Spring Reading
Adolf Alzuphar haitian, haitian-american, novels, edwidge danticat, jacques roumain, jacques stephen alexis, - because of the gut numbing problems the country is facing, and the fact that the international community has failed to respond well despite that haiti is and has been in the hearts of a huge amount of americans since the earthquake.
David Evan Harris: I'm enjoying Marina Gorbis' new book, The Nature of the Future. Full disclosure, I'm biased though, because it features a section on National Endowment for the Arts grantee, Global Lives Projecthttp://www.amazon.com/The-Nature-Future-Dispatches-Socialstructed/dp/1451641184 [Becca's note: David Evan Harris is the head of Global Lives]
Maureen E Doallas Tracy Kidder and Richard Todd's "Good Prose" (wonderful insights into the art and craft of writing); and Gretel Ehrlich's "Facing the Wave: A Journey in the Wake of the Tsunami" (a beautifully written and moving account of resilience).
Bryan J. Arwood Ashlandmenshouse.com The Last Seer and the Tomb of Enoch
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Lauren Sowa Currently, the Game of Thrones series and Emma by Jane Austen.
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August Russo ...re-reading John Collier's, Fancies & Goodnights !
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Marta V. Martinez Re-reading "Bless Me, Última" for the umpteenth time. My organization is spearheading a RI Latinos Read project in Rhode Island.
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Jen Richardson Trust Fund Baby- Douglas Richardson; Stardust & A Soul - Scott Kaestner; Borderline- Nevada Barr; The Poisonwood Bible- Barbara Kingsolver
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Laura Damon-Moore The Art Forger by B.A. Shapiro!
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Laura Musser The Painted Girls - Edgar Degass wax-and-fabric statuette Little Dancer Aged Fourteen has held the curiosity of millions in its 28 bronze reproductions, but far fewer know the heart-rending history of the model, Marie van Goethem, and her sisters. In The Painted Girls, a historically based work of fiction rich with naturalistic details of late-19th-century Paris, Cathy Marie Buchanan paints the girls who spring from the page as vibrantly as a dancers leap across a stage…The Painted Girls is a captivating story
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Edi Lov Zermeno Borderland La Frontera: the New Mestiza--Gloria Anzaldua
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Guillaume Micholet It's about litterature, is an auto fiction, and it's French : Simon Liberati, 113 études de littérature romantique.
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Perrin Cothran The Artists way at work by Julia cameron
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Arts Council Napa Valley Our Programs Manager just finished The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker and Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt and can't stop raving about them!
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Melissa Rice ARC of Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
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Helen Seslowsky Americah by Chimamanda Ngozei Adichie, Transatlantic by Column McCann, The Impossible Lives if Greta Wells by Andrew Sean Greer and A Dance With Dragons by George RR Martin
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Helen Seslowsky Ngozi, Colum ...sorry auto correct!
