another book to check out...

[RHOyal-Silence]

ok ladies, if u don't know by now i love to read. i am currently in the middle of a book i recently bought and i am loving it!! i am going to give u the run down of it and maybe someone else may want to pick it up also.

The Living Blood by Tananarive Due

"Jessica Jacobs-Wolde worked hard to rebuild her life in Miami after the disappearance of her husband, David, and the death of her daughter Kira at his hand. Four years later, she is still coming to terms with a shocking truth: David, who is part of an ancient group of immortals--a hidden African clan that has survived for more than a thousand years--gave Jessica and their second daughter, Fana, the gift of his healing blood.

Now Jessica is running an isolated clinic in Botswana-- one that has swiftly earned a reputation for its astounding success rate in curing desperately ill children-- and she hopes to find the tribe of souls with whom Fana truly belongs. Just three and a half years old, the girl is displaying signs of tremendous power -- conjuring storms, editing her mother's memories, and striking people down with a thought. Her growing abilities need to be tamed-- and soon.

Unaware that they are being tracked by Lucas Shepard, a doctor from Florida who hopes to save his dying son, and by a group of fortune hunter who will stop at nothing to exploit the power coursing through her veins, Jessica journeys to Ethiopia in search of the Life Brothers. There, she will be reunited with her immortal beloved. There, the full force of Fana's powers will be revealed. And there, Jessica, David, Fana, and the good doctor Shepard, though himself a mere mortal, will engage in an epic and transcontinenal battel over the ultimate fate of humanity."

[RHOyal-Silence]

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[lil_sunshine]

I'm participating in a monthly book club and the book that we'll be reading for this month is called, "nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word" by Randall Kennedy. When I first saw it in the bookstore, the title just grabbed me and I had to buy it. When I'm done reading it, I'll let you know how it was!!!

[Yemaya]

I love reading too! The last book that I read was "Red Rose: The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer". Before that it was "Makes Me Wanna Holler" by Nathan McCall....his autobiography was so awesome...(I met him too!) RHOyal-Silence are you a science fiction reader or just any book that sounds interesting? I am a Sci-Fi fan....all the creepy stuff does not bother me....I will have to get those books and try them out! -Yemaya-

[sprinklemeluv]

Originally posted by lil_sunshine
I'm participating in a monthly book club and the book that we'll be reading for this month is called, "nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word" by Randall Kennedy. When I first saw it in the bookstore, the title just grabbed me and I had to buy it. When I'm done reading it, I'll let you know how it was!!!

I saw the author on Booknotes on C-SPAN discussing the book and I was not very interested in the book because he used the word very loosely in his conversation as if it was just a part of vocabulary, not a hateful, demeaning word. That was just my observation, maybe the book educates and enlightens people of how the word continues to be a foot on African American's necks.