I'm reading...

[Nunya]

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I read a Zane once.... how's her stuff like Harris'? [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/70402-thinking.gif[/img]

(haven't ever read his...)

[julie*mango]

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Her stuff is in a league of it own [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif[/img] But it's good to read some of that stuff to your lover. [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/70377-loveeyes.gif[/img]

[Magician]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Empress_Skelly</div><div class="ubbcode-body">So I guess you not into Zane then [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif[/img]
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A who him? First time me hear bout im. [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/confused.gif[/img]

[CeaBee]

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she less [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/eek.gif[/img] than e lynn harris and dickey?

never read any of her books either.

[julie*mango]

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She's as raw as they come. I likey. [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/70409-waytogo.gif[/img]

[Nunya]

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I've only read one Zane, 'Addicted' I think it was called...

Anyhoo, I was less than thrilled... for erotica it was aight... (I've read erotica that got the job done [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/blush.gif[/img] her's never quite made the trip) but she tried to fit in a storyline about a little girl who was touched as a child and grew up to be a nympho and couldn't understand why... Zane was in over her head...

Funny, I remember placing the order at a black book store in Brampton, and the disappointed look the store owner gave me ~lol~ [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/eek.gif[/img] I should've taken a clue from that...

[julie*mango]

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Read the sex chronicles....short stories. Read them to your SO...he'll get a kick out of it. [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif[/img]

[Gen]

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let's see what am I reading [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/70402-thinking.gif[/img]

oh yes the hearing in Washington on "partnership carried interests" simultaneously with "federal taxation comprehensive topics"


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[Nylah]

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Just finished reading The Kite Runner bu Khaled Hosseni and started The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill.

The Kite Runner was a terrific book about betrayal and unwavering loyalty.

The Book of Negroes so far is good as well. About the effect of slavery from a woman's perspective.

[ILP]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Nylah</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Just finished reading The Kite Runner bu Khaled Hosseni </div></div>

His new one Thousand Splendid Suns is [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/70409-waytogo.gif[/img]

[Nylah]

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I bought Thousand Splendid Suns for my friend as a present last month. So now I'll have to borrow it. [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif[/img]

Hosseni is an amazing writer.

[Daoud4]

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Magic I'd love to hear about the poems, what are the subjects?

I just finished Standing At The Scratch Line by Guy Johnson, currently reading part two, Echo's Of A Distance Summer. Just taking a break think I'll go back to reading it now.

[churchgirl]

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Read Brown Paper Bag by Venus Theus and finishing up Escape from China by Zhang Boli.

[msportmore]

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i am ALSO reading [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif[/img]

[seemiyah]

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I am reading The Icarus Girl by Helen Oyeyemi


From Publishers Weekly
The story of a troubled eight-year-old haunted and ultimately possessed by family secrets, this spooky debut novel from a 20-year-old Nigerian-born Cambridge student is sure to garner attention for its precocity and literary self-consciousness. The sensitive protagonist, Jessamy Harrison, born to a British father and Nigerian mother, writes haikus and reads Shakespeare, but regularly throws tantrums and avoids social interaction both at school and at home. As an intervention, her parents take her to stay with family in Nigeria for the summer. At her grandfather's compound, she encounters TillyTilly, a mysterious girl who seems to know everything about Jess and who, Jess realizes, is not visible to anyone else. In Nigeria with TillyTilly, Jess finds a sense of belonging and intimacy for the first time, but when Jess returns to England, TillyTilly becomes less comforting and more troublesome. In confident, heavily stylized prose, Oyeyemi illustrates Jess's cultural dislocation, using both Nigerian and Christian imagery to evoke a sense of her unreality. As sophisticated as she is, Jess's eight-year-old observations provide a limited lens, and at times, the novel's fantasy element veers into young adult suspense territory.