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Dr. Maxine E. Thompson is the owner of Black Butterfly Press, Maxine Thompson’s Literary Services, Thompson Literary Agency and www.maxineshow.com. She hosts Internet radio shows on www.artisfirst.com and on www.maxineshow.com. She hosted on Voiceamerica.com from 3/02 to 12/06 and is currently taking a break. She is the author of nine titles,... more »
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  • member since August 13, 2007

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  • L.A. Blues
    • Rated 5 stars

    This is my first foray into crime fiction. This will be the beginning of a series about an African American female P.I. in LA.
    From the Back Cover
    Growing up in foster care, Zipporah "Z" Saldano never dreamed of becoming a police officer, but after she's rescued from a hostage situation during the L.A. Riots, she chooses a career in law enforcement.
    After ten good years on the force, Z is involved in a domestic homicide case gone awry. Her partner is killed, and Z is fired when alcohol is detected in her system. It's two long years before she gets sober and opens her own private investigation firm.
    Now Shirley, her former foster mother, is in need of Z's help. Someone has murdered her grandson, a high school basketball star, and she wants Z to find out who did it. Z soon finds herself in deeper trouble than when she was kicked out of the LAPD. What she discovers is a conspiracy much deeper than anyone would believe, and she finds her own life is in danger.

    safari61751 wrote this review Wednesday, April 13, 2011. ( reply | permalink )
  • Roots
    • Rated 0 stars

    Roots was such a groundbreaking book back in 1976, I even took a graduate class on it. We didn't have much black literature back then, and to see our traditions and rituals portrayed on the page and later on the screen, it was just life affirming.
    While my children were growing up, we would rent the different videos for each section of the story for our Thanksgiving to Christmas tradition.

    safari61751 wrote this review Sunday, January 13, 2008. ( reply | permalink )
  • To Kill a Mockingbird
    • Rated 0 stars

    As much as I hated the racist time in history depicted in the book, I've always liked To Kill a Mockingbird because Atticus Finch, the father, went against the status quo. He was not your stereotypical racist during the depression. He was a man of integrity. I also liked how Scott was a tomboy at a time when girls were taught to be ladylike. I also liked how Calpurnia, the maid, wasn't your stereotypical black maid. She would spank Scout just like she was her mother--which in a sense, she was the surrogate mother, since Scout's mother had died. I even liked Boo Radley--the outcast--for the humanity he ultimately showed in saving the children's lives at the end of the book.

    safari61751 wrote this review Saturday, September 29, 2007. ( reply | permalink )