What did you just finish reading?
Kevin Young, The Grey AlbumHard to summarize. Dense and ambitious cultural criticism focusing on African American culture, with particular attention to counterfeits, masks, variable personae, and truthful lies. There's quite a bit about how African American writers and musicians did modernism and postmodernism ( Read more... )

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Also, my two favorite Laura Kinsale novels are $2.99 @ Amazon:

The Shadow and the StarThis is the one with the child prostitute who is trained as a ninja so he can retrieve a katana from London, but who also becomes a jewel thief as part of a complicated plan to shut down ( Read more... )

I'll try not to do these more than once a week, and maybe not that often. It makes me feel so commercialized! But it also gives me an opportunity to recommend books to people. Decisions, decisions.

As a note, I get most of discount information from either store newsletter signups (Kobo, Sony, BooksOnBoard) or from Ereaderiq price drop watch. My ( Read more... )