What you reading now?

[evanovitch]

Now reading "The Frackers" A history of FRACKING by a Wall Street Journal Journalist....

And a book called Black Poppies on the black Experience in WWI. I read this in the bath. Has a Chapter on Norman Manleys war time experience.... I find it unsatisfactory... A major mistake. He looks at the WIR... got some facts wrong, they also fought in East Africa. It looks at it simply from a british perspective.. ignoring htatehrre were thousand of German black soldiers ... no mention of the indians.. But it is grist to teh mill so to speak!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Black-Poppies-Britains-Community-Great-ebook/dp/B00B9BL7XS/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1425914657&sr=1-1&keywords=black+poppies

I am also reading " The Parthian"..

Cant read one book at a time!

me too

[evanovitch]

Wahalla, in the Garvey book there is a story about young Father Manley being asked to volunteer to help the workers...his answer was in the negative...am going to find the section n post it...certainly blows the idea that he was from the get go on the side of workers..i always have said this given that he later became the lawyer for the United Fruit Company who as u know the US Big Stick Foreign Policy was established to prop up there takeover of fruit production etc in the Caribbean, Central, Latin n South America

[kia027]

On deck is the Oxford book of Caribbean Short Stories

[seemiyah]

Reading two right now

1. Tide Running by Oonya Kempadoo ( so far I like that it is written in the dialect I can really hear them when I read, and as a bonus a part in the book they referenced the song Uptown Top Ranking which I had totally forgotten about then I was playing it all night on youtube )

Cliff and Ossi have grown up in Plymouth on the island of Tobago, their lives turning on the axis of small-town life. One day they watch the arrival of a couple and their child at a luxurious house overlooking the ocean. The couple invites Cliff into their home and lives, and in that cool'flim-style' house, the harsh, brittle life of urban Plymouth is kept briefly at bay, desires obscuring differences in class and race. But then things begin to go wrong-money vanishes, the couple's car disappears-and those differences are brought suddenly to light, raising unsettling questions about relationships, wealth, and responsibility.

2. Lean In: Women, Work, and the will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg (This really have me thinking about my career....)

Thirty years after women became 50 percent of the college graduates in the United States, men still hold the vast majority of leadership positions in government and industry. This means that women’s voices are still not heard equally in the decisions that most affect our lives. In Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg examines why women’s progress in achieving leadership roles has stalled, explains the root causes, and offers compelling, commonsense solutions that can empower women to achieve their full potential.

Sandberg is the chief operating officer of Facebook and is ranked on Fortune’s list of the 50 Most Powerful Women in Business and as one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People in the World. In 2010, she gave an electrifying TEDTalk in which she described how women unintentionally hold themselves back in their careers. Her talk, which became a phenomenon and has been viewed more than two million times, encouraged women to “sit at the table,” seek challenges, take risks, and pursue their goals with gusto.

In Lean In, Sandberg digs deeper into these issues, combining personal anecdotes, hard data, and compelling research to cut through the layers of ambiguity and bias surrounding the lives and choices of working women. She recounts her own decisions, mistakes, and daily struggles to make the right choices for herself, her career, and her family. She provides practical advice on negotiation techniques, mentorship, and building a satisfying career, urging women to set boundaries and to abandon the myth of “having it all.” She describes specific steps women can take to combine professional achievement with personal fulfillment and demonstrates how men can benefit by supporting women in the workplace and at home.

Written with both humor and wisdom, Sandberg’s book is an inspiring call to action and a blueprint for individual growth. Lean In is destined to change the conversation from what women can’t do to what they can.

[Suesumba]

The Harlot by the Side of the Road

by Jonathan Kirsch


"forbidden tales of the bible"


Deconstructs the bible. Sex Violence.Scanals.

[Suesumba]

The Harlot by the Side of the Road

by Jonathan Kirsch


"forbidden tales of the bible"


Deconstructs the bible. Sex Violence.Scandals.

[Wahalla]

I was on holiday in Barbados: celebrating a 70 bithday of a dear friend and the 9th wedding anniversay of her daughter...I did nothing much but improve my swimming, drink lots of rumpunch, pina coladas and a bottle of whiskey eat unhealthy breakfasts, stayed under the parasol. Did g to the gym 11 of the 12 days though...Eat at Cheffette....the Bajan Rival of KFC..They do a pretty good roti!

I didn't do much reading...except for the Bajan newspapers. I read MMe Sun Yat Sen by Jung Chang....of Wild Swans fame... it is a small praise poem to a woman, 120 pages ..it was un satisfactory it was irritable as there was alot of information missing.. I suspect she will come up with a more detailed book in the near future following ...It does clear up the evolution of revolution in China. The development of Kuomintang and the communst party and how Sun Yat Sen was.

MMe Sun Yat Sen Ching Ling was one of the three Soong daughters. The Chinese equivalent of the Mitford sisters. Except the Soongs were not waste of spaces as the Milford sisters. One was the richest woman in the world and the other was the wife of Chiang Kai Chieek....Her brother was the finance minister of the Kuomintang under Chiang... Ching Ling was by all accounts a very beautiful driven woman who ended as President of China as well as being the first lady. she survived two assisination attempts by her brother in law.. Was accused of being a promiscious, but was the only voice of opposition to the nationalist in China after the death of her husband Sun...And is reported to have the remarkable ability to make every man fall in love with her!!!!! She was highly inteligent, fun loving and feminine.... an antithesis to feminism of the west!

It does mention an interesting character "Two gun Cohen"..who was Sun Yat Sens body guard.

now i have to find and read a biography of Sun Yat Sen. I also hope Jung Chang does this as her next book.. Sun Yat Sen. She has done a biographies of Mao, Ching Ling (MM Sun Yat Sen) Empress Cixi.

Jung Chang needs to do a biography of Chiang Kai Cheick as well.. It takes her 10 years to publish a book and they are usually banned/ censored in China... but the Chinese authorities still give her access to their archives!!!!!!! I reccomed this book but not till you read her other books expecially Emperess Cixi...odd i would recommned the last book of an authour before the first book. But the Cixi predated Ching Ling and alot of the Ching Ling life wont seem logical till you know some of the previous history... in fact i would recommend this book before you read her Mao Biography!

So the order to read Jung books are: Empress Cixi, MMe Sun Yat Sen then Mao....as in their historical order ! She wrote thhem in the order MM Sun Yat Sen, Mao then Empress Cixi.

Why this is important is because the Middle Kingdom at times seems a mystry how they react. After reading Empress Cixi it became clear alot of their current policies is routed in the the post 1850's, well to an ignoramous sell out like me it did... At times chinese history is limited to the opium war (not even the opium wars).. Jung Chang opens its poltics and personalities up to the west....

also started reading "Den of Thieves" by James Stewart an account of insider trading in the 70's 80's the ear of Milkken, Boesky ect.

[Wahalla]

bought it last year but finally getting to it...fabulous read...Negro with a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey [Paperback

– Feb 15 2010


by Colin Grant

in the first chapter u see how little has been done...the very things written about 110 years ago still plague Kingston today as evidenced in a recent article by Sarah Manley

Did you not realise how little of Garvey is actually known to Garvey fans. ???? His auto biography is not very illuminating as autobiographies are apt to be! ..Wait till you get to the trial... and it is surprising....Garvey was his own worst enemy there... I posted some musings on it when i read it a few years back

i would rate this book as one of the two best books on Jamaican history... The other is "the fighting maroons of Jamaica"... It is up there with the Black Jackobings

[evanovitch]

“Ten Letters: The Stories Americans Tell Their President,” by Eli Saslow


As Eli Saslow reveals in “Ten Letters,” our current president practices a time-honored tradition of answering a few letters culled by aides (but in Obama’s case apparently “unvetted”) from among the thousands arriving regularly at the White House. A Washington Post reporter who’s no stranger to the president’s house, Saslow has a flair for details: He describes the relentless demands on Obama, his graying hair, his furtive cigarette breaks, the purple folders containing the messages of hope and desperation from assorted Americans which are delivered six days a week to the upstairs quarters or couriered to wherever the president might land. Some tidbits — a weary president reading aloud to his wife in bed — suggest either sterling access or exertions above and beyond the call.



Found it in the dollar store....real find indeed...worth the read

[evanovitch]

Did you not realise how little of Garvey is actually known to Garvey fans. ???? His auto biography is not very illuminating as autobiographies are apt to be! ..Wait till you get to the trial... and it is surprising....Garvey was his own worst enemy there... I posted some musings on it when i read it a few years back

i would rate this book as one of the two best books on Jamaican history... The other is "the fighting maroons of Jamaica"... It is up there with the Black Jackobings

Yes....have read both of these....Black Jacobins IS the definitive work on the Haitian Revolution nn of course Carey Robinson's book on the Maroons, which student in Jamaica of our time could NOT have read this book?

[Wahalla]

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Yes....have read both of these....Black Jacobins IS the definitive work on the Haitian Revolution nn of course Carey Robinson's book on the Maroons, which student in Jamaica of our time could NOT have read this book?

I just seen Carey Robinson updated it to "the Iron Thorn" bought a copy....

I just bought a kindle Biograph of Jefferson.....

Discovered that u can water proof pads with some plastic cases.... I took a couple on holiday with me and tested them ...now I can have a long hot soak and read my kindle app!

[Wahalla]

“Ten Letters: The Stories Americans Tell Their President,” by Eli Saslow


As Eli Saslow reveals in “Ten Letters,” our current president practices a time-honored tradition of answering a few letters culled by aides (but in Obama’s case apparently “unvetted”) from among the thousands arriving regularly at the White House. A Washington Post reporter who’s no stranger to the president’s house, Saslow has a flair for details: He describes the relentless demands on Obama, his graying hair, his furtive cigarette breaks, the purple folders containing the messages of hope and desperation from assorted Americans which are delivered six days a week to the upstairs quarters or couriered to wherever the president might land. Some tidbits — a weary president reading aloud to his wife in bed — suggest either sterling access or exertions above and beyond the call.



Found it in the dollar store....real find indeed...worth the read

Does he mention the priest who gives Barry a daily read???

It is good they mention the smoking!

[evanovitch]

Am overrun with books n have not shipped my collection from the U.S. as yet....plan to have a contractor in to see how I can put bookshelves in the garage along the walls....my pike of yet to read has taken over my room...n the others, well, help

[CeaBee]

I just read a book in which the only black person turned out to be a Jamaican voodoo priestess . There's a book 2 as well

[kia027]

Am overrun with books n have not shipped my collection from the U.S. as yet....plan to have a contractor in to see how I can put bookshelves in the garage along the walls....my pike of yet to read has taken over my room...n the others, well, help

Have you thought of creating a revolving wall of books? It may require reconfiguring a wall but that may help with the book overflow.