Apparently your bookslut has only been picking books written by those with a Juris Doctor degree. Kent Nelson graduated from Yale with a degree in Political Science and then went on to Harvard Law where he earned a JD in Environmental Law. To be honest, he strikes me as a bit of a bum; theContinue reading “Kent Nelson – Land that Moves, Land that Stands Still”
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Debra Magpie Earling – Perma Red
I adore Native American literature – Sherman Alexie, James Welch, Louise Erdrich, Leslie Marmon Silko… all have homes on my bookshelf. They recently had to move over to make room for Debra Magpie Earling. Earling is a member of the Bitterroot Salish tribe in Montana. She currently teaches Native American Studies and Fiction at theContinue reading “Debra Magpie Earling – Perma Red”
Tamar Yellin – The Genizah at the House of Shepher
Religion has always fascinated me. I grew up in a Southern Baptist Church and have a pretty decent grasp of the Bible. Biblical stories were my bedtime stories and I prayed to the Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost. As I grew up, I began to explore other religions – never as faith-altering explorations, justContinue reading “Tamar Yellin – The Genizah at the House of Shepher”
Don Coldsmith – Runestone
I love historical sagas, always have. I’m quite fond of the books by W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O’Neal Gear, and when I saw their glowing words of praise on the cover of paperback sitting on the book cart at work, well, I knew it would make a perfect poolside read. Don Coldsmith’s Runestone (1995)Continue reading “Don Coldsmith – Runestone”
The White Tiger – Aravind Adiga
Any bookslut who has stumbled across these pages knows my love of most Man Booker Prize novels (both short & long listed and the actual winners). (I say most because of the horrible experience with The Accidental.) The White Tiger, published in 2008 and recipient of the prestigious award the same year, has been sittingContinue reading “The White Tiger – Aravind Adiga”
Love in the Ruins – Walker Percy
Walker Percy (1916-1990) was a Faulkner-lovin’, Tarheel cheerin’, good ole Catholic boy from the deep South. His childhood was marred with tragedy – suicides & car accidents – and he was eventually adopted and raised by his bachelor uncle of a poet, William Alexander Percy. He became friends with Shelby Foote and became a born,Continue reading “Love in the Ruins – Walker Percy”
Doris Lessing – The Golden Notebook
Doris Lessing (b. 1919) is one of what I call my white voices in Africa, but that’s not how she was first introduced to me. My introduction to Lessing was with Briefing for a Descent into Hell (1971), which had nothing to do with Africa and everything to do with a man’s mental breakdown. TheContinue reading “Doris Lessing – The Golden Notebook”
Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela – A Human Being Died that Night
Apartheid is the Afrikaans word meaning “apartness” that defined South African existence from the late 1940s until the early 1990s. This racial divide was implemented and enforced by the National Party to keep the white man in charge and the black man under his thumb. My thesis work centered around three of Nadine Gordimer’s novelsContinue reading “Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela – A Human Being Died that Night”
I am Charlotte Simmons – Tom Wolfe
When the Duke Lacrosse case (2006) rocked the world, and most certainly North Carolina, many people remarked at the similarities between what was revealed as life on Duke and the life at the fictional Dupont University in Tom Wolfe’s I am Charlotte Simmons (2004). For those who argued that Wolfe had sensationalized a culture ofContinue reading “I am Charlotte Simmons – Tom Wolfe”
A Girl Named Tommi 