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alexia4ever02

alexia4ever02

I love to read. It is something that I have been enjoying since I was in early elementary school. I mostly only read books by African Americans. There are way more books that I have read besides the ones on my shelf. I just can't remember some of the names. I can truly say that I am addicted to reading. I don't really watch tv because I'll... more »
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  • poetnathan

    poetnathan says

    Lets Make Merry....

    "Better your anger and fears flow like ink from a pen onto the page, or paint onto a canvas, than blood on the sidewalk. Better your blows strike the faces of drums or cords of melody, than the faces and backs of women and children!"

    - Nathan M. Richardson, Poet & Author
    www.scpublishing.com

    posted yesterday. ( send a note )
  • Shedey

    Shedey says

    Hey girl,how are you? I noticed you read The Dopeman's Wife.How did you like it,I loved it.And Prada Plan was good also.

    posted 13 days ago. ( send a note )
  • A. Michaelson

    A. Michaelson says

    Hi, Alexia. I’m the author of The Sandal Maker, a new novel about the public ministry of Jesus from a unique point of view. A story that will take you on a fascinating journey in first century Galilee. I’m including here the publisher's notes from Amazon.com. Let me know what you think. The honor would be mine.


    Book Description
    Caleb, an elderly Jew, leaves the safety of his home in Cana on a mission to find a man he believes is in Jerusalem. Miriam, Caleb’s only remaining child, accompanies him disguised as a boy. In the desolation of the war struck Galilean countryside, father and daughter risk their lives to journey south on the Jordan River trail. As they walk, Caleb intrigues Miriam with a captivating story of his youth that will change her future destiny. A story of a time forty years prior when he became a sandal maker in order to observe a man some called the Miracle Worker. Caleb secretly kept notes of the events he saw and heard as he followed the crowds. With his objective, skeptical point of view, he reveals the fascinating ministry of the one he called the “Master.” Heart pounding perils and the threat of death endanger the two travelers, but nothing could foretell the fate awaiting them in Jerusalem!

    From the Publisher
    A. Michaelson's new novel, The Sandal Maker, takes the reader on a fascinating journey back to the year 70 A.D. in worn torn Palestine. The author creatively weaves two stories together, one in the present, the other in the past. Heartwarming, enlightening and tragic, The Sandal Maker paints a portrait of one man's life and his involvement in how the gospel came to be.

    posted 1 month ago. ( send a note )

  • "Mz. Cool" Author of "CHUBBY": The Hydraulics of a Neurotic says

    CHUBBY" is urban fiction, drama, suspense, humor, ghetto, cheating, families in crisis, mystery, horror, love & sex, a could not put down, a must read and brand new. You won't be disapointed! You'll love it! Get ready to laugh, cry, empathize, anticipate and experience the hydraulics!

    Change didn't come when her father tried to open her ryes to the wrong choices she would make or when a Madame became her mentor. Or when she married the preacher's son. Not even when she became a crack addict and her girlfriend became the "snake" who CHUBBY thought was the denominator in the death of her child. Change didn't come when she was pilfered for every dime she had or when she tried to commit suicide almost rendering her insane. No, change didn't come to better CHUBBY's life until she came face-to-face with the unspeakable. Not until then was she forced to take a look at her past. Yes, this rude awakening would be the beginning of her sanity and eventually the overall sweet smell of revenge and an entire newfound life.

    "CHUBBY" is the gritty soul depiction of the reclamation of an addict's dignity. One can't help but to share her agony and think that she somehow manages to escape from the clutches of her twisted life in the streets of St. Louis.
    www.myspace.com/charonhall read part of chap. 1
    www.amazon.com read pages

    posted 2 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Nikki76

    Nikki76 says

    Playing Dirty was good. I can't wait to read the sequel.

    posted 3 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Nikki76

    Nikki76 says

    Playing Dirty was good. I can't wait to read the sequel.

    posted 3 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Nikki76

    Nikki76 says

    Playing Dirty was good. I can't wait to read the sequel.

    posted 3 months ago. ( send a note )

  • "Mz. Cool" Author of "CHUBBY": The Hydraulics of a Neurotic says

    Thank you!

    posted 3 months ago. ( send a note )
  • tjt88

    tjt88 says

    Thanks for the friend add!!!

    posted 3 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Darling-Diva

    Darling-Diva says

    Make sure you read Shyt List and Shyt List II..(by Reign) They are the best if not one of the best urban fiction books I have read in a long time.

    posted 3 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Jaree F

    Jaree F says

    Yes, we meet again. There's no coincidences. ;) I just wanted to let you know that my urban fiction novella "There's No Tomorrow, Only Today" is available at http://metracity.wordpress.com/2009/07/31/theres-no-tomorrow-only-today/ for FREE. It's hard hitting urban fiction with twists and turns and a passionate plot. Please find out why 'There's No Tomorrow, Only Today."

    -Jaree Francis

    posted 3 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Debra Phillips

    Debra Phillips says

    Just to let you know that my new Urban book has dropped: The title is: Love Trumps Game by d.y. phillips. To check out an excerpt, please visit my web site at: www.debraphillips.homestead.com. You don't want to miss this roller coaster of a story!

    posted 4 months ago. ( send a note )
  • America King

    America King says

    The Author of this book America King(alias Kevin Lee)is historically one of most important people of this century. With heritage that include Mohamed Ali, Coretta Scott King, Supreme and more . Being the first man reincarnated makes America unique if not iconic figure in american society .The last reining King (King George) of the 19th and 20th century . With the King reaching acurate age
    he steps back in family business . His love is music playing a behind the scenes role as ghost writer for many years . Now helping the future take Hip Hop to the next .... with a chapter included for everyone in the entertainment industry .
    So remember "The Children are the future and the future is bright"

    http://hiphopthelastreligion.com
    Buy online at Amazon.com OR LULU.COM

    posted 4 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Mz. HerShee .

    Mz. HerShee . says

    My deepest apology for the Supa late response .....

    posted 6 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Linda Y

    Linda Y says

    Hi Alexia, I see that you read Pain Freak. I was seriously turned off by the cover (put all that a** on a video). Was it any good?

    posted 6 months ago. ( send a note )
  • CHLOE Y

    CHLOE Y says

    Hi I was looking at your shelf and I see you read "Let that be the Reasn" how was it?

    posted 7 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Tony Carmine

    Tony Carmine says

    Here is a blurb about my new book—ON THE CREST. Comments welcome: Tige Anderson goes through a series of emotional, physical and psychological adventures in this coming-of-age roller coaster, balancing his life among his romantic trysts, his ambitions, his humanity and his gay best friend. The one thread that connects all of the people in his life is the fact that the cycle of life puts everyone through a series of ups (‘on the crest’) and downs. Whether an individual winds up on top of the wave or under it depends on them.

    Prologue:

    [A mind full of shadows which form long, dark points that pierce the heart through and bring to consciousness the fierce pain of reality. Hooded specters that travel through space and time gathering up pieces of memory and bringing them together to form one melted block of pain and pleasure called the past.

    Were it possible to disintegrate as happens to dreams and tender moments. As powerful as these dreams and tender moments seemed at their inception, we come to realize that they are made of invisible particles of nothingness. Were it possible to just vanish like hopes made of tiny particles of nothing so would I be free of reality. And in that vanishing, would I finally be able to find peace.]

    Those thoughts flooded Tige’s mind as he sat and watched the pointed shadows caused by the brand-new-morning sun crawl across the floor in front of him. He had been all alone in the solarium since the middle of the night awaiting the sunrise as he did on many nights since he was put into that place. It was his favorite time of day. Anymore, each minute of the day was filled with painful recollection and doubt except for this brief, fleeting moment. It was a time, it seemed, that the earth, like him, was confused. It brought him solace to think that at this very moment, the entire universe, or so it seemed, was in a state of doubt and he was not alone. It was the time when day was pushing back night, eliminating the last vestiges of darkness to assume domination and live out its brief lifetime before dying and willing its realm to its brother called ‘tomorrow’. It was a time of starting over, of another chance. Days rolled in one after the other like the waves at the beach. It made one think that no matter how tragic the events that occurred in one solar period, there was always another; there was always another wave.

    Tige sat in his robe and pajamas on one of the couches in the solarium watching the morning sun get stronger, watching the streams of light come through the bars on the windows, hoping that the attendant would not yet realize that he was not in his room, which was where he should have been until breakfast which was still two hours away. He had done this so many times in the past but he was never discouraged from continuing to enjoy his moment of peace, but rather would endure the lectures from the staff about how everyone there must obey the rules so that all there could accomplish what they came there for.

    The reward that he got from this solitude was worth any reprimand which may have followed from the staff. He knew that his time remaining there was brief and he could continue this practice somewhere else. This was his time to savor the self-induced, companion-until-death torment brought about by events which had happened before and could not be changed. This was his time to not only enjoy the companionship of hope for tomorrow, but also to flog himself with memories and guilt for things that he had been instrumental in bringing to existence. He had to torture himself for what he had done or for what he had not done. With an almost painful enjoyment, Tige watched the single line of gray smoke from his cigarette and recalled the days past. He watched the ashes fall off like expended days gone by. He watched the orange line of fire racing toward its end.

    Again, comments welcome.
    The book can be purchased at barnesandnoble.com, amazon.com, authorhouse.com and many more sites. Thank you. Tony Carmine.

    posted 7 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Mohammad R

    Mohammad R says

    http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=5&article_id=99054



    The US is no longer a global hegemon
    By Leon T. Hadar
    Commentary by
    Tuesday, February 03, 2009



    Changes in the status and power of nations, just like changes in economic conditions, are not always immediately apparent. There is, in the jargon of economics, a recognition lag between the time when an economic shock, such as a sudden boom or bust, occurs and the time when it is recognized by economists, central bankers and the government.

    Recognition lag explains why, for example, economists have only recently acknowledged the current economic recession - several months after it began. And recognition lag might well be why officials and pundits are now failing to recognize the detrimental impact of the combination of the Iraq war and the financial crisis on America's standing in the international system.

    Some attribute Washington's current difficulties in dictating global developments to the Bush administration's mismanagement of US diplomacy and national security policy. The conventional wisdom is that a more visionary and competent Obama administration will be able to reassert America's global leadership role - especially in the Middle East.

    According to that logic, a charismatic and cosmopolitan President Barack Obama, by re-energizing the United States' diplomatic influence and emphasizing Washington's commitment to play the role of an honest broker, will revive the dormant Israeli-Palestinian peace process, overcome the many obstacles to a political settlement, and help bring peace to the Holy Land. (Some pundits seem to assume a similar peacemaking model can be implemented in other troubled regions as well, such as South Asia and the Caucasus.) All that is lacking, supposedly, is enlightened leadership and American willpower.

    Such assumptions about US omnipotence are woefully out of touch with reality. The mess the Bush administration made in the Middle East, where US military power was overstretched to the maximum, coupled with the dramatic loss of American financial resources, has produced a long-term transformation in the balance of power in the region and worldwide. The confluence of these negative factors has significantly eroded Washington's diplomatic and political clout. The increasing wariness of the American public regarding new US military interventions, as a consequence of the Iraq war, will reinforce this trend.

    This is not the first time there has been a lag between when an international crisis, such as a military conflict or a loss of geostrategic standing, takes place and the time when officials, pundits and the public recognize its effect on the global balance of power. In the aftermath of World War II, which devastated the military and economic power of Britain and France, the two leading imperial powers, officials and journalists continued to refer to those two declining nation-states as Great Powers. It was not until the late 1950s that the diminished status of Great Britain and France was widely recognized and the adjective "great" was finally dropped when the two countries were mentioned.

    That the US has already been losing some of its leverage has been demonstrated by Washington's failure to contain the rising power of Iran and Tehran's growing influence through surrogates in Iraq, Lebanon, and the Palestinian territories. Notwithstanding strong opposition from Washington, Israel decided to open negotiations with Syria, while Hizbullah was once again invited to join the government in Lebanon.

    While the US does not now occupy the same kind of drastically weakened geopolitical position that Britain and France did after World War II, we must recognize that it is no longer a global hegemon, as it was during the first decade or so after the end of the Cold War. Even the most visionary and competent US president will be that much more constrained in his ability to "do something" when an international crisis takes place.

    In 2000, the United States was at the apex of international power in a unipolar world, and the Israelis and the Palestinians were led by strong and more moderate leaderships than today. Even at that time, Washington could not significantly advance an Israeli-Palestinian peace process. There is little reason to expect that Obama will be an exception, and an effective Holy Land peacemaker, in 2009. With an overstretched military and an economy in recession, the incoming president, like others in Washington, will be forced to recognize that reality sooner or later.

    Leon T. Hadar is a research fellow in foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute in Washington. He wrote this commentary for THE DAILY STAR.

    posted 9 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Deatri King-Bey

    Deatri King-Bey says

    Hello,

    Dee here from your Black Romance Book Club.
    http://www.shelfari.com/groups/12038/about

    One of our very own has a new book out.
    Let's Read When Love Comes Around by Victoria Wells!

    You know how we do. We take a few months to read the selection, so we'll start discussion on April 3,2009.

    You are cordially invited to attend the 15 year anniversary of the Romance Slam Jam conference. This is the only conference that celebrates readers and authors of Black romance. For full details, view the website at: http://www.romanceslamjam.org/Conference/Newsletter/Articles/RSJCruise2010.htm

    Spread the word.

    Happy Reading
    Deatri King-Bey

    posted 9 months ago. ( send a note )
  • DeBerryandGrant

    DeBerryandGrant says

    Thanks for accepting our friendship and joining us on Shelfari! In case you're interested, there is DeBerry & Grant group here and in addition to keeping up with us on Shelfari and on our website, we blog regularly (Chapter 1 and an audio excerpt of What Doesn't Kill You are on the blog now) and are also on Myspace, Facebook and Twitter--all of which is very nearly another full time job! We even have YouTube videos and will be making another one next week in the new Simon & Schuster studio! Please visit our Tours page on the website and come out and see us if we're coming to your city with the new book.
    Again, thanks for supporting our work & have great 2009!

    http://deberryandgrant.com
    http://twomindsfull.blogspot.com
    myspace.com/twomindsfull
    facebook.com
    twitter.com/deberryandgrant
    http://youtube.com/watch?v=W7zB01MdqEE
    http://youtube.com/watch?v=BCsO-OpsMAo

    posted 10 months ago. ( send a note )


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