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Sing Me No Love Songs I'll Say You No Prayers

by Leon Rooke

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Danna said: " A fine collection of short stories so far. I almost feel guilty, only paying $1.08 for a pristine first edition. "

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"I somehow misplaced this hardback short story collection during my last move. My former roommate may have it in storage..." — Aug 27, 2014 10:47AM

Nov 16, 2012 11:07PM · see review

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Dubliners / A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man / Chamber Music

by James Joyce

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Danna said: " Now reading "Counterparts" from Dubliners, a so far brilliant James Joyce collection of short stories, followed by his first novel and lyrical poetry. ...more "

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"Now reading "Counterparts" from Dubliners, a so far brilliant collection of James Joyce short stories." — Sep 27, 2012 10:45AM

Sep 27, 2012 10:56AM · see review

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Fat to Firm at Any Age: How You Can Have a Slimmer, Well-Toned Body at Age 30, 40, and Beyond

by Alisa Bauman

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Danna said: " This book was a great find in the book and music department of a neat thrift store in San Antonio. There were religious weight loss books on the surprisingly organized shelves that turned me off immediately. In the book I've recently begun reading, t ...more "

progress: On page 26. — Aug 27, 2014 10:51AM

Jul 05, 2011 10:09PM · see review

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Danna’s Quotes

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

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“Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?”
― Kurt Vonnegut

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“Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.”
― Toni Morrison

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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

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“As for literary criticism in general: I have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel or a play or a poem is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae or a banana split.”
― kurt Vonnegut, Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage

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A forum for discussion of Literary Fiction by African Americans. The Aim is to spread the word about new and old authors of African or African America ...more

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This is a place to share knowledge. If you are writing and need to know something maybe someone here can give you an answer.

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Reading every Kurt Vonnegut novel and short story collection....in the order is was written!

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No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” —Anne Sexton On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” —Yevgeny Zamyatin “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” —Donald Hall “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” —Boris Pasternak “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” —Charles Simic “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” —Gustave Flaubert “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” —Allen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more

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