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No more school books for a while...I went shopping yesterday and started building my Summer reading collection. This is what I got

The Informers by Bret Easton Ellis (He wrote American Psycho)
Amazon.com: The Informers: Bret Easton Ellis: Books

The Bad Girl by Mario Vargas LLosa
Amazon.com: The Bad Girl: A Novel: Mario Vargas Llosa: Books

The Stranger by Albert Camus

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Conjugal Love by Alberto Moravia

A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J Gaines (currently half-way through)


Any leisure readers on here?

i used to but then i find out i gah start buying books now and dats a leisure i cant afford suh i did stop reading

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as if the filled suitcase of books I have to ship out ain't bad...I got four more yesterday...sigh

Like Heaven by Niala Maharaj (Trinidadian Author)

The Famished Road by Ben Okri (Nigerian Author)

The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat (Haitian Author)

Cereus Blooms at Night by Shani Mootoo (Trinidadian)

Completed Like Heaven

Now starting The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie (Nigerian author)

I've heard great reviews of Half of a Yellow Sun by this author...Have you read it?

Anyways, just finished the Zahir by Paulo Coelho. A hard book for me to get through since there's so much to reflect on.
Started Eleven Minutes by Paulo today (halfway through and Loving It!!).

Also on my list:

Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffeneger(a re-read)
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
Sweetness in the Belly - Camina Gibbs

Yes I've read both Yellow Sun and Purple Hibiscus...both EXCELLENT works

Zahir for me was an experience...there were many times that I had to put it down and literally walk away because it hit a nerve...11 minutes is good too

I got halfway through Splendid Suns and the 1st chapter of Love in the Time of Cholera...plan to try and finish them soon though

You should take a look at Unburnable by Marie Elena-John (Antiguan) and John Crow's Devil by Marlon James (Hilarious)...he also has a new one out that I can't wait to get my hands on...The Book of Night Women...James is Jamaican

My books are:

Hillsbourough The Truth by Phil Scraton
Screw It, Let's Do It by Sir Richard Branson
After the Party A Personal and Political Journey Inside the ANC by Andrew Feinstein
Is It Cox I'm Black? by Ndumiso Ngcobo
After Mandela The Battle for the Soul of South Africa by Alec Russell
A Wag Abroad by Alison Kervin

A Thousand Spendid Suns was a good book definitely not as great as The Kite Runner but definitely worth the read.

Adds books to list.....Thanks a lot!!

I started splendid suns last year and had to put it down too. felt like i was reading the female version of kite runner..*yawn*. lol. but i'll try to get through the whole thing this time around.

yeah...i'd read Kite Runner previously so was coming off the momentum of that...got halfway through and left it alone...it was just sloooooow....but when stuff like that happens I usually say that maybe I didn't read it @ the 'right' time