1. ChgoSista wrote:

Goldman Sachs: The Culture of Success by Lisa Endlich

2. Ann wrote:

Basketball Jones- E. Lynn Harris

Call Me Ted– Ted Turner

The black girl next door : a memoir — Jennifer Baszile.

The breakthrough : politics and race in the age of Obama– Gwen Ifill.

Passing strange : a Gilded Age tale of love and deception across the color line — Martha A. Sandweiss.

3. Ann wrote:

My local library never has any of the books Marc reads..sigh….

~Ann~

4. DCI74 wrote:

How the Gifted Brain Learns – David Souza

How the Special Needs Brain Learns – David Souza

Dyslexia, Fluency and the Brain – Maryanne Wolf

The World of the Autistic Child – Bryna Siegel

Rubaiyat – Omar Khayyam

Dysfunctional by Design: The Rebirth of Cultural Survivors – William Green

5. Naomi Christine wrote:

I’ve been just lurking lately, but I’m reading:

Grindhopping: build a rewarding career without paying your dues, by Laura Vanderkam

The Black Male Handbook, edited by Kevin Powell

Outlaw Culture, by bell hooks

On a related tangent, I wish more folks appreciated reading and thoughtfulness. My boss told me I was TOO thoughtful and strategic…Blogs like Marc’s keep my brain nourished in lieu of my damn job.

6. Blaxx wrote:

“Snitch & Informants, Cooperators, and the Corruption of Justice: Informants, Cooperators & The Corruption Of Justice” by Ethan Brown (Just finished this on my lunch break actually)

“Them” by Nathan McCall (halfway done, put it down to read Snitch)

“Friends: A Love Story” by Angela Bassett and Courtney B. Vance

“Killing Pablo” by Mark Bowden

“Monster” by Kody Scott

“Where’s My Fifteen Minutes?” by Howard Bragman

“Outliers” by Malcolm Gladwell

“Relentless” by Ted Rogers

7. Blaxx wrote:

@Ann

What’s a library?

8. booklover17 wrote:

The Sea is So Wide and My Boat is So Small – Marian Wright Edelman

Seen it All and Done the Rest – Pearl Cleage (I wish she still published non-fiction)

Hot, Flat, and Crowded – Thomas Friedman

I just finished In the Night of the Heat – Blair Underwood, Tananarive Due, and Steven Barnes

9. Nubian King wrote:

The Breakthrough: Politics & Race in the Age of Obama by Gwen Ifill

32 Ways to be a Champion in Business by Earvin Magic Johnson

Addicted to Counterfeit Love by Vikki Johnson

10. DCI74 wrote:

Too thoughtful and strategic? interesting

11. ChgoSista wrote:

A-ight now–who’s gon’ ‘fess up to reading ACT LIKE A LADY, THINK LIKE A MAN by “YouKnowWho”? LOL…

12. Nubian King wrote:

I actually have heard some good things about Harvey’s book.

13. wouldn't you like to know? wrote:

LOL @ Chgo and Blaxx.

Doc, i like how you’ve added the links. it makes it a lot easier to add the books directly to my shopping cart..cool touch.

but anyway, i’ve been reading the bible, and the pages of my novel that i’ve been working on. that’s it.

Marc, when exactly is your book going to be available?

random thought: i want one of those kindles so friggin’ bad!

14. ~jjg~ wrote:

All my GRE prep books…

Talk to the Hand–by Lynne Truss

15. Marc Lamont Hill wrote:

WYLTK,

it’ll be out in about 2 weeks… feel free to order it now!

16. econwhat wrote:

Going to a forum with my best friend…attempting to get better informed so I picked up…

“The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems” by Van Jones.

Then a few days later, I picked up…

“Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw it Coming” by Paul Hawken

And also…

“Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution” by Paul Hawken

Good reads so far!

17. zak wrote:

Clotel – William Wells Brown

…and the Walking Dead (Comic book)…counts for me.

18. ChgoSista wrote:

I ain’t gon’ front–the “Mama’s Boy” chapter is OFF THE CHAIN!!!!

19. ChgoSista wrote:

“Monster” by Kody Scott

@ Blaxx: I read this about 14-15 yrs. ago–and I haven’t 4gotten a SINGLE DETAIL!!! Loved it…

20. wouldn't you like to know? wrote:

lol @ marc. well it’s been sitting on my wishlist for about 2 weeks now. i have to order a new sewing machine and dress form, so i may as well add your book to the order as well.

ps – i want mine signed!

21. Ann wrote:

@blaxx…man I am quite selective in what I purchase so most times I check them out from the library and read them and if I like them, then I buy them for my home collection.

@ChgoSista….I picked up Harvey’s book from the library last week…have yet to get into it…

22. Blaxx wrote:

@Ann

I haven’t stepped foot in a library since I was like 11 and that was only because we didn’t have internet access back then like we do now. LOL.

I buy 6 or 7 books at a time because I’m trying to fill my bookshelves. When I get my condo, I want to have a big ass bookshelf that’s just packed.

@Everyone

When did we turn the barbershop into Twitter with all the ‘@(insert name here)’ responses? LOL

23. wouldn't you like to know? wrote:

LOL @Blaxx!! i feel you on the bookshelf. i want one built onto my walls, but the walls in my loft are so weird. i also want a packed ’shelf, but messing with marc, and these hunnit dolla books, that’s definitely gonna be a minute.

100 dollars? gooood lawd thas a lot of money. ay marc, can you just buy the book, and read it to me, at 10 cents per chapter??? LOL j/k i’m channeling my inner chris rock, after all, we do share the same birthday, and venus. ok folks, that’s my fun fact of the day. lol

24. Ann wrote:

@Blaxx

Man I live in the library….have to go at least once a week..
and I feel you on the bookshelves but I only want books I would actually recommend to someone…

25. Blaxx wrote:

So far all of the books on my bookshelf are books that I would lend to at least one person I know. I’ve read every single one, some of them twice.

26. ChgoSista wrote:

Steve Harvey’s book is at the library already?? I’m in the library at least 2x a week.

27. Blaxx wrote:

Yuck! Steve Harvey has a book?

What’s it called? “How to be a tyrannical asshole”?

28. ~jjg~ wrote:

I got mad love for the library! What? That’s where I get some of my books and movies. And interlibrary loan is the bizzom.

29. DCI74 wrote:

The library is my spot plus there’s always a few hot, smart women roaming around!

30. zak wrote:

DC,

I go to the main Phila library at least three times a week…”few” is the perfect term. Most of the time, it’s gals with lock jaw and skin diseases…and the occasional homeless man who takes shits on toilets (yes, ON the toilets)–a shout out to Jackson Pollock I’m guessing.

31. Blaxx wrote:

The library is my spot plus there’s always a few hot, smart women roaming around!

Comment by DCI74 — March 17, 2009 @ 1:51 pm

They are obviously not that hot or not that smart if Mr. Damion Sincere is still single. Ladies, Damion Sincere, he’s single and he’s lonely. If you wanna get at him for a date, holla at me and we’ll work out the rates. I’m so serious, he’s SO sincere.

32. ChgoSista wrote:

@ Blaxx: HAHAHAAAA!!! –> “How to be a tyrannical asshole”?

33. drydock wrote:

Hope you didn’t pay for that Horowitz book. His own biography could be titled from Stalinist to Fascist.

34. Nubian King wrote:

Blax,
Steve harvey’s book is #1 on the NY Times Bestseller list.

35. ~jjg~ wrote:

OHHHH ish Blaxx, you are stupid…in a swagg jacker kinda way…lol…j/k…in a hahah,lmao kinda way of course.

And LOL @ Zak

36. Blaxx wrote:

@Nubian King

Well I won’t be reading that. Fuck Steve Harvey.

37. wouldn't you like to know? wrote:

LOL @everyone!

i used to like libraries, but i don’t have to explain why i don’t bang with them too tough anymore. zak already broke that down. and they never had the books that i wanted. i love mom and pop stores….

but for real for real…the kindle is where it’s at right now.
that thing is the friggin’ truth!

38. marland wrote:

A Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink – about developing the right brain and getting the ‘It Factor’ in order to remain at the professional cutting edge in the post-information age.

Story, Structure, Substance, Style…by Robert McKee (at the suggestion of Daniel Pink)

The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. Maybe she was the Rush Limbaugh of her time, but the woman can tell a good story.

The Shack by Wm. Paul Young – interesting exploration of who God really is for those who never really got satisfying answers to some of their most burning questions

The Numerati by Stephen Baker – too freaked out to talk about it. I just need a minute.

39. Blaxx wrote:

@WYLTK

What’s wrong with reading an actual book? I could never understand why the hell this thing is so popular, it’s like mufuckas can’t just be simple creatures anymore. The day I see a Kindle for newspapers, I’m moving to a hut in Africa yo.

40. Ann wrote:

I am kinda fascinated with the kindle a little bit..but it kinda reminds me of audio books..i just cant get with audio books…i get lost..i have to see the words on the page….

41. wouldn't you like to know? wrote:

@Blaxx, i’m moving to africa too…with my kindle

why i like it, is because you can download all your books unto it. so instead of carrying around a big ass backpack filled with heavy books you can just carry your kindle. you can do mags, newspapers, everything. yo you can even read that joint in the sun!

Ann, to my knowledge the words are displayed on the screen, maybe they have audio for the blind…which is essentially cool too.

see i’m not in to big handbags, i’m more of a wallet and clutch girl. i’m also the type to read at parties or where ever i’m at actually….so the kindle definitely fits my lifestyle.

i mean i wouldn’t do away with books altogether. it’s just a cool thing for when a person’s on the run….jmo

42. Blaxx wrote:

@WYLTK

I guess your bookshelf will just have a Kindle on it? Nah, I collect books for the same reason I collect CDs. When I have kids, I want them to go thru my CD collection the same way I went through my parents vinyl collection

43. ChgoSista wrote:

Blaxx, u have been getting me thru the day with your comments in this thread! LOL!!!!

44. Blaxx wrote:

Glad to know someone is reading them. I thought everyone died when Marc cut back blogging to 2 days a week. Seriously Doc, what the hell? The book is done, published and droppin in 2 weeks, show the shop some love. Don’t we deserve a lil love?

45. wouldn't you like to know? wrote:

@Blaxx

well i guess everyone has their preferences, because i buy a lot of my albums from itunes, then i’ll turn around and still by the cd (just for the jewel case)….and i’m into collecting vinyl….that’s just me.

like i said, i’d never do away with books, but in the event that you’re traveling or just simply on the run, a kindle would definitely come in handy.. the kindle is like the iPod for books…i’m into gadgets and gizmos…but that could be just me….i’m a techno geek/freak….sue me

46. Blaxx wrote:

Well I hate iPods so no wonder I don’t want nothing to do with that shit

47. wouldn't you like to know? wrote:

i can respect that…

peace peace

48. Naomi Christine wrote:

@ zak: you gotta go to the 2nd floor Education/Religion or Arts/Literature sections at the Central branch! We hot, smart women lurk there!

49. Blaxx wrote:

You do know that the next time you go to the library, the second floor is gonna be rammed with single dudes now right Naomi?

50. ChgoSista wrote:

@ Blaxx: One of my girls HATES Steve Harvey,so I told her about your comments here. She asked me to send this to you:

“Steve is being made out to be the new Messiah and for his cheating a$$ to act like his new wife followed those rules/advice makes me sick to my stomach. He is such a hypocrite and I hope his ex-wife Mary writes a tell-all book that surpasses his in sales. Now THAT is one book I would buy.

P.S. – Why would anyone buy a book from a liar? He said that he “cut” all his hair off when all he did was simply throw his lacefront wig in the garbage. Bastard.”

51. Dale J. Thomas wrote:

Still reading the stimulus package.

52. Blaxx wrote:

I just hate Steve Harvey for being a damn hypocrite when that tape of a young Eminem rapping about black women came out AND for what he tried to do to Bernie Mac. For those of yall not in the know, when Ocean’s Eleven was in its early stages of production, Steve Harvey, his agent and his manager called the film’s director, casting director and studio trying to blackball Bernie Mac and say that Steve Harvey would be better for that role. When Bernie Mac died, they were still on the outs and not on speaking terms so when I hear him blubbering on his radio show about how close he and Bernie were, it makes me sick. Fuck a Steve Harvey.

53. ChgoSista wrote:

Blaxx–I don’t know about the Steve Harvey/Eminem deal (WOULD U MIND ELABORATING)–but I am very aware of the Steve/Bernie Mac deal. And I agree with you… And his radio show is SO VERY NOT FUNNY. Thank you. That is all.

54. ~JJG~ wrote:

“He said that he “cut” all his hair off when all he did was simply throw his lacefront wig in the garbage.”–ChgoSista’s Homegirl…ROTFLMBO!

55. Blaxx wrote:

When Benzino and Dave Mays released that tape of Eminem freestyling in 1992. Eminem said some reckless stuff cuz his black girlfriend just dumped him, it wasn’t cool but nobody really cared. Steve Harvey got on his radio show talkin reckless saying he’s revoking Eminem’s “ghetto” pass yet, I’ve heard Steve Harvey say things far more disparaging about black women. Furthermore, I didn’t hear him say shit when Michael Jackson was feelin on little boys or when R. Kelly was peeing on little girls so why single out Eminem (besides the big WHITE elephant in the room)

56. ChgoSista wrote:

Ten Books Every Black Woman Should Read by Zondra Hughes, Editor, N’Digo Magazine

EMPOWERMENT:

1. In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women by Alice Walker
2. What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day by Pearl Cleage
3. Lucy: A Novel by Jamaica Kincaid
4. Betsey Brown: A Novel by Ntozake Shange
5. Black Feminist Thought, Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment by Patricia Hill Collins

ENGAGEMENT:
1. The Living is Easy by Dorothy West
2. Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White Hosue by Lizzie Keckley
3. My Man, Bovanne (short story published in Gorilla, My Love) by Toni Cade Bambara
4. The Street by Ann Petry
5. Daddy Was a Numbers Runner by Louise Meriwether

57. Bigbrowneyes wrote:

ChgoSista,
THANK YOU FOR THAT LIST!!! I need it. I’m a teacher and I will read them all during school break.
You are a GODSend Queen!