover to cover. Only read the first 4 or 5 stories. I thought I was grown, y'all, but I'm still a baby. I couldn't finish this one.
Cover to Cover in 2005
Hannah Crafts: A Bondwoman's Narrative
Technically, I "listened" to this book, but books on tape count too dammit!
What she saidArthur Golden: Memoirs of a Geisha: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries)
what she said
about the movieLawrence Otis Graham: Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class
Connie Briscoe: Sisters and Lovers
This was my second time reading this one. I read it once when I was a young teen, but wanted to again, just to see if it would be different. It's interesting becasue the author is deaf, and that's very evident in some of the odd dialog between her characters.Terry McMillan: The Interruption of Everything
What she saidZora Neale Hurston: Their Eyes Were Watching God
This was my third of fourth time reading this book. When I heard O was doing a movie version of it, I had to read it again to refresh. I was kind of surprised they left out the skin-tone issues...maybe 'cause Tea Cake's character in the movie wasn't dark-skinned like he was in the book. I don't think you can read this one too many times. Everytime the experience is different...especially if you read it at different stages in your life like I have...young teen, older teen, married woman, etc. It's such a rich work of fiction.
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Random musings of a black, professional, twenty-something, Austin, TX suburb dweller. I write about everything from books to racism to films to my two labradors/kids to that time I kicked my doctor in the head and grabbed his umhm by mistake.
Biography
I was born and raised in Memphis, TN. I'm the youngest of three (my twin brother is older by 2 minutes, but seems like 2 years). I graduated from Central High School--class of 1995. I attended a private catholic university in Memphis. I took one semester off to live in D.C. with my very brilliant sister, and worked at Starbucks and experienced the best 8 months of my life. I graduated with a B.A. in Psychology with a minor in Marketing. Just after graduation I got married to an awesome cool tech nerd West Indian fellow alum and moved to Austin, TX. I worked a few jobs when I first moved here, including Pottery Barn, and two jobs related to the city government. Loved PB, not so much love for the other two gigs. Eventually, we settled into our first home in the suburbs. We have 2 very large, black Lab mutt sisters (their father's a Newfoundland), Okie and Stella. I currently enjoy my job at a stereotypically "weird Austin" Marketing and Advertising company.
Interests
Music: alternative, some country, some folk, reggae, some hip hop (except most of what they play on the radio...sex rap is annoying), some R&B
Film: independent films, british films, romantic comedies, collin firth, julia roberts, hugh grant, alfree woodard, loretta divine, sanaa lathan
TV: scrubbs, seinfield, girlfriends, that's so raven, disney musicals, curb your enthusiasn, grey's anatomy, nip tuck
Books: books and more books
