August 2009 African American Reading List
By APOOO • Aug 2nd, 2009 • Category: Book Club of the Week •
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Listed below are a few books that APOOO members plan to read during the month of August. Feel free to join us and read any of them…as someone will be available to discuss them and talk about them with you.
A Beautiful Place to Die – Mali Nunn
Before I Forget by Leonard Pitts Jr.
Black Water Rising – Attica Locke
Cell Block Z – Ghostface Killah – review book
Children of the Waters- Carleen Brice
The City and the City – China Mieville
Deja Vu – Suzetta Perkins
The Devil is a Lie – Reshonda Tate Billingsley
Drift – Victoria Patterson
God Ain’t Blind – Mary Monroe
Everything is Now – Michelle Cliff
Let’s Get it On – Jill Nelson
The Long Fall- Walter Mosley
Man of Fortune- Rochelle Alers
Not Guilty of Love – Pat Simmons
On Black Sister’s Street – Chika Unigwe
The Other Side of Paradise
Save the Best for Last – Bettye Griffin
Schae’s Story- Angelia Menchan
Sins of the Father – Angela Benson
Somebody’s Sinning in My Bed – Pat G’Orge Walker
Surviving Chadwick- Phillip Wilhite
The Ties that Bind- Bertice Berry
What They Found: Love on 145th St. – Walter Dean Myers
Who Is He To You – Monique Mensah
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
What BOOKS from ABOVE have you read and enjoyed?
What books do you plan to read during the month of August?
Share your list via the comments section.
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I read Black Water Rising – 4****
The Devil is a Lie 4****
Let’s Get it On – 4****
The Long Fall – 3.5***
angelia
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I haven’t read any of the above books yet. But I plan to read:
The Devil is a Lie – Reshonda Tate Billingsley
God Ain’t Blind – Mary Monroe
Sins of the Father – Angela Benson
The Ties that Bind- Bertice Berry
I need to catch up with you ladies…lost my reading mojo and haven’t read in a couple of months.
Will be reading:
Children of the Waters
Before I Forget
Fit to be Tied by Mildred Riley
Caliente by Various authors
Carnivale Diabolique by Various authors
Cougar Tales by Various authors
The following are all Brenda Jackson books:
Fire and Desire
Secret Love
True Love
Surrender
Taste of Passion
Temperatures Rising
I am hoping that I get my mojo in full swing!
I read Sins of the Father. You must read this before the end of the month.
I feel you, Yas! I’m still reading, but I’m definitely reading at a slower pace than usual! I’ve read The Devil is a Lie by Reshonda Tate Billingsley already, and I still have a few to read, including Children Of the Waters, Sins of the Father, and Man of Fortune, and the others in the series. I have to catch up soon, as I go back to work next week!
Haven’t read any of the above books. Some books I do plan to read this month include: The Kat Trap by Cairo, Obsessed by Devon Scott, Unfaithful by Devon Scott and Kalifornia Luv by Clifford Spud Johnson.
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Jessica good luck with getting your books read before you go back to work. Stop by and let us know how well you do.
I have read a few and will read a few.
Read:
Let’s Get it On – Jill Nelson
Schae’s Story- Angelia Menchan
Sins of the Father – Angela Benson
The Other Side of Paradise – Staceyann Chin
Will Read:
Children of the Waters – Carleen Brice
God Ain’t Blind – Mary Monroe
That’s it for now.
I’ve either read or have one of the following August books in my TBR pile:
Children of the Waters- Carleen Brice
The Devil is a Lie – Reshonda Tate Billingsley
Man of Fortune- Rochelle Alers
Save the Best for Last – Bettye Griffin
Schae’s Story- Angelia Menchan
Sins of the Father – Angela Benson
Somebody’s Sinning in My Bed – Pat G’Orge Walker
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