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Millions have read Kathryn Stockett’s bestselling novel The Help with a mixture of fascination and raw, often tearful, emotion.

Based on the lives of black servants in America’s Southern states of the Sixties, it is a sharply observed portrait of a racially charged, segregationist world that some might say has barely passed.
It has also proved a ( Read more... )

It's the beginning of a new series. Breaking away from his popular detective character Easy Rawlins, Mosley's newest book, The Long Fall, introduces Leonid McGill, an atypical private eye who is both a societal victim and a once-ruthless victimizer.

Read an excerpt from The Long Fall here:
http://www.waltermosley.com/?page_id=101

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As I just commented in a personal LJ, in reference to people of color buying books --

Do you know what the number one bestselling book is this week--according to the chart compiled by USA TODAY anyway, which has been made up of little else but those Stephenie Meyer Twilight books for weeks and weeks?

Steve Harvey's self-help book, Act Like a Lady, ( Read more... )

I know I know, we should TOTALLY be over this Best Of 2008 stuff, but I also didn't see any tags for books or video games. Figured I might as well.

I was prompted to throw this entry up, after lord_darkseid's entry inspired me to recount my copious amounts of purchased entertainment through 2008.

Soooooooooo...read any good books lately in 2008? Got any ( Read more... )