Category: Read
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The deceptive nature of Delta of Venus by Anais Nin
I found the Delta of Venus in the Bargain bin at Barnes and Noble on one of my almost daily visits. It was a steal at $5.96 and I endeavored to read it as soon as I was done with my current read, which was The Doors of Perception. I couldn’t start it after because,…
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Book One – Delta of Venus
Hard to believe that I have not read this yet, especially after my Henry Miller phase last year.
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Daily Prompts: We can be taught
http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/09/21/daily-prompt-greatness/ Without a doubt, the single most influential teacher I’ve had was my HS English Teacher Ms G. She was everything I hoped to be in High School; witty, articulate, intelligent and doing what she loved. Her was a small woman, but her presence and love of teaching in creative ways was so over powering…
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Akata Witch – Nnedi Okorafor
I stumbled across this book by chance really, one of the amazing women I follow on Twitter said it was going to be the next book read and discussed for our Twitter Book Club. As always, I’ll never turn down a book with the promise of discussion after so I bought it for my Nook…
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Inspiration: Chinua Achebe
The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel before them – Things Fall Apart. – Thoughts – Things Fall Apart is one of those books that you read as a child that changed your life, especially if you read it in High School and had an amazing English…
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J.D Salinger – Misunderstood
Catcher in the Rye is definitely not the only effective book I’ve read by JD Salinger, but it was the first. It’s honesty and human-ness shocked me as a child accustomed to reading fairy tales. I was too young to read it then but when I re-read it in high school I understood. People argue…
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