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December 2008 Reading List
- Quicksand and Passing
Nella Larson - Imperium In Imperio
Sutton E. Griggs - 10 Bad Choices: That Ruin Black Women’s Life
Grace Cornish - A Mercy
Toni Morrison - The January Girl
Goldie Taylor - Now Is The Time To Open Your Heart
Alice Walker - Push
Sapphire - White Oleander
Janet Fitch (With) - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Diaz - Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl – A Woman’s Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship
Sherry Argov - Make It Happen
Kevin Liles - Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters: How the Quest for Perfection is Harming Young Women
Courtney Martin - The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison - The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran - Mama’s Girl
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It is good to see the novels Quicksand and Passing by Nella Larsen on this list. I don’t know if I ever would have picked either of these books up outside of college, but Quicksand is one of my favorite books.
i haven’t read white oleandar but i saw the movie. it’s worth a read. i just finished reading the brief wondrous life of oscar wao and it was amazing. definitely worthy of the pulitzer. push has been on my fav list for a long time and i can’t wait to see it on film. mama’s girl by veronica chambers paralleled some of my own experiences as a first generation american of panamanian descent living in new york and not speaking spanish (to the dismay of my older relatives). i haven’t read the bluest eye in years but i still remember how it touched me.
I’m going to have to check out “10 Bad Choices” and “Make it Happen” Quicksand was a great read!
I haven’t read it in a while either, but The Bluest Eye made me cry. I need to pick up PUSH once and for all. Oh, and if you liked Quicksand, I recommend Gayl Jones’s Corregidora (it may be out of print). And this may not need mentioning, but what about Their Eyes Were Watching God?
Okay, I am thankful for this list because I knew nothing of “A Mercy” by Toni Morrison and I see I am going to have to get up on Sherry Argov. Thanks you guys!
I had the pleasure of reading Harlem Renasaince writer Nella Larsen’s “Passing” and it was haunting, entertainging and an all around well crafted book. I did attempt to read Push by diva griot Sapphire and had no idea what the heck I was in for and I just had to put it down because it was too too raw and damn near scared me to death…..however, I will pick it up again and soldier my way through because as grimy and gripping as it is, I could tell that this was a story about redemption and I so pro redemption. As a Latina that speak a speck of spanish, I will pick up Mama’s Girl by Veronica Chambers who is one of literatures most prolific and gifted writers. Clutch I so love y’all!!!
I caught on to the sherry argov books a while back and they will change the course of you life. gotta love the female empowerment books.