What you reading now?

[CeaBee]

CB recommend her book, The Husband's Secret, which was a good read.

me did just seh me was gwine buy it based on price and amazon reviews.

after me read it, me never recommend it.

[Peasie]

me did just seh me was gwine buy it based on price and amazon reviews.

after me read it, me never recommend it.

I liked it.

[CeaBee]

I liked it.

you like everything.

[seemiyah]

you like everything.

Is true, but me did like it too! Actually everyone at bookclub liked it and it spurred good discussions.

[Peasie]

I like Seemiyah and mi doan mine CB really

[Blackstar*]

Inspector Morse: The first three novels by Colin Dexter

[CeaBee]

I don't have anything interesting on my kindle to read.

later tonight I'll go look to see what the library has to offer #freeness

[Gen]

thinking of borrowing this next, never got around to reading it




Named the Dolman Travel Book of the Year, The Dead Yard paints an unforgettable portrait of modern Jamaica. Since independence, Jamaica has gradually become associated with twin images--a resort-style travel Eden for foreigners and a new kind of hell for Jamaicans, a society where gangs control the areas where most Jamaicans live and drug lords like Christopher Coke rule elites and the poor alike.

Ian Thomson's brave book explores a country of lost promise, where America's hunger for drugs fuels a dependent economy and shadowy politics. The lauded birthplace of reggae and Bob Marley, Jamaica is now sunk in corruption and hopelessness. A synthesis of vital history and unflinching reportage, The Dead Yard is "a fascinating account of a beautiful, treacherous country" (Irish Times).

[evanovitch]

thinking of borrowing this next, never got around to reading it




Named the Dolman Travel Book of the Year, The Dead Yard paints an unforgettable portrait of modern Jamaica. Since independence, Jamaica has gradually become associated with twin images--a resort-style travel Eden for foreigners and a new kind of hell for Jamaicans, a society where gangs control the areas where most Jamaicans live and drug lords like Christopher Coke rule elites and the poor alike.

Ian Thomson's brave book explores a country of lost promise, where America's hunger for drugs fuels a dependent economy and shadowy politics. The lauded birthplace of reggae and Bob Marley, Jamaica is now sunk in corruption and hopelessness. A synthesis of vital history and unflinching reportage, The Dead Yard is "a fascinating account of a beautiful, treacherous country" (Irish Times).

brilliant read…if mi did deh down south mi woulda sen mi copy fi u but posting from up north yah is onerous…. u wi read bout di family of one of mi school mate who had dem butler at the family home in the country…di irony to me is dat she grew up to marry a well-know Rasta musician….…talk about an about turn from schooldays….

[Peasie]

On a road trip and listening to Eric Clapton's autobiography read by Bill Nighy. Was a good listen even though the reader pronounced Ocho Rios as 'Oko Rios.'

great history of music lesson in this book

[CeaBee]

Still reading

I downloaded two from the library today:




How do you follow up a debut that's a New York Times bestseller, an Oprah Book Club Selection that's still in the Amazon top 100 two years after publication? If you're canny like Cleage, author of What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day, you write a sequel, of course. Returning to Idlewild, Mich., the setting of her first book, Cleage takes up the story of Joyce, big sister to Ava, who was the focus of the original and who is absent from this one, traveling the country with her husband, Eddie.

Fortysomething Joyce, a dedicated social worker, has always tended to be an optimist, despite her overwhelmingly tragic life. Her mother committed suicide on her wedding night, her two children died young and her beloved husband drowned five years ago. She's since taken to wearing black, but now she feels ready to wear red again, hence the title. The opportunity to do so comes in the form of Nate Anderson, a new student counselor in town who sees in Joyce the romantic woman who's still beneath the surface

. Meanwhile, there's a lot going on at the Sewing Circus, the space Joyce uses for social work. Inspirational, idealistic and spiritual, the book is also sometimes judgmental, and a decidedly "women good, men bad" tone occasionally creeps in; some readers may find this unappealing. The bulk of the book is more about .problem solving specifically, Joyce's efforts at helping young African-American women become "free women" than it is about romance.

[CeaBee]

Jason Fitger is a beleaguered professor of creative writing and literature at Payne University, a small and not very distinguished liberal arts college in the midwest. His department is facing draconian cuts and squalid quarters, while one floor above them the Economics Department is getting lavishly remodeled offices.

His once-promising writing career is in the doldrums, as is his romantic life, in part as the result of his unwise use of his private affairs for his novels. His star (he thinks) student can't catch a break with his brilliant (he thinks) work Accountant in a Bordello, based on Melville's Bartleby.

In short, his life is a tale of woe, and the vehicle this droll and inventive novel uses to tell that tale is a series of hilarious letters of recommendation that Fitger is endlessly called upon by his students and colleagues to produce, each one of which is a small masterpiece of high dudgeon, low spirits, and passive-aggressive strategies. We recommend Dear Committee Members to you in the strongest possible terms.

[Emperah]

Blasted skkkool wukk

[CeaBee]

Blasted skkkool wukk

hush

me too middle school math

#schoolsucksYesIsaidit

[Peasie]