Unmentionables

[Bizzy]

by David Greene



<span style="font-style: italic">Were any African American slaves gay? Of course.
Have you ever read about their lives? Probably not.
Now you can read a story that takes place &quot;outside history's earshot.&quot;

Unmentionables is about two pairs of lovers in the Civil War south. One couple is straight, white, and wealthy. The other couple is gay, black, and enslaved.

Field hand Jimmy meets Cato, a house servant from a nearby plantation. Jimmy, who despises whites, mistakes Cato for a white man. But soon he learns that Cato is only half white. Cato is the illegitimate son of plantation owner Augustus Askew. With time, Jimmy's fascination with Cato grows into romantic love.

Unmentionables is also the story of Dorothy Holland, whose parents own Jimmy. Dorothy does not want any man to control her life. When she falls in love with Cato's half-brother, William Askew, she must persuade him to agree to her terms, and to betray his role as a Confederate army officer.</span>

[Bizzy]

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Got this on my Kindle for $2.99. Me and my girls were sitting around after our book club meeting surfing out kindle and one of the ladies saw this and read the book description and we were hooked.

As common as I'm sure it must have been, I've never EVER thought about slaves being homosexual...

Have couple chapters left in this book and I had to force myself to out it down. Love the character development...at times you can guess what's coming next and other times it mek yuh say WTFuddlebugs....For once, I'm not turned off by the gay &quot;romance/sex scenes&quot; It's very erotic and well written w/o being over the top or disgusting better than any E Lynn Harris

I highly recommend if the civil war/slavery era is interesting to you.

Those that read Cane River mighte njoy this as well

I just hope the ending doesn't disappoint me

[Jazz]

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Thanks - gonna get - I finished off everything on my reading list and wasn't sure which way to go next

[Bizzy]

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Veddy veddy good read...and nice n long like i like my books to be

[seemiyah]

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Hmmm...i don't know, if it was free I would get it but I will add it to a list of maybe's.

One of my bookclubs just chose <span style="font-weight: bold">&quot;The Last Days of Ptolemy Gray&quot; by Walter Mosley</span>, its not the standard Mosley mystery

<span style="font-style: italic">From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. Mosley (Known to Evil) plays out an intriguing premise in his powerful latest: a man is given a second shot at life, but at the price of a hastened death. Ptolemy Grey is a 91-year-old man, suffering from dementia and living as a recluse in his Los Angeles apartment. With one foot in the past and the other in the grave, Ptolemy begins to open up when Robyn Small, a 17-year-old family friend, appears and helps clean up his apartment and straighten out his life. A reinvigorated Ptolemy volunteers for an experimental medical program that will restore his mind, but at hazardous cost: he won't live to see 92. With the clock ticking, Ptolemy uses his rejuvenated mental abilities to delve into the mystery of the recent drive-by shooting death of his great-nephew, Reggie, and to render justice the only way he knows how, goaded and guided by the memory of his murdered childhood mentor, Coydog McCann. Though the details of the experimental procedure are less than convincing, Mosley's depiction of the indignities of old age is heartbreaking, and Ptolemy's grace and decency make for a wonderful character and a moving novel. (Nov.) (c)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. </span>

[Jazz]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Bizi_Oh_Em_Gee</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Veddy veddy good read...and nice n long like i like my books to be </div></div>

I got it - will start on the weekend!

[Jazz]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: seemiyah</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Hmmm...i don't know, if it was free I would get it but I will add it to a list of maybe's.

One of my bookclubs just chose <span style="font-weight: bold">&quot;The Last Days of Ptolemy Gray&quot; by Walter Mosley</span>, its not the standard Mosley mystery

<span style="font-style: italic">From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. Mosley (Known to Evil) plays out an intriguing premise in his powerful latest: a man is given a second shot at life, but at the price of a hastened death. Ptolemy Grey is a 91-year-old man, suffering from dementia and living as a recluse in his Los Angeles apartment. With one foot in the past and the other in the grave, Ptolemy begins to open up when Robyn Small, a 17-year-old family friend, appears and helps clean up his apartment and straighten out his life. A reinvigorated Ptolemy volunteers for an experimental medical program that will restore his mind, but at hazardous cost: he won't live to see 92. With the clock ticking, Ptolemy uses his rejuvenated mental abilities to delve into the mystery of the recent drive-by shooting death of his great-nephew, Reggie, and to render justice the only way he knows how, goaded and guided by the memory of his murdered childhood mentor, Coydog McCann. Though the details of the experimental procedure are less than convincing, Mosley's depiction of the indignities of old age is heartbreaking, and Ptolemy's grace and decency make for a wonderful character and a moving novel. (Nov.) (c)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. </span> </div></div>

I am intrigued by the premise... - let me go check it out

[Bizzy]

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Ok, so he couldn't remember anything and then he did the surgery and now can remember everything....the drawback is that he will die within the year

I gotta get the sample to see if this ting ketch mi or not

[seemiyah]

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yeah I guess she just chose the book today and I am going to see if the Library have it first cause yes me cheap!

[Bizzy]

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a how much book club u inna?

[seemiyah]

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Two, the &quot;white&quot; one where we read anything (almost always white authors) and the &quot;black&quot; one where we read only black authors.

[Jazz]

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I didn't like this book

[Bizzy]

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BOADWL Why not?

[Jazz]

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OK aside of the fact that some ah de romantic scene dem tun mi stomach...

It just didn't read realistic to me (not the relationships themselves) but the chain of events and some of the characters responses...

I tried to suspend my disbelief but lawks I was thoroughly disgusted by the middle of the book and by the end of the book I felt like I should sue somebody for the wasted time (you came to mind )

[seemiyah]

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Well is a good ting mi neva buy it, cause Bizi woulda get put inna di Gen book recommendation category......