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Summer Reading Part 1

27th July 2010 by Deborah No Comments

I haven’t posted much on books lately.  That doesn’t mean I am not reading!  Over the last several weeks I have read all kind of books on different topics.  Below I have shared what I have recently read AND I list a few of the titles in my stack for summer reading. Nnedi Okorafor I [...]

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Progress. . . . Part 1 Reading Challenge

22nd March 2010 by Deborah 2 Comments

Lots of fun things happening around here. I am sooooo looking forward to spring.  It has been a long hard winter. I feel guilty complaining since I currently live in Atlanta. Still, it snowed here three times! YUCK. The cherry blossoms and daffodils are finally bloomind and I am already sneezing.  Still spring is just [...]

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Butterfly Burning and Library Loot

30th January 2010 by Deborah No Comments

This novel is poetry in prose.  I mean the language, THE LANGUAGE is really beautiful.  For me the book reads like a fable.  I hear the voice of the narrator actually reading to me.  This is the first book I have read by Yvonne Vera.  I was not aware of her work but I am [...]

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African Diaspora Challenge Read: Helen Oyeyemi, The Opposite House

15th January 2010 by Deborah 2 Comments

Well, I have finished my first read of 2010 for the African Diaspora reading challenge.  I read Helen Oyeyemi’s The Opposite House. I have to admit I didn’t love this book. I didn’t hate it, but I didn’t love it either.  I felt like I never got into the interior lives of the characters in [...]

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2009 Wins and What Inspired me this Year

31st December 2009 by Deborah No Comments

For the last three years I have made a point of stopping to celebrate my accomplishments or wins for the year.  I got the idea from Alyson Stansfield who writes the Art Biz blog.  As Alyson points out There will always be more to do–more than you have time for. Instead of thinking about what [...]

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Reading Challenge!

26th December 2009 by Deborah No Comments

So reading challenges are new for me but I found this site while surfing the web for books to add to my vacation reading list and I could not resist joining the African Diaspora Reading Challenge.  In the last three days I have caught up with all of my magazine reading (American Craft, FibreArts, Studios [...]

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Library Loot: My Holiday Reading Stack

21st December 2009 by Deborah No Comments

Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Eva and Marg that encourages bloggers to share the books they’ve checked out from the library. Last week was quite a treat for me as several of the books I had on hold at the library came in.  Have I mentioned how much I love my public [...]

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Library Loot: October 22

23rd October 2009 by Deborah No Comments

So I decided to join in the fun and participate in Library Loot.  Library Loot is the brainchild of Eva and Marg.  Basically their plan is to encourage bloggers to share the books they’ve checked out of the library.  What fun! So here is my loot for the week.  I picked up a stack of [...]

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