The Man from Muscle Shoals: My Journey from Shame to Fame
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This is the story of legendary record producer Rick Hall and his historic role in the development of...
Suswatibasu (1703 KP) rated We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy in Books
Nov 16, 2017
Coates is one of the first to show up to discuss all three contemporary themes: the man, the community, national identity. He critiques respectability politics. He writes about mass incarceration. He writes about Michelle Obama and Chicago's South Side. He writes about how Barack Obama was exceptional, in many senses, and about the paradoxical limits of the first black president's power to address race and racism. He writes about the qualitative difference between white economic prospects and black economic prospects, thanks to discriminatory policies promulgated by the government even during progressive times, and about how, in his view, reparations would be the only way to redress the problem.
An air of resignation begins to bleed into Coates' writing even before his last essay, coming into the final years of the Obama administration. It is an eloquent eulogy to the struggles that African Americans are facing and increasingly fearing today.
Kiss of Darkness (Curse of the Guardians #1) by Taylor Aston White
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He despises her… almost as much as his beast craves her. Kyra’s seen and survived the worst...
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ClareR (5879 KP) rated The Vanishing Half in Books
Jul 8, 2020
It’s a story about secrets, lies and reinvention - the sacrifices someone has to make in order to get the life they want. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t.
Stella and Desirée Vignes are identical twin sisters, brought up in a small southern town, where all the inhabitants are black people who could pass for white people if they wanted to (which a very dangerous thing to try and do at the time the story is set).
The twins escape together, and then Stella leaves Desirée. Stella discovers that she can pass as white, and marries a wealthy white man, who knows nothing of her origins. Desirée marries a black man who beats her, and so she escapes back to her mother with her dark skinned daughter, Jude. Jude is never accepted in Desirée’s home town of Mallard, and so she leaves to go to university as soon as she is able to.
This is where Jude’s life unwittingly intersects with that of Stella’s daughter, and secrets that have been kept for so long, are brought out into the open.
I loved everything about this book. The characters and their motivations, the storyline, the way the book was written - everything! I could see why Stella did what she did, and how she felt trapped by her choices, and it’s a great example of how prejudice and racism works in the USA - and potentially here in the UK as well.
I really do highly recommend this book. It’s such a great story that kept me engaged from start to finish. I have to admit to reading it slower to make it last longer - it’s a book that I’ll be recommending to my friends, that’s for sure!
Alex Trybus (79 KP) rated White Noise by PVRIS in Music
Feb 2, 2018
Moon Living Abroad France
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Journalist Aurelia d'Andrea knows what it takes to make the move to France-she's done it twice. In...
Lazy Ways To Make A Living
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Have you ever seen the Thomas crown affair? Faye dunaway (sugar pink lips, fabulous nails, playing...
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