Reading Recommendations

“Seeing the woman as she was made them remember the envy they had stored up from other times.  So they chewed up the back parts of their minds and swallowed with relish.  They made burning statements with questions, and killing tools out of laughs.  It was mass cruelty.  A mood come alive.  Words walking without masters; walking altogether like harmony in a song.”  

“It was a weapon against her strength and if it turned out of no significance, still it was a hope that she might fall to their level some day.“           
quotes taken from:
Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

*Louise Erdrich, The Round House 

·      Mystery that takes place on a Reservation in North Dakota.  A coming of age story narrated by an Ojibwe boy. 

·      Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction

Stuart Scott & Larry Platt, Everyday I Fight

·      ESPN anchor’s dealing with his Cancer

Jennifer Tiege, Nikola Sellmair, My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Families Nazi Past

·      Autobiography

Elizabeth Alexander, The Light of the World

·      Acclaimed poet’s memoir

·      To be released April 21, 2015

Toni Morrison, God Help the Child

·      How childhood trauma impact life of an adult

·      Literature  / to be released April 22, 2015

Matthew Pearl, The Last Bookaneer

·      Publishing thieves and writers

·      Literature

Kate Bolick, Spinster: Making a Life of One’s Own

·      Non-fiction

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