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I also think White Teeth and On Beauty were great, but I haven't read The Autograph Man. It usually gets less than rave reviews. Why?
Welcome back! How many art directors do you have? My students want to work in New York. Jeez, I do too. But I guess I'll settle for Seattle's crummy baseball team and rain and clouds and a crummy basketball team, since I'm used to it. How close are you to say, Cooper Union?
Hi, just browsing your shelf :). Hope you had a good christmas.
I have to say that I love your name. I feel the same way. I definitely thought I was the only black person that read Douglas Adams.
Hello, my name is Janaya Black and I would like to invite you to check out my new book "As Told By the Other Woman"! It is a real page turner and I think you will enjoy it! Thank you in advance for considering my book for your reading collection! Please visit my website at www.black-smithenterprises.com
hey let me give you an idea. as a copy writer you got a job from an african government for an image laundering in the uk. and know what you were bribed to give the credit to some one else. good story line, dont you think so.ben
Hey there, just visiting and browsing your shelf.
Got some good accounts? Big agency? Mad Ave? Can you pretend to be working on the prostate account and get your novel written?
Nerds unite! As a former art director I sometimes have to apologize for the ad business, even to my family, but it's really a lot of fun. You can go out to lunch and have two drinks at once! Nice shelf.
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Ah, thanks for the heads-up. I'll pick up The Intuitionist first, then.
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Picked up my first Colson Whitehead today, Apex Hides the Hurt. No idea if this is the best place to meet him, but after your glowing comments, I can't wait to read him.
Yes--I don't know how Mosley does it. I'm insanely jealous of YOU--doing a screenplay!!I've always harbored a secret desire to write a screenplay. I had a friend who was writing one a few years back (he had "contacts") and he said that movie makers were desperate for good scripts--I imagine (from the current state of Hollywood output--bleh) that the situation is still the same. So maybe you're going to be rich! Rich! Rich!
With you "just wish he published more frequently" as a recommendation, I think I will check out some of Whitehead's work. I remember reading about him years ago and planning on picking his first novel up. Time passed and all that. Then, when browsing your shelf I noticed several things that looked interesting, him among them. Thanks for the note.
Hi! I like your profile--says a lot about who you are. Also think you have an interesting shelf, not just the books you find on the front table at Borders. And don't you just love Walter Mosley!! Well, Easy is the one we really love :-)
Almost forgot...if you're on the YA kick...check out Meg Cabot. She's not fantasy, but the woman can write an authentic teenage girl voice like no other. The protaganist in American Girl and Ready or Not, Samantha Madison, is like a typical smart, insecure train wreck who says all the wrong things at all the wrong times and is always going left when everyone else is going right. I can not remember such a pleasurable light read from the realm of pop fiction in a long time. I hope they turn the two books into a movie b/c I will be like the Harry Potter people who sleep out in front of the movie theater and show up in costume...the whole nine yards!
Surprisingly, I am WILLINGLY reading non-fiction. One of the Obama books: Dreams from My Father. It's a pretty good read...at times turns too much into "tragic mulatto" but he is recounting his early adulthood years...so I guess it is to be expected. I do kind of wish I had started Audacity of Hope first, though. I am not feeling inspired by Dreams From My Father and the main reason why I wanted to read one of the Obama books was to feel like voting was actually worth all the effort.
You have a great shelf--lots of things I've been meaning to read. What do you think about Colson Whitehead?cheers,afton
Hi happy. Yes, The Dew Breaker was a great book! Made me wanna go back and re-read her other works. I just picked up Breath Eyes, Memory and Krik Krak and am just as excited a I was the first time I read them. How did you like The Salt Eaters by Toni Cade Bambara? I just couldn't get into it the first time around and am gonna give it another go.