just finished Marie-Elena John's Unburnable. Very good book.

Read a few books at once but have just started;

14 lessons in yogi philosophy

By Ramacha Raka

I'm reading Chasing Destiny by Eric Jerome Dickley. Not the best book in the world but it involves a female heroine of 'African-American' and Japanese descent who rides motorbikes, which I love. Planning on getting myself a motorbike.

I'm reading Understanding Power by Noam Chomsky. I'm reading it for the second time after 3 years. I think i'm taking a lot more from it now then i did 3 years ago.

Just finished these



Very good



This was alright. Abit slow and only gets good when the main character goes to jamaica.

Re-reading this



Bought this today



And ordered this

Halfway through this autobiography, And the walls came tumbling down...by Ralph Abernathy..

Started off very slow but just started to get going a bit. Hoping to find out certain details about the civil rights era from an informed perspective.

"When this first came out around 1990, stupid rumors abounded that Dr.King's right-hand-man and surrogate brother had written a sleazy text about Dr. King's sex life. This bunch of hogwash and the cruel responses by people who beleived the hype drove Dr. Abernathy to his grave! This is actually a very good book filled with interesting anecdotes about Dr. Abernathy's years as a soldier in the Civil Rights movement. However, he pulls no punches regarding the infighting that destroyed what was left of the movement after Dr. King's death. This is an important historical memoir by one who was certainly there."

The only books I'm reading now are the books that I'm writing.

'BROTHER I'M DYING by award winning Haitian author Edwidge Danticat. It's about the two men closest to her heart;her father Mira and his older brother Joseph. It looks at the effects of migration and leaving those behind in Haiti as the political situation deterioates in 2004. It is also a story that made headline news worldwide when her 81 year old uncle, fleeing from the brutality of Haiti is imprisoned and dead within days of arriving in the U.S.A.
It is compelling reading.

bought these today



a book about caribbean radicals in the us written by winston james



a short story collection of mostly jamaican writers edited by colin channer

Preston L Allen - All or Nothing

A novel about gambling. So far so good.

Manufacturing Powerlessness in the Black Diaspora: Inner City Youth and the New Global Frontier

By Charles Green, (Hunter College)

AltaMira Press
£23.99 €37.78 Paper 0-7425-0269-4 / 978-0-7425-0269-7 February 2001 224pp


Despite the economic utopianism brought on by globalization, effective solutions to the persistent plight of urban blacks throughout the African diaspora continue to elude scholars, politicians, and community leaders. Charles Green brings a decade of research and original fieldwork in Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States to investigate the interface of the historic racism faced by these urban communities and contemporary trends of globalization. Green pays particular attention to the condition of the youth, whose aspirations, vulnerabilities, and insights into their own conditions are central to the future prospects for their communities as a whole. Considering the impacts of economic restructuring and cultural diffusion alike, his analysis asserts the importance of both global ties and local distinctiveness. Ultimately, Manufacturing Powerlessness aims to encourage the formation of alliances throughout the diaspora so that urban black communities can manufacture a future of empowerment.



Sounds like good stuff. Read a few pages on google books. Havent got it yet and looking for a link that is in stock.

Sula by Toni Morrison.

Just finished the part when Eva sets fire to her drug addict sun, deep.