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Books News You Can Use 11/29/13

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Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! I would like to take this time and thank everyone (sorors and those in the Charleston community) who came out to Charleston Alumnae's event with Kwame Alexander last Friday.  Special thanks goes out to the staff at the main library at Charleston County Public Library for being wonderful hosts.  I was event coordinator for this event and was nervous on whether it would be a success. And it was!  Hopefully this will not be the last literary event that my chapter will organize.  I have some ideas so stay tuned! And one more thing....GO GAMECOCKS!! BEAT THE TIGERS!! Relax in Paradise Wanda Coleman . Michelle Knight will also write a book about being held for more than a decade by Ariel Castro .  Personally, I don't know about this. I am still thinking about reading Hunting Season, which was recently featured on NPR . I saw the case on Fatal Encounters several months ago.  My ID addiction is showing. I don't care how many st

Book News You Can Use 11/22/13

WCBD-TV: News, Weather, and Sports for Charleston, SC Relax in Paradise Barbara Park , Doris Lessing ,  Charlotte Zototow , Sylvia Browne , John Egerton , Herbert Mitgang and Syd Field . The book world was surprised (again) Wednesday night when James McBride won the National Book Award for Fiction . Also, as ZoraToniMaya mentioned, Toni and Maya were on the same stage during the awards show . Shonda Rhimes will be publishing a book in 2015 .  Maybe she has a little free time now that Private Practice is over. George Carlin's daughter is writing a memoir based on the relationship of her famous father . HBO will be developing a show based out of Walter Mosley's Socrates Fortlow, with Laurence Fishburne in the lead.  So what happened to the Leonid McGill series that HBO was developing? One of Charleston's most famous residents will also be featured in a HBO adaption of a book . Terry McMillian speaks the truth in this video from the New York Times . In a su

Book News You Can Use 11/8/13

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St. Thomas, here I come! So, um.... why is Roots being remade ? This list about young adult books that have minority LGBT characters is EVERYTHING.  Speaking of young adult books, Ya'll Fest is this weekend . Terry Pratchett keeps writing despite having a rare form of Alzheimer's . The title of this book makes me laugh. Comparing book vs. movie: 12 Years A Slave edition . Brought to you by booksploitation. I am down for any book to movie adaptation that involves Julianne Moore . Issa Rae is working on a book ! Amazon has announced their best books of 2013 . Here is the list of the most famous authors from every state . Amelia Bedelia (or the lady that created her) represents my state! Pics from the Hurston-Wright Awards ! There will be no Book News You Can Use next week. I will be in St. Thomas for the National Conference on Health Disparities . I will be working, but hope I can at least sit on a hammock and read books while I'm the

Book News You Can Use 11/1/13

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Chain Letter Rules!! The Hurston/Wright Awards were given out last weekend in Washington, D.C. Speaking of the Hurston/Wright Foundation, they recently had some leadership changes . Sad that I missed Attica Locke in Spartanburg last week, but happy to see she has won the Ernest Gaines Award for Literary Excellence ! Congratulations! #woohoo Read bell hook's thoughts about the Lean In book and movement. How did I miss that Reese is going to be in the movie based on Wild? Sometimes, I think adults read into too much of things that kids enjoy. This is a perfect example. A documentary on Alice Walker will be screened at a upcoming film festival . Alice's daughter Rebecca talks about her new book with The Root . Dear Dr. Murrary: Do not write a memoir . I need for you to find out where Casey Anthony and George Zimmerman are hiding. And wherever they are, I need you to disappear there. FOREVER. Willie Nelson is writing a memoir . And Morrissey's autobiogra