Tayari's Blog: Yield Not To Temptation
Posted by TayariJones on December 23, 2005 07:12 PM
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There is an incredible temptation to use one's blog as a site for therapy. This is especially true this time of year. What a relief it would be to spell out my issues in html and hope that readers would write encouraging things in the comments section. The lure is ever greater than the lure of the german chocolate cake I know my mother will have baked by the time I arrive in Atlanta, approximately sixteen hours, twelve minutes, and four seconds from now.
But I will spare you the drama of my internecine family politics. Instead, I will ask, beseech, even BEG you, dear readers, to kindly suggest reading material that I can enjoy while I am holed up in my childhood room, hiding under the bed.
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Comment #1, by HumanityCritic
cool post. Happy Holidays!
December 24, 2005 09:14 PM
Comment #2, by Tammee
Did you read Blood on the Leaves(Jeff Stetson) yet?
I really enjoyed it.
December 24, 2005 10:48 PM
Comment #3, by John
Paul Robeson by Martin Duberman
December 25, 2005 12:30 AM
Comment #4, by Michael Fischer
Tayari, Michael Fischer here (GCSU student..you signed a copy of "LA" for my class;-) I hate holiday-family-drama too. Ugh.
Just finished two story collections: Julie Orringer's "How To Breathe Undewater" and Edward P. Jones' "Lost In The City." Both books shook me so much that I want to shake everyone I see and tell them--"you have to read these two books!"
Happy Holidays!
December 25, 2005 07:59 PM
Comment #5, by alisha
Interriors........ by Iyanla Vanzant
Invisible Life, Just As I Am, & Abide with Me ...............By E. Lynn Harris
True to the Game.........by Terri Woods
B-More Careful...........by Shannon Holmes
December 25, 2005 11:17 PM
Comment #6, by LadyLee
I know I'm late, but "Dancing on the Edge of the Roof" and "On the Right Side of a Dream" by Sheila Williams are quick, thought provoking reads about a middle age woman with a jacked up family who decides one day to just buy a bus ticket and get the heck out of dodge... She ends up in a small town in Montana, and has a few adventures of her own...
Right now, I'm reading "The Douglass Women" by Jewell Parker Rhodes... oh but wait, you've read that already, right?? LOL :)!
December 26, 2005 08:31 AM
Comment #7, by Sherri
I'm late too, but I've been trying to hide ANYWHERE for the last week or so. I'm a part of a "blended" family: My parents, his son, my cousins, his sister.... The stress of a long holiday with my own family is enough to do me in...
But for reading, how about Midnight at the Dragon Cafe by Judy Fong Bates. Or Stigmata, Can't remember the author of that one.
December 26, 2005 12:53 PM
Comment #8, by Jackie
Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle.
January 5, 2006 12:44 PM