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Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom: Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing by Christiane Northrup
Naked Came I by David Weiss
Pillar of Salt by Albert Memmi
Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits by Laila Lalami
Afterwards by Rachel Seiffert
I Lock My Door Upon Myself by Joyce Carol Oates
Write Home for Me: A Red Cross Woman in Vietnam by Jean Debelle Lamensdorf
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Favorite authorsChimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Muhammad Asad, Martha Beck, Elizabeth Berg, Charlotte Brontë, Edwidge Danticat, Denyse Devlin, Charles Dickens, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Bessie Head, Kazuo Ishiguro, Martin Lings, Naguib Mahfouz, Rohinton Mistry, Maggie O'Farrell (Shared favorites)
About meMy Reading Threads on LT:
My thread in the Club Read 2009 group.
Another in the 75 Books Challenge 2009 group.
and my favorite global reads in the Reading Globally group.
If you want a peek at last year's reads, it's here.
My Most Recent Good Reads:
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi (Iran)
Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat (Haiti)
Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits by Laila Lalami (Morocco)
Sharon and my Mother-In Law: Ramallah Diaries by Suad Amiry (Palestine/Israel)
Ancestor Stones by Aminatta Forna (Sierra Leone)
The Spare Room by Helen Garner (Australia)
The Red Carpet by Lavanya Sankaran (India)
A Brief History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka (UK/Ukrainian immigrants)
Great Global Reads in 2008:
By the Sea by Abdulrazak Gurnah (former Zanzibar, now Tanzania)
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (UK)
The Seasons of the Beento Blackbird by Akosua Busia (The Carribean, Ghana)
Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga (former Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe)
Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton (South Africa)
Small Island by Andrea Levy (Jamaica and the UK)
Mosquito by Roma Tearne (Sri Lanka)
Lemona's Tale by Ken Saro-Wiwa (Nigeria)
Sweetness in the Belly by Camilla Gibb (Ethiopia)
Earth and Ashes by Atiq Rahimi (Afghanistan)
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa Lee (China)
After You'd Gone Maggie O'Farrell (Scotland)
Burning Marguerite by Elizabeth Inness-Brown (USA)
Gift From the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh (USA)
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posted by janeajones at 12:33 pm (EST) on Nov 22, 2009
how are you? i see that one of your recent good reads is a book from Morocco. would you recommend any more titles by a Moroccan author, or about Morocco -- whether fiction or not? i'm traveling there in a few weeks and would like to read up a bit, i'm practically ignorant about lit from this part of the continent! thanks, in advance, for any suggestions...
deebee
posted by deebee1 at 2:48 pm (EST) on Oct 26, 2009
posted by Whisper1 at 4:41 pm (EST) on Oct 22, 2009
Thule is a mythical island said to be up north from everywhere. So I guess it's kind of nowhere :)
posted by rosefromthule at 7:09 am (EST) on Sep 16, 2009
Darryl
posted by kidzdoc at 9:41 am (EST) on Jul 25, 2009
posted by avaland at 2:45 pm (EST) on Jun 14, 2009
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posted by rachbxl at 1:44 pm (EST) on Jun 1, 2009
posted by PrincessT at 5:29 am (EST) on May 29, 2009
Have you heard of or read the book "Classrooms in the Shade" by Shanthee Manjoo? I received an e-mail yesterday morning from Amazon about it. This is Amazon's product description:
From the opening Sanskrit mantra to the final act of voting in South Africa's first democratic elections, this lyrical memoir provides a unique perspective on South Africa's modern history. The account shows how a young Hindu woman of Indian ancestry, living in South Africa in the 1940s, defied convention, married a Muslim man, and became an activist at time when Muslim women were seldom seen in such a role. As a teacher, she spoke up during the political strife of that highly segregated era, which included the relocation of Indians and angry student boycotts, and here shares her philosophies and insights into education. Filled with characters from both a personal and national context, the memoir captures the nuances of an important time and place.
It sounds interesting, and I wanted to get your thoughts on it.
Best wishes,
Darryl
posted by kidzdoc at 6:57 am (EST) on May 7, 2009
Joined, and I'm already hooked. :D
Now just adding books and exploring.
posted by mashadutoit at 2:07 pm (EST) on May 5, 2009
I did like Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress too, but Bean Trees was much more enjoyable. Balzac, there was something to be learned. it was very well written and as a book lover it was beautiful to watch two young boys find immense value in reading.
I hope that you like them both!
posted by everydayxangels at 12:38 am (EST) on Apr 12, 2009
posted by meggyweg at 7:35 am (EST) on Apr 10, 2009
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posted by rachbxl at 5:01 am (EST) on Apr 9, 2009
posted by dchaikin at 9:06 am (EST) on Feb 20, 2009
So I've just finished The Devil That Danced on the Water, and just started Infidel, and ordered a half dozen more from the public library. LT is dangerous! -Melissa
posted by ziziaaurea at 10:30 pm (EST) on Feb 16, 2009
thanks for the wonderful message - I will consider joining a group, but as you can see from the time between my messages, I am trying to do too much (always!!!) and not always able to give all to any one thing - so i hesitate to put my name to another activity! problem is that there's too much that interests me....
I would so love to visit cape town - your pics let me know that it's exactly the kind of place i'd love - mountains, ocean and lovely people (yes, you!) -
am having a good time reading now that my company is gone - had family visiting for 22 of the last 30 days - so i'm reading the 19th wife and listening to skeletons at the feast - both heavy reading, both very good so far.
hope you're having a great summer -
ps - i loved your liv ullman quote and will use it in my e-mails!
best wishes, Nancy (njinthesun)
posted by njinthesun at 8:33 pm (EST) on Feb 16, 2009
I finally received my copy of "Travelling with Djinns" this week. I absolutely love this book so far! Have you read anything else by Mr. Mahjoub?
Talk to you soon,
Darryl
posted by kidzdoc at 10:38 am (EST) on Feb 14, 2009
I'm glad that you're reading and enjoying "A Grain of Wheat". I'll probably start reading "Petals of Blood" next month. I enjoyed "Wizard of the Crow" even more than "A Grain of Wheat", and I would love to read it again (although the hundreds of other books on Mt TBR are also clamoring for my attention!).
I just posted a review of the latest book I read, "Mi Revalueshanary Fren" by the dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson. I hope to finish "The Obscene Bird of Night" by Jose Donoso this weekend. I'm off this weekend; well. I'm off today, and I may have to work tomorrow night (6 pm to 1 am) to help admit kids to the hospital if the doc on call gets overwhelmed (I hope not!). Next week I only work three days, so I should get some good reading in.
Your posts have been absolutely fantastic, especially those on your Reading Globally page. Thanks for sharing with all of us.
Have a great weekend! Talk to you soon.
Darryl
posted by kidzdoc at 11:46 am (EST) on Jan 24, 2009
I need your address so I can get you a copy of Ex-Libris. It is a wonderful book, one of my all-time favorites. You simply must get a copy!
Stasia
posted by alcottacre at 1:42 am (EST) on Jan 19, 2009
I got the candy and the book today! Thank you so much!
So, what can I send you? Hmmm . . .
Stasia
posted by alcottacre at 3:55 pm (EST) on Jan 16, 2009
posted by dchaikin at 2:46 am (EST) on Dec 14, 2008
posted by deebee1 at 9:25 am (EST) on Nov 20, 2008
posted by deebee1 at 10:30 am (EST) on Nov 19, 2008
Yes, I've read Family Matters, and A Fine Balance as well, and I loved them, too. The problem is that I read all 3 in the space of a few months so now I've no idea which was which. As far as Canadian authors are concerned (apart from ones like Mistry who was born in India), don't tell anyone, but I don't think I've read many... Every time I stumble upon a discussion of Canadian lit, I realise the extent of my ignorance! I like Atwood (her novels much more than her short stories, and I really DON'T like her occasional writing), and last year I discovered Alice Munro - I'm trying not to do the same thing as with Mistry so I'm taking it very slowly and have only read 2 of her books so far, but I really liked them and will read more. I recently acquired a book by Robertson Davies and one by Mordecai Richler, partly in at attempt to fill the gaps (but they've gone into boxes, and who knows when they'll re-appear?) How about you - what have you been underwhelmed by?
Any inkling of a decision yet?
r xx
posted by rachbxl at 3:57 am (EST) on Sep 28, 2008
I see you've just added [Such a Long Journey], by the way - another of my absolute favourites.
R
posted by rachbxl at 4:28 am (EST) on Sep 27, 2008
posted by almigwin at 3:28 am (EST) on Sep 15, 2008