1. Rochelle Spencer wrote:

Ok–you’re reading A LOT more nonfiction than I am. I just finished Asali Solomon’s wonderful short story collection Get Down, and now I’m reading Victor LaValle’s Big Machine, Colson Whitehead’s Sag Harbor, and Melville’s Moby Dick…It’s taking me a while to get through the LaValle & Whitehead b/c I admire them so much as writers that I keep re-reading sentences/passages that strike me as particularly interesting or inspired…For the opposite reason, it’s taking me FOREVER to get through Melville. I know it’s a classic, but I don’t understand the constant divergences and what they add to the story?????

2. Tara wrote:

I haven’t had my nose in a book in about two weeks. Most of my reading is online via blogs (and admittedly, Twitter).

BUT! I will be checking out Andrea Baptiste Schlesinger’s The Death of Why: The Decline of Questioning and the Future of Democracy this weekend.

The Real HipHop sounds interesting. To that point, have you seen This Is The Life documentary about South Central LA’s underground hip-hop scene? Good stuff.

3. Mario wrote:

The Underground History of American Education by John Taylor Gatto

4. Jarrett wrote:

Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance by Janet R. Jakobsen and Ann Pellegrini

5. james wrote:

du fu: a life in poetry, edited by david young

jules verne 20000 leagues under the sea, the naval press edition

6. liz caponi wrote:

Thomas a Kempis’ “Of the Imitation of Christ” I keep trying. And my guitar effects processor handbook–keep trying w that too. BTW Good luck on the physical and spiritual cleansing! Hope it doesn’t mean you’ve sworn off Red Eye!

7. Tina Kubala wrote:

What? No novels? I’m reading The Shipping News. Just finished The Kite Runner. Not sure what’s on deck.

8. MLL wrote:

SUM – Forty Tales from the Afterlives – David Eagleman

Just ordered – awaiting shipment:
1. Body, Self and Soul – Dr’s Rosenberg & Rand
2. Never Satisfied – Baisden – thx to DC

9. Glenn E. Porter wrote:

Letters to a Young Brother by Hill Harper

10. zak wrote:

Lonesome Dove – Larry McMurtry

11. Mrs. Rivers wrote:

The Mystical Journey from Jesus to Christ – Dr. Muata Ashby
Stolen Legacy – Dr. Asa Hilliard