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    Black Authors

    in Book Search and Reading Recommendations

    Posted · Edited by Kylie

    I wouldn't even know whether a lot of my authors were black or white. :D I had the brilliant idea of checking the gallery of my LibraryThing account, where you can see photos of all the authors in your collection. Here's what I've come up with:

     

    Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart (classic African novel)

    Malorie Blackman: Noughts & Crosses (young adult dystopian series)

    ER Braithwaite: To Sir, With Love (one of my favourite movies!)

    Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man

    Arundhati Roy: The God of Small Things

     

    And I don't have any by this author, but I've heard good things about her books:

     

    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Purple Hibiscus, Half of a Yellow Sun

     

    I hope this helps!

     

    ETA: in light of Frankie's comments, I should probably point out that all of the books I've mentioned are on my TBR pile, so I can't actually account for levels of sex in any of them. I'm sure the Blackman books would be fine, as they're young adult, and To Sir, With Love would be fine, but I don't know enough about the others to safely vouch for them.

    What really bugs you?

    in General Chat

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    People in the street or shops having no spacial awareness or consideration for others i.e walking slowly and blocking the entire pathway, people in front of you stopping suddenly, bumping into you and not apologising.

     

    Ooh, all of these are among my pet hates. And people who walk straight out of a shop and straight into your path without looking as they leave the shop. And this is when I'm a couple of metres away from the shop front. It's even worse when they come out and just stop right in front of you. Go with the flow people! Or move to the side, out of everyone's way, if you need to decide where you're going next.

    Jasper Fforde

    in Horror / Fantasy / SF

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    Don't feel too bad for the Decca Executive, after he was fired he wrote a book aptly called The Man Who Gave The Beatles Away and it's been feeding him ever since :irked:!

    I've said before that I'm actually afraid of reading Great Expectations now, as I'm afraid Dickens's Miss Havisham might not live up to Fforde's... how much of a compliment is that?!

     

    Dickens' Miss Havisham is still very forceful, but in a completely different way. To be honest, I had a small problem with Fforde's Miss Havisham. Actually I find it hard to reconcile his version of any of the literary characters with the originals. But I think that's the only problem I have with Fforde.

     

    Don't feel too bad for the Decca Executive, after he was fired he wrote a book aptly called The Man Who Gave The Beatles Away and it's been feeding him ever since :D!
    Oh I wouldn't dream of knowing anyone who's actually read the book

     

    Well, that's something you'll never have to say again, Frankie, because I own the book and I've read it. :( I bought it secondhand, and it wasn't too bad, as I recall. I have a tendency to buy most things written by The Beatles 'inner circle' rather than bios written by people who had nothing to do with them and are just rehashing everybody else's stories.

    The last DVD you watched? (Cont..)

    in Music / TV / Films

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    I saw WALL-E last night. Very cute.

     

    And while we were in the video shop picking it up, I heard my ex mumbling movie names and heard something about Arsenic and Old Lace. They had a copy for sale (cheap!) and I've been wanting it badly for such a long time. I couldn't believe he found it just like that! I was very happy. :irked:

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