What book are you reading now - Page 4

LadyDay · (#76 (**permalink**))

african_princess83 wrote:

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I'm reading Toni Morrison's Paradise at the moment, and flipping through the pages of Deepak Chopra's Seven Spiritual Laws of Success

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i have had paradise for a while and have yet to read it. but i must do so soon

JONHNCROW234 · (#77 (**permalink**))

I,ve started two at the same time to see which is more interesting....I was reading the altman code...and the Davinche code bothby Dan Brown, the Davinche is far more interesting so I have descided to give the Altman a break until I finish Davinchi.

Kibibi · (#78 (**permalink**))

Just finished Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and nowI am readingThe Fat Lady Sings by Jacqueline Roy

God dont like ugly is a good book and so is its sequel-God still dont like ugly-I actually bought them because soofresh recommended them so thanks for that SF niceone.gif

urban_beauty · (#79 (**permalink**))

I'm reading Beloved by Toni Morrison after watching the movie (starring Oprah Wimfrey). It's deep.

notebook · (#80 (**permalink**))

I am reading the book title'' On The Up And Up'' by Brends Stone Browder. A survival guide for women. living with men on the Down Low.

Bantu · (#81 (**permalink**))

"Black Athena by Martin Bernal

The Watcher · (#82 (**permalink**))

The Tiger of Ch'in.... how China became a nation..

Leonard Cottrell

This book charts the ancient history of China, and mainly about the first emporerShih Huang-Tiwho with the aid of his great councillorLi Ssuunited the whole of China which was previously a land of divided rival feudal states constantly at war with each other and the huns. How the Chinese peoples developed from ancient nomadic tribes, to nations through agricultural and political development in the background section is in itself very interesting.

How they together, burned the ancient wisdom of the learned before them and set about creating new history. How they standardised the country and built the great wall and the language. Talks about all the previous arguments popular in the east about "how should man be governed" and showed with examples, the successes and failures of preceeding reigemes. The downfall of Ch'in and the rise of the Han was also a good illustration of this, the writer does a good job of explaining all this here.

Though Im not new to the subject myself, I think those who are would find it a good read. Quite balanced on the figures, not to praiseworthy or cynical either...

Written in the 60s and suffers from the prejudice of it's age but when reading old books you get used to that and read between the lines. Lot's of useful info inside. Though it is a factual book, it reads like a narrative. He starts by telling us of as assasination attempt by a man called Ching-Ko on the young Shih Huang-Ti who was then under another name and only a king of one of the small feudal states... the assasination attempt failed. From then the story gets going.

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Allaccess · (#83 (**permalink**))

Got your Back By Frank Alexander

angel-i- · (#84 (**permalink**))

Just finished reading The Celestine Prophecy...Excellent, finished it in a day! Also reading A Short History of Everything by Bill Bry(s)on, pretty good read, but you have to be in a certain frame of mind to absorb it and it looonnng!... Currently reading Stupid White Men by Michael Moore...I know, im late....been waiting for my slow arse sister to read it and give it me..!

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The Watcher · (#85 (**permalink**))

Decolonisning the African mind by Chinweizu

Only finished the first chapter so far. Seems promising. Will give a review when finished....

Imo · (#86 (**permalink**))

I am currently reading Children of the Matrix by David Icke. I think allblack people should take the time to read this, if only to disagree with it. It offers a challenging alternative view of the worldwe are living in today, and suggests it is time to wake up.

Humanity'sfuture and destiny is being shaped, controlled and manipulated by a hidden elite of "questionable" origins,motivesand integrity. See whether you agree or whether there is any thing in this highly detailed argument.

dimoke · (#87 (**permalink**))

Animal Farm by George Orwell......too funny and uncanny, but very much Orwell stuff as usualniceone.gif

ChubbiChix · (#88 (**permalink**))

I'm currently reading but im almost finished "the confessions of Nat Turner" by William Styron and its a good book but I dont know what to think about some of the things the book says. For one, they are saying that Nat Turner had homosexual experiences with a fellow slave and a ex-white overseer and that Nat Turner was obsessed with sexing white women but prayed to god to get the thoughts out of his head.It also says that Nat was raised as a house negro and was taught by his mother to hate the dirty negros in the field that were beneath them but his master sold him and he was no longer a house negro and became a field hand and is why he couldnt take it anymore and wanted to kill all white people because his ex-master promise to free him instead tricked him and sold him. I don't know if any of this is true. The book is old as hell like 1950's and the author says he got his information from the journals Nat kept since he could read and write. Despite the gay stuff it was a good book but I don't know what to believe now.