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[kateorman]

I do believe that International Blog Against Racism Week is coming up in August, so there's plenty of time for my mad plan: ask you all to read one book (or watch one movie) and then review it during the week

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[kateorman]

Doing this in the comments to avoid looking as though I'm bragging or fishing for a ghetto pass. I'm reading Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz and I have Waiting to Exhale by Terry McMillan in the queue (I want to compare it to the movie). I also want to get my hands on the movie The Business of Fancydancing (recommended by qthewetsprocket IIRC) and to re-read The Chosen, the Chaim Potok book I studied in high school. I need to add some Australian stuff to the list - I've snagged a collection of Aboriginal short films from the library.

My eyes are always bigger than my stomach when it comes to reading and watching, so we'll see how much I actually manage to consume by August. :-)

[the_cockfighter]

Brilliant idea Kate.

Ray Lawrence's film Jindabyne is worth looking at.

[karjack]

What an excellent idea. I recommend Lion's Blood by Steven Barnes.

[rainbowjehan]

Hi! Two things.

1. I typo'd deorsum as deorum when I left you that comment the other day, I am pretty sure. Sorry! I hope you haven't used it yet!

2. It would be really cool to do that. I will happily look for anything you suggest.

[kateorman]

1. No, it's fine - here 'tis!

2. You're about 1000000 times better read than I am already! :-)

[rainbowjehan]

1. Eeeeee! Awesome.

2. Where by better read you mean I have read more children's and young adult novels than anybody else in the world, including probable actual children. No, no, please recommend me something!

[kateorman]

No, man, all those CLASSICS!

I've only just started to read with a deliberate eye to diversity myself, so I'm not exactly a foundtain of recommendations. You could give bell hooks' Bone Black, Richard Wright's Black Boy, or Chaim Potok a squiz at the library.

[kateorman]

I pick up books at random all the time (I read Slant because I liked the cover) but I also seek out particular books when a subject catches my attention (I read Dawn because it was feminist science fiction).

What do you read (other than SF)? How do you choose it?

[kateorman]

I do that "gobble the back catalogue" thing with authors too! I'm currently very s l o w l y working my way through the novels of Niall Griffiths, and even m o r e s l o w l y through Kerouac and Hunter S. Thompson.