Is there a book thread on here?

[re'up]

I can list what I have read this year:

No Visible Bruises (non fiction about domestic violence) B

Night Boat ToTangier (fiction about burned out gangsters in a ferry terminal in Spain) B+

Lot (short stories about Houston, author is black/gay, many stories centered on that dynamic) A-

Boys And Sex (non fiction about the socialization of boys and sexuality) B

Uncanny Valley (memoir about a women who went to Silicon Valley to work for a start up) A

Sexual Citizens (Columbia University academic non fiction about sex and college, and in general) B+

Waiting To Exhale (Terry McMillan best seller, 1995 movie adapted from) B+

What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker (essays/.memoir from Damon Young of VSB/The Root) A-

Strung Out (memoir about woman who gew up in Beverley Hills in the 80's, became heroin addict) A-

Yellow Bird (non fiction about a murder on a reservation in North Dakota) B

Saint X (fiction about a murder of a white woman on a Caribbean island, and the racial politics plus aftermath of tragedy) B+

 

[dtownreppin214]

Aite now you're going to have to tell us your speed reading technique. I need to improve in that department.

 

[re'up]

I have always been a speed reader. I could do it in fourth grade. it's as natural to me as some people who can do advanced algebra, or exponents, and I can barely do anything beyond basic multiplications. I read about 40 books a year average, so I am probably on track for a similar amount this year. You have to love reading, or be getting paid a lot to read that much, I love reading. Once you get into reading the latest books, and discovering old ones, it's a constant habit.

 

[Karume]