tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43030081608004600592024-03-13T10:46:40.516-05:00Bookaddict4realbookaddict4realhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12534665130992029124noreply@blogger.comBlogger249125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303008160800460059.post-77479471206751248002019-04-22T15:33:00.000-05:002019-04-22T16:54:47.490-05:00New LocationIf you have made it here then I want to direct you to my newer improved blog over on wordpress (New blog.) I just want to thank you guys for the journey.....looking forward to new adventures!bookaddict4realhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12534665130992029124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303008160800460059.post-48958630855719954202019-04-16T12:52:00.004-05:002019-04-16T13:45:22.297-05:00An Old Story By Tracy K Smith
An Old Story
Launch Audio in a New Window
BY TRACY K. SMITH
We were made to understand it would be
Terrible. Every small want, every niggling urge,
Every hate swollen to a kind of epic wind.
Livid, the land, and ravaged, like a rageful
Dream. The worst in us having taken over
And broken the rest utterly down.
&bookaddict4realhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12534665130992029124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303008160800460059.post-90691651874009601942019-04-16T12:45:00.003-05:002019-04-22T13:37:30.429-05:00Book Review : Ghana Must Go by Taiye SelasiTaiye SelasiSynopsis: Ghana Must Go tells the story of Folsade Savagewho leaves Lagos for Pennsylvania she meets her Ghananian husband , Kweku Sai, a brilliant surgeon. Fola, as she is called gives up her dream of going to law school in order to raise their four children. After losing his job, Kweku abandons them all and returns to Ghana; When the book opens the family has splintered bookaddict4realhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12534665130992029124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303008160800460059.post-92121535401397468792019-04-11T11:29:00.002-05:002019-04-11T11:31:23.264-05:00Book Review: Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson
Fijrst Impressions:
: Haunting . It felt like we were always on the periphery of disaster, everything was etched in sadness.
I like how the author compared the girls coming of age to a jazz ensemble. The progression of the girls friendship seemed , in the beginning, melodic , inevitable ,right.
The death of the August's mother permeates everything in the story like being in a bookaddict4realhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12534665130992029124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303008160800460059.post-11617704695877225342017-12-18T10:30:00.000-06:002017-12-18T10:34:07.380-06:00You Go Girl series
Over the weekend I was watching CW39 ,here in Houston, that Wonder Woman was the highest grossing superhero origin story,more women are running for political office than ever before,and #Metoo sparked a lot of conversations about sexual harrassment . What does this have to do with the Mindy Kaling book?
I thought this book would be a great beginning to my You Go Girl bookaddict4realhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12534665130992029124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303008160800460059.post-85419170812620806982017-06-21T10:03:00.001-05:002017-06-21T10:03:34.504-05:00The morning after....Love by Kattie M. Cumbo(poem) Clouds fill the sky
The breeze is cool
Work a demanding task
I walk
My mind is relaxed
My body, remembering
The morning after love
A feeling fills my heart
Like a cup of calm black
Mist, refreshing
I walk
A new day remembering
For a short spell
Your embrace.
Life trying to take on new
Meaning, a dirty world reaching
bookaddict4realhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12534665130992029124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303008160800460059.post-37420953652287030552017-05-18T13:09:00.000-05:002017-05-18T13:09:03.023-05:00The Life I led by Nikki Giovanni (poem)i know my upper arms will grow
flabby it's true
of all the women in my family
i know that the purple views
like dead fish in Seine
will dot my legs one day
and my hands will wither while
my hair turns grayish white I know that
one day my teeth will move when
my lips smile
and a flutter of hair will appear
below my nose I hope
my skin doesn't change to those blotchy
colors
i want my menses to be bookaddict4realhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12534665130992029124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303008160800460059.post-82081096003452115932017-05-18T12:34:00.000-05:002017-05-18T12:38:56.329-05:00Book review Dictionary of Mutual Understanding by Jackie CopeltonSYNOPSIS
Ama survived the bombing of Nagasaki in 1945.Her husband Kenzo has died, leaving her a widow . A widow who drinks to medicate the pain from her past. Until a strange man comes to her door one day ,claiming to be Hideo , her grandson who died in the bombings all those years ago. Even though this would be a refuge from the loneliness she is prisoner of caution, bookaddict4realhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12534665130992029124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303008160800460059.post-53061078989526892152017-05-12T14:46:00.000-05:002017-05-12T14:52:43.326-05:00The Girl Who was Saturday Night by Heathers ONeillThe first 50 pages were a struggle... but it began to get interesting as to why Nicholas hasn't done anything to support his child outside petty thievery. Noscha, his sister ,is tired of being a former minor celebrity. She can see the truth of who they are. She begins to make changes like going to night school, but not easy undertaking. Their Grandfather who has cared for them all their bookaddict4realhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12534665130992029124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303008160800460059.post-25496769231308426072017-02-12T14:06:00.001-06:002017-02-12T14:06:05.340-06:00Adore by Prince I just wanted to share some of the lyrics to my all time favorite artist Prince Rogers Nelson. Tonight there will be a tribute on the Grammy's so I felt it would be nice to give a tribute to the on the blog.
Chorus: Until the end of time I ll be there for you .U own my heart and mind. I truly adore you.If God One Day Struck me blind
Your beauty I'd still see. Love is to weak to define. bookaddict4realhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12534665130992029124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303008160800460059.post-49312189874724463962017-01-17T10:35:00.001-06:002017-01-17T10:35:09.858-06:00Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day by Nikki Giovanni
Here is one of my all time favorite poem by my all time favorite poet ! I had bought the book years ago. I have her collected poems and on Spotify you can actually hear the poet in her calm , cool , way deliver it. If you haven't heard it I would highly recommend it. I also think a mark of a good poet is someone that can see abookaddict4realhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12534665130992029124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303008160800460059.post-91633279494434139082016-10-26T16:51:00.001-05:002016-10-29T12:51:24.984-05:002016-2017 To be read listHere it is ny To Be Read List for October 2016-October 2016 I think it will be shorter next year because I have books within a series I like to review so that doesn't count them all the time
A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding
    By Jackie Copleton
2. A Man called Ove by Fredrik Backman
    
3. That Thing I Never Told You
     By Celeste bookaddict4realhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12534665130992029124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303008160800460059.post-48229493645923127472016-10-22T11:14:00.000-05:002016-10-22T11:14:10.834-05:00Philosopher by Edna St Vincent MillayAnd what are you wanting you
I should be kept awake
As many nights as there are days
With weeping for your sake?
And what are you that missing you,
As many days crawl
I should be listening to the wind
And looking at the wall?
I know a man that's a braver man
And twenty men as kind
And what are you, that you should be
The one man in my Mind?
Yet women's ways are witless waysbookaddict4realhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12534665130992029124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303008160800460059.post-44020821038862699772016-10-22T10:42:00.000-05:002016-10-22T10:42:18.195-05:00Sienna St.James series:Book one Losing HopeLeslie January Sherrod has written an Urban Christian Series on Sienna St.James
,who like the author is a social worker. As a writer,I can see the benefit of writing from your experiences. JOHN Grisham doesn't write about being a flame of dancer or scientist. Why? We readers can tell when something isn't the authors experience. The nuances of the story always give it away (or the lack bookaddict4realhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12534665130992029124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303008160800460059.post-45347407694743318652016-10-02T20:41:00.001-05:002016-10-02T20:41:42.574-05:002016 National Book Award for Fiction Longlist1) Colson Whitehead The Underground
2)Karen Mahajan The Association of Small Bombs
3)Adam Haslett Imagine Me Gone
4)Lydia Millet Sweet Lamb of Heaven
5)Garth Greenwell What Belongs to You
6)Jacqueline Woods on Another Brooklyn
7)Elizabeth McKenzie The Portable Veblen
8)Brad Watson Miss Jane
9)Paulette Jules News of The World
10) Chris Bachelor The Throwback
bookaddict4realhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12534665130992029124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303008160800460059.post-40937326852006032372016-09-26T18:55:00.003-05:002016-09-26T18:55:53.752-05:00Part two of Challenged Books: A definition and a list of 20 most challenged booksQ: What is a book challenge?
A: According to Media & Culture: Mass Communication in a Digital Age, It's a formal request made by an individual or group to have a book removed from a school or public library. Here are the Top
20 Banned Books
1.The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald
2. The Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger
3.The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
4.To Kill A Mockingbird bookaddict4realhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12534665130992029124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303008160800460059.post-21951870436495013252016-09-12T11:26:00.001-05:002016-09-12T11:26:25.161-05:00Top ten frequently challenged books of 2015
Looking for Alaska, by John Green Reasons: Offensive language, sexually explicit, and unsuited for age group.
Fifty Shades of Grey, by E. L. James Reasons: Sexually explicit, unsuited to age group, and other (“poorly written,” “concerns that a group of teenagers will want to try it”).
I Am Jazz, by Jessica Herthel and Jazz Jennings Reasons: Inaccurate, homosexuality, sex education, religious bookaddict4realhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12534665130992029124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303008160800460059.post-64295310719786050732016-08-10T15:26:00.006-05:002016-08-10T15:26:59.831-05:00Poem: Mother's habits by Nikki GiovanniI have all
My mother's habits
I awake in the middle of the night
To smoke a cigarette
I have a terrible fear of flying
And I don't like being alone
In the dark
Sleep is a sport we all
Participate in
It's the scourge of youth
And a necessity of old age
Though it only hastens the day
When dissolution is inevitable
I grow tired
Like my mother doing without
Even one small word
That says I care
And bookaddict4realhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12534665130992029124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303008160800460059.post-62949244144327615262016-07-14T15:28:00.000-05:002016-07-14T15:28:10.482-05:00Poem: Bean eaters by Gwendolyn BrooksThey eat beans mostly,this old yellow pair.
Dinner is a casual affair
Plain chipware on a plain and freaking wood,
Tin flatware.
Two who are Mostly Good.
Two who have lived their day
But keep on putting on their clothes
And putting on their clothes
And putting things away
And remembering...
Remembering, with twinklings and twinges
As they lean over the beans in their rented back bookaddict4realhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12534665130992029124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303008160800460059.post-57504534670433404672016-06-17T11:52:00.001-05:002016-06-17T11:52:31.129-05:00Author spotlight: My literary crush on Junot DiazDoesn't hurt that I find him attractive I tend to find smart guys sexy! Wow when a guy can hold his end of an intellectual conversation your sexiness factor just went up, but I digress.
Besides, he is more than eye candy to .
I am enthralled/enamoured with a writer who draws from his life experiences. I feel like I'm eavesdropping on someone's conversation, when I read bookaddict4realhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12534665130992029124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303008160800460059.post-9213647079926326202016-06-11T12:21:00.002-05:002016-06-11T12:21:21.640-05:00Book to film series: Silver Lining Playbook
Thank goodness Mathew Quick made the decision to leave his teaching job to write full time in 2004 or we wouldn't have Silver Lining Playbook or "Forgive me Leonard Peacock" and "Every Exquisite thing" his latest book "The Reason You Are Alive" will be out in 2017 All of his books have been optioned for film ,which I thought was cool. I will be reviewing other books that have been made into bookaddict4realhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12534665130992029124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303008160800460059.post-37365554941304600182016-06-04T13:30:00.006-05:002016-06-04T13:30:59.243-05:00Six Minutes by Kadija Sesay (poem)That first day
Was the longest,
The day you left.
I spent
Sixhours sleeping
Six hours reading
Six hours eating
Six hours sitting
Six hours writing
Fighting
Every inclination in me
To convince the
Holiday company that
I was too I'll to stay
Away from you.
I wasn't homesick
Just you sick
Which annoyed me.
Until today I didn't believe
That it's not where you are
But who you're with
bookaddict4realhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12534665130992029124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303008160800460059.post-8293777563388552852016-05-27T12:13:00.006-05:002016-05-27T12:13:54.668-05:00Christian book series : The Promise by Tony EvansI have decided to kick off my Christian book series with the Promise by Tony Evans.There will be other series such as Books- to-Film,The Last Jihad by Joel c Rosenberg will kick off our Political Thriller series,Sienna st James series starting with Losing Hope by Leslie J.Sherrod and the What I like about you series where we will look at the Authors we like and/or up and coming.Well back tobookaddict4realhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12534665130992029124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303008160800460059.post-89433338569083859952016-03-17T13:53:00.002-05:002016-03-17T13:53:44.274-05:00What we're reading on Good reads:Around the World in 80 booksAllAll creatures great and small by James Herriot
Start date 3/15/16
End date 4/15/16
The last will and Testament of Senhor da Silva Araujo
By Germano Almeida and Sheila Faria Glazer
Start date 3/15/16
End date 4/15/16bookaddict4realhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12534665130992029124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303008160800460059.post-30534893639816994392016-03-03T10:15:00.001-06:002016-03-03T10:15:15.642-06:00Poem By Rita Dove " I have been a stranger in a strange land
I have been a stranger in a strange land”
“I have been a stranger in a strange land”
By Rita Dove b. 1952 Rita Dove
Life's spell is so exquisite, everything conspires to break it. Emily Dickinson
It wasn't bliss. What was bliss
but the ordinary life? She'd spend hours
in patter, moving through whole days
touching, bookaddict4realhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12534665130992029124noreply@blogger.com