Introduction to booktube

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My Favorite Things

So as i grow older and reflect on who i am as a woman, Christian, mother, sister, aunty, grandma and friend... i find that mostly things in my life have remained the same. I still love books, journaling, writing, music and painting and creating art. some of my most favorite things Favorite Books in no particular order Song of Solomon---Toni Morrison The Temple of my familiar-Alice Walker The God of Small things---Arundhati Roy i love book shelves and book nooks and candles that are scented deliciously....i will cont. lol i am at work....and i am back.... These are the two books i most recently complteted. And i am a better person for it, meaning i am honoring words, debate, life, research of the American novel, poetry that i am not certain i get unless i sit and ponder a while, do some research on the woman who pinned those words and the times she lived in and how she translated her story of what she saw, felt and lived. These books gave me back why i like to research while reading. I love fun books, mysterious, somewhat romantic and contemporary, science fiction, classic and otherwise. Yet, when i put on a more critical review of the words that are displayed within the clutches of my hand and on my lap, sitting comfortably awaiting transformation...being the reader reading the writer and all of the very reasons they chose to use this particular word or that to describe a woman, a place a time, a man who fathered children yet are absent in the meat of the story but in the readers mind feel him looming over our shoulders tense, barely beating down our back to tell us "isn't it wrong the writer forgot about us", "isn't it wrong that i am no longer there, can't somone here me...i am right here trying to get back into the lives of my family, for my family..." and so the heart break goes when characters disappear, climates change out of character to appease the writers light journey they want us to travel down because they are not ready to face the inevitable distruction of their own pain. Thank you Toni Morrison for making me look deeper, and be the reader, question, asking, wondering, going beyond. As well as understanding and enjoying the front to the back page of a story. life like a story goes on it winds down many a road before there is every a complete finale. Enjoy your reading.

A walk from home to the music

when you are my age.....

I was really enjoying getting old until.... Until, my body started this going towards the other side thing, or over the invisible hill. Feeling the need to start a bucket list. I tire way too easy, i cry when i don't want or need to. I feel the need to stare at my children far past the necessary five seconds. I am making list for all the books i want to read, a long daunting list that is most impossible to get to before my end. No i am not terminal, but then again aren't we all? I want to retire to read. So i am building my Library, purchasing bookshelves, hitting up every book sale i can find. There's so much to read, i want the best list possible, so if anyone reads this let me know what books you would suggest, thanks in advance. Good night to tired now to continue, until next time. Read and live

Sunday is a Blessing

I have slept well, read some, had late breakfast and read some more, then watched some of Hitch then attended my spiritual meeting via phone, read scripture now about to see if i can muster some energy to walk a few blocks in my neighborhood to listen to some live music and record for my youtube channel. Ahhhh Sunday, i love you. Books and Life Live it!

argh Facebook and all the airing of dirty laundry...every second geez

When i am tired of social media that i usually love, i create a blog. Lol But that means one thing for me, time to READ! Current read Saint Monkey by Jacinda Townsend beautiful and transformative. Next up 1Q84by Haruki Murakami delicious read

So I am seriously enjoying GRAPHIC NOVELS AHHAAHAA

I am currently letting my brain calm down from reading Forty Acres. So what better then art in a book. Yes, i love Marjane Satrapi Persepolis series. I am on book 2. The Graphic novels have made me want to paint again and create my own graphic novel story. How about.... The AMAZING ADVENTURES OF AFRO GIRL DUN DUN DUNNNNNN YEAH THAT COULD WORK...

Forty Acres, Dwayne Alexander Smith

FORTY ACRES. WOW! AN AMAZING READ GET IT NOW!

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Forty Acres, Dwayne Alexander Smith: http://youtu.be/94Am1LER17A

September Reads thus far...

Starting in July of this year i dedicated myself to use my libraries amazing free system for checking out up to 50 books and 10 audio and 10 dvd's per month. of course i have not checked out the max each month but this month September i am close to the fifty books, i had 45 books at one time. THE MOSTEST EVER!!! And why wouldn't a book lover like to have fifty free books in their home to graze and nuzzle and ultimately salivate over? No reason i can find folks. So if it's not on my shelf or too expensive for my pocket at the time i march on over and whip my library card out like it's a black card rappers sing about. yikes that was an ugly image. you know pool side honey's, grills, the unswam in pool and ocean backdrop and repetitive tee shirt clad crew huming over the same gimmie the loot lines. Okay, so i have not been watching videos in a long time. welll....i know i know. not talking trash, i am just an old hip hop head. So back to the books. i am really having an amazing time reading books from my library. I will do this until the end of the year, read nothing but library reads. So all the book hauls i have done recently will be shelved and looking pretty sitting patiently waiting for me dust them off and start my TBR owned books list next year 2015. Which is right around the corner folks. oh man time flies when you are reading. Currently i am reading...Forty Acres...IQ84, and will start An untamed state today! Forty Acres by Dwayne Alexander Smith has taken me through so many different levels of anticipation, thrills and oh no they didn'ts that i am going to have to collect myself for a minute. And trust me i only have a minute. Yet, my geez this was one daring ride you may have to buckle up for. I know i did. My hair is still tingling. IQ84 i started along with Forty Acres, because i like to see what takes off and i refused to mop my floors this past weekend because they looked fine enough after i swept them and my grand daughter made a habit of coming over to jump up and down to hear her little feet make the boom sound on the hardwood floors. Now that is a reason to turn on the kidflix and have her mesmerized by martians until i can decide after reading up to page 47 in both books to see which one i was in the mood for. Murakami was so endearing that i wanted to make sure that i etched out time and coffee and comfy pajamas for so i kept going with Forty Acres and enjoy the thrill ride. I am glad i did. Welp, i am at work and on lunch and hoping to pick up and get into at least 50 pages today of An untamed state by Roxane Gay and hopefully get to at least 160 pages by the end of the night so i can finish it by tomorrow because the one very draw back of the library is people like me request books that are not on the shelf and have the nerve for the library to ask those to please return them on time and no i cant recheck it out. well... i guess that is only fair because they did give me two weeks to read it, but i read four other books instead. My bad. Now I have only two days, aint that something? Well happy reading you guys.

What are you reading, and how is it going so far?

until next time... readcooperread

Read and reading so far this month.
Suder by Percival Everette----4stars
Stephen Kings Gunslayer (Graphic Novel) Treachery----3stars
Fault in our Stars, John Green---3stars
Forty Acres by Dwayne Alexander Smith----5stars
IQ84 by Haruki Murakami
An Untamed State by Roxane Gay

Hello and under construction ....

Hello fellow book lovers my name is Denise Cooper. My purpose here is to create a blog about books i read and life on the side. Since most of my time spent on this fantastic earth is trying to run full speed into a book to escape or train my mind to forfeit my million and one voices. I decided to talk about books and life to avoid cleaning my house or finish the hundreds of art projects i would need a lifetime or four to finish. So currently its 5amish and this is day one under construction of yet another project to run and escape to. Stay tuned and avoid doing something on your to do list with me. Bye for now. Cooper