My blog: Macaroni and Cheese: Reflections on Life - http://msjboogie.wordpress.com Currently Reading: Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Books Read in 2010 Perfect Peace by Daniel Black - 5 million stars!!!!!!!!!
The Little Black Book of Success: Laws of Leadership for Black Women by Elaine Meryl Brown, Marsha Haygood, & Rhonda Joy McLean - 5 stars
The Blacker The Berry by Wallace Thurman - 5 stars
Baby Proof by Emily Giffen - 4 stars
Jemima J by Jane Green - 5 stars
Recent Purchases Perfect Peace - Daniel Black (The story is just so fantastic, sick and heartbreaking; and the author did one heck of a job reading the first chapter aloud. I couldn't resist. It touches on a novel topic in contemporary literature, particularly Black literature.)
Conversate Is Not a Word: Getting Away from Ghetto - Jam Donaldson (People, we've got to do better)
Why I Love Black Women - Michael Eric Dyson (At least someone loves us, so why not support a brutha)
Best African American Essays: 2009 - edited by Gerald Early (Lately, I've been in the mood for some good essays)
Best African American Essays: 2010 - edited by Gerald Early (Ditto)
My Lobotomy: A Memoir - Howard Dully & Charles Fleming (Heartbreaking story, but still one of triumph)
Lonely: A Memoir - Emily White (Boy, have I been there)
I Used To Know That: Stuff You Forgot From School - Caroline Taggart (I'd say I've forgotten everything, but I don't remember enough to know whether that's true)
Game Change - John Heilemann & Mark Halpern (There is nothing like some good, old fashioned political gossip about the circus that was the presidential election; oh yea, and I guess it's educational too)
The Little Black Book of Success: Laws of Leadership for Black Women - Elaine Meryl Brown, Marsha Haygood, & Rhonda Joy McLean - I need some words of wisdom before I have to flip my wig. Life is a game, so you may as well learn the rules and get jiggy with it. 3 mentors in one book.
Books Read in 2009 Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison - 4 stars
A Day Late and a Dollar Short by Terry McMillan - 5 stars
In Search of Satisfaction by J. California Cooper - 5 stars
Douglass' Women by Jewell Parker Rhodes - 5 stars
Life Is Short But Wide by J. California Cooper - 5 stars
Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime by J. California Cooper - 5 stars - Every woman should read this book!
The Sunday Wife by Cassandra King - 3.5 / 4 stars
Voodoo Dreams: A Novel of Marie Laveau by Jewell Parker Rhodes - 5 stars
Turning White: A Memoir of Change by Lee Thomas - 5 stars
Kindred by Octavia Butler - 4 stars
The Living Blood by Tananarive Due - 5 Stars
Sundays At Tiffany's by James Patterson - 5 stars
My Soul To Keep by Tananarive Due - 5 Stars
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