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MinnieEstelle reviewed Joplin's Ghost 8 days ago.
“ Tananarive Due's Joplin's Ghost is so engrossing even when I stop--because I have to--the characters stay with me. I didn't... ”
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MinnieEstelle would like to own Acheron (Dark-Hunter, Book 12).
MinnieEstelle has read The Thirteenth (Vampire Huntress Legends).
MinnieEstelle has read In The Beginning: A Vampire Series.
MinnieEstelle rated In Blood We Trust 4 months ago.
MinnieEstelle reviewed Griffin & Sabine: An Extraordinary Correspondence 4 months ago.
“ It's been many years since I've read this book. I loved the pull out letters. I can't remember all of the story, however. I... ”
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MinnieEstelle is planning to read The Death of the Past.
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Hope all is well. I am totally focused on my first book. Its completed finally. The muse said it is done. I am having a debate with my self about self publish. Any thoughts on that?
Long time. Anyway I consider my self finished just adding the final touches. How you be?
She's British, but not, strictly speaking, English. She's Welsh born with a Nigerian father and an English mother.
A very young Shirley Bassey.I haven't read too far into the book, but as it's non-fiction, there is nothing in the way of spoilers, so here's his concluding paragraph:"The old past is dying, its force weakening, and so it should. Indeed, the historian should speed it on its way, for it was compounded of bigotry, of national vanity, of class domination. It was as absurd as that narrow Christian interpretation which Gibbon rightly scorned. May history step into its shoes, help to sustain man's confidence in his destiny, and create for us a new past as true, as exact, as we can make it, that will help us achieve our identity, not as Americans or Russians, Chinese or Britons, black or white, rich or poor, but as men."Some gentle reader bothered to write in the margins of the copy I borrowed, "and women?" Duh. Essentially he calls for the practice of historiography and a more complete vision of the past through telling as many of its stories as possible. Not new to us today, but perhaps mind-altering in 1969 when all of these disciplinary changes were afoot. Elsewhere Simon Schama turned me on to this book, and he is certainly doing this kind of history in all of his works, which if you haven't checked them out you might find interesting... his televised documentaries, too.
Thanks for dropping past--and U R right--one of the purposes is for people to be able recognize behaviors that might be part of depressive episodes--interestingly, the disease sems to manifest itself differently in across ethnicities and races. For instance, among African Americans and Asians, it generally shows as anger or aggression. Even medication for the disease affects by race and ethnicity. There is now a field called ethnopharmacology that examines reaction of different ethnicites to ceratin drugs--Don
She graces the cover of The Five One's most recent album.
"Under duress" is hardly an expression desire--and that is the only state in which I would be willing to see the movie. There are too many good films to waste time on the poor.I haven't read all the Harlem Renaissance criticism and history--there's a ton of it--but since I teach a course on it, I've done my research. Of the secondary materials, I like Houston Baker's Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance and one of Amrijit Singh's books the best. Nothing, of course, beats the art itself.Good luck with your revisions.
Happy new year to you, too! Before I forget "The Octoroon Girl" is a painting by Archibald Motley, finished in 1925. Can't have you looking for a story or book that doesn't exist! My current avatar is another Motley painting from 1922, "Octoroon." I love the way he explored skin color in his paintings, illustrating the constructedness of race.Twilight was. . . well, you can read my reviews of Meyer's first two books in the series. If you look at my reviews (under "More" just below the profile on my page, as it takes far too much time to find any one review on the actual books' pages, since there are so many), you'll see what I thought. Suffice to say, I will not be reading the third and fourth books. They are definitely geared towards young girl readers, and what an awful message they send to impressionable minds! I will only watch the movie under duress. LOLHow are your book's revisions coming along?
Right era, wrong color. It's Archibald Motley's "The Octoroon Girl" (1925), which apparently graces the cover of one edition of Nella Larsen's novel, Passing. I like Motley's later stuff, but they are too hard to squeeze into the tiny avatar box. What are you reading these days?
Wow that is an amazing review thank you so much
Hee hee--I clearly state on my profile I'm not going to be your Friend just so you can promote your book--plus, the whole premise of his book disturbs me--it isn't something I would pick up anyway!Anyway, good luck with your writing! I hope it is successful!
lLOVED your book!!!! Posted reviews on goodreads, amazon and here - hope you are enjoying "A Liar's Tale."
I have the same problem with Mr. HIV (creepy guy) that you do--why does he persist??(I saw your note on his page when I was leaving a similar one)Have a great day!Kiki
I love it also, but like someone said once, "Find what you love and find a way to make a living at it and you never work a day in your life."Thanks for adding me. How is everything with you??
I turned it down because I would have been a little fish in a big pond. In other words, I would still be forced to do the publicity and the marketing, but not receive the bulkof the fruit of my labor. I have legitimized my company by publishing another authors work, so now Razor7 is not just self-publishing. Also, through sheer hustle, marketing, contacts, book signings and hard work that no mainstream press would put in my book, I have sold three times more than the advance I was offered.
I just clicked over to leave a note for you, and I see one you wrote to me that never appeared on my page! What gives with Shelfari these days? Anyway, I couldn't agree with you less about "The Dark Knight"--I quite liked it. To each her own. I am gnawing on the idea of beginning a group about the Harlem Renaissance. Would you be interested?
Rambling...waiting for a book.Surfing the NY Times Books Updates and found this. it may or may not be of interest.The Long and the ShortBy David KellyAfter enduring the latest Batman movie, I was reminded of an entry from one of Ned Rorem’s delightful diaries:Finished “Anna Karenina” finally. Marvelous and all-encompassing, though less marvelous and less all-encompassing (can something be less all-encompassing?) than Proust, and too long, like Mahler’s Ninth. Both Tolstoy and Mahler say little in their leisurely span that can’t be said more tersely — although terser they wouldn’t be Mahler and Tolstoy. Everything’s too long. Webern is too long. This paragraph is too long. Needless to say, we have to distinguish between too-long-and-brilliant (“Paradise Lost,” “War and Peace”) and too-long-and-stupid (“The Dark Knight,” “In-a-Gadda-da-Vida”). It’s easy to name classic works of literature that overstay their welcome. The seven volumes of “Clarissa” are, for some of us, about six and a half too many. As for “Moby-Dick,” zillions have wished it shorter. And even the most ardent Joycean wouldn’t claim that every word between “riverrun” and “the” is absolutely essential.But are there good or great novels you think could have been longer, or should have been longer? That’s not so easy. One colleague voted for “Atonement.” Another editor here said, “When I finished ‘Middlemarch,’ I was sorry it was over.” A friend who teaches English at Rutgers had a bunch of suggestions: “Great Expectations,” “Goodbye, Columbus,” “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,” “When We Were Orphans,” Endo’s “Deep River” and “Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress” (“It easily could have been twice as long”). Another friend — not an editor and not a professor; i.e., a normal person — immediately nominated “Kaaterskill Falls.”I’d come up with some nominees myself, but this post is already too long.
Lovely Lena!
You are spot on. I read therefore I am. Puts a new Shelfari-spin on Decartes's "Je pense donc je suis". Reading anything good? I'm heading on down the road of the Harlem Renaissance with my students this semester, which will be great fun!
