Comments on: Reading Rainbow: Calling Out For Help http://blog.urbanobservation.com/2007/12/10/reading-rainbow-calling-out-for-help/ Mon, 08 Sep 2008 04:32:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Urban Observation | Blog http://blog.urbanobservation.com/2007/12/10/reading-rainbow-calling-out-for-help/#comment-4872 Urban Observation | Blog Tue, 15 Jan 2008 05:06:11 +0000 http://blog.urbanobservation.com/2007/12/10/reading-rainbow-calling-out-for-help/#comment-4872 [...] December, I asked, you, the blog audience, to recommend some books to read. I realized I hadn’t read a [...] [...] December, I asked, you, the blog audience, to recommend some books to read. I realized I hadn’t read a [...]

]]> By: Urban Thought http://blog.urbanobservation.com/2007/12/10/reading-rainbow-calling-out-for-help/#comment-4445 Urban Thought Fri, 21 Dec 2007 20:39:53 +0000 http://blog.urbanobservation.com/2007/12/10/reading-rainbow-calling-out-for-help/#comment-4445 <strong>ALL</strong>: Thank you for the suggestions. I will follow up on what I've selected for Q1 2008 in a seperate post. <strong>Ricardo</strong>: That is indeed the author of the book. Dude has no shame. <strong>Yobachi</strong>: I would have never believed it had I not seen it. ALL: Thank you for the suggestions. I will follow up on what I’ve selected for Q1 2008 in a seperate post.

Ricardo: That is indeed the author of the book. Dude has no shame.

Yobachi: I would have never believed it had I not seen it.

]]> By: Yobachi http://blog.urbanobservation.com/2007/12/10/reading-rainbow-calling-out-for-help/#comment-4424 Yobachi Thu, 20 Dec 2007 20:01:10 +0000 http://blog.urbanobservation.com/2007/12/10/reading-rainbow-calling-out-for-help/#comment-4424 LMAO! This Negroe wrote a book rolling blunts? Books, I’ll give you four different kind. Origins of the Civil Rights Movement by Aldon D. Morris The Great Contreversy by Ellen G. White The Mugging of Black America by Earl Ofari Hutchison The End of Work: by: Jeremy Rifkin LMAO! This Negroe wrote a book rolling blunts?

Books, I’ll give you four different kind.
Origins of the Civil Rights Movement by Aldon D. Morris
The Great Contreversy by Ellen G. White
The Mugging of Black America by Earl Ofari Hutchison
The End of Work: by: Jeremy Rifkin

]]> By: Dan-Sean Mankind http://blog.urbanobservation.com/2007/12/10/reading-rainbow-calling-out-for-help/#comment-4413 Dan-Sean Mankind Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:27:40 +0000 http://blog.urbanobservation.com/2007/12/10/reading-rainbow-calling-out-for-help/#comment-4413 I remember us talking about this. LOL. Great post! I have a book recommendation for you. The book that Russell Simmons put out this past summer entitled, "Do You". That is a very enlightening book. Also, Iyanla Vanzant has a book entitled, "Acts Of Faith" that is absolutely phenomenal in my opinion. I'm sure you'd take much from this book to aid in your personal growth. I remember us talking about this. LOL. Great post! I have a book recommendation for you. The book that Russell Simmons put out this past summer entitled, “Do You”. That is a very enlightening book. Also, Iyanla Vanzant has a book entitled, “Acts Of Faith” that is absolutely phenomenal in my opinion. I’m sure you’d take much from this book to aid in your personal growth.

]]> By: The Orange Phoenix http://blog.urbanobservation.com/2007/12/10/reading-rainbow-calling-out-for-help/#comment-4293 The Orange Phoenix Sat, 15 Dec 2007 18:04:03 +0000 http://blog.urbanobservation.com/2007/12/10/reading-rainbow-calling-out-for-help/#comment-4293 You know I've actually read that book - and it is quite good. . . Anyway on to the Books: -Eat, Pray, Love (I'm on the bandwagon) -Fortunate Son (Walter Mosley - anything by him is a good read) -Random Family (Growing up in the BX in the cracked out 80's) You know I’ve actually read that book - and it is quite good. . .

Anyway on to the Books:
-Eat, Pray, Love (I’m on the bandwagon)
-Fortunate Son (Walter Mosley - anything by him is a good read)
-Random Family (Growing up in the BX in the cracked out 80’s)

]]> By: Literanista http://blog.urbanobservation.com/2007/12/10/reading-rainbow-calling-out-for-help/#comment-4214 Literanista Tue, 11 Dec 2007 15:29:02 +0000 http://blog.urbanobservation.com/2007/12/10/reading-rainbow-calling-out-for-help/#comment-4214 Hi, I was thinking about this and trying to decide what you would enjoy. Then it occurred to me like two years back I read The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon, http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Wind-Carlos-Ruiz-Zafon/dp/0143034901/ref=pd_bbs_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197386791&sr=8-2 and couldn't stop telling people to read it! The writing is reminicent of Hemmingway and the story is sort of a story within a story. I think you will enjoy it. Cheers, Lit Hi,

I was thinking about this and trying to decide what you would enjoy. Then it occurred to me like two years back I read The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon, http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Wind-Carlos-Ruiz-Zafon/dp/0143034901/ref=pd_bbs_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197386791&sr=8-2

and couldn’t stop telling people to read it! The writing is reminicent of Hemmingway and the story is sort of a story within a story. I think you will enjoy it.

Cheers,
Lit

]]> By: invisiblewoman http://blog.urbanobservation.com/2007/12/10/reading-rainbow-calling-out-for-help/#comment-4207 invisiblewoman Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:12:29 +0000 http://blog.urbanobservation.com/2007/12/10/reading-rainbow-calling-out-for-help/#comment-4207 I just finished reading "How To Lose Friends and Alienate People" by Toby Young. It's an account of this British guy's experiences and delusions in New York while working at Vanity Fair and trying his best to be a "scenester"...it was a good read, pretty funny cause the guy was a total loser and didn't know it for years (which he ended up admitting himself). I just finished reading “How To Lose Friends and Alienate People” by Toby Young. It’s an account of this British guy’s experiences and delusions in New York while working at Vanity Fair and trying his best to be a “scenester”…it was a good read, pretty funny cause the guy was a total loser and didn’t know it for years (which he ended up admitting himself).

]]> By: Ricardo http://blog.urbanobservation.com/2007/12/10/reading-rainbow-calling-out-for-help/#comment-4199 Ricardo Tue, 11 Dec 2007 05:44:03 +0000 http://blog.urbanobservation.com/2007/12/10/reading-rainbow-calling-out-for-help/#comment-4199 LOL! Is that the author holding up the book!? I have not had to to read much. I wish I had a recommendation. I remember the show Reading Rainbow with LeVar Burton. Great stuff. LOL! Is that the author holding up the book!?

I have not had to to read much. I wish I had a recommendation. I remember the show Reading Rainbow with LeVar Burton. Great stuff.

]]> By: Ms. Q http://blog.urbanobservation.com/2007/12/10/reading-rainbow-calling-out-for-help/#comment-4198 Ms. Q Tue, 11 Dec 2007 03:54:49 +0000 http://blog.urbanobservation.com/2007/12/10/reading-rainbow-calling-out-for-help/#comment-4198 Depends on your interest. I read dang, a lot of books of all different kinds (well, haven't read Sci-Fi or Fantasy in a while). I can't recall all the ones I read this year and I KNOW I had some I loved. Non fiction: I liked "Blink" and "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell. Both very readable and easy to put down and pick up in that if you need something good to read in 30 minute bits. Personal development: "The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal" by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz "Vital Friends: The People You Can't Afford to Live Without" by Tom Rath - you could probably read this before the year is out! Very interesting and they have a website. Probably any of the John Bradshaw books ("Creating Love: The Next Great Stage of Growth", "Healing the Shame that binds you" etc etc). Not exactly light reading though. Fun reads: the Jack Reacher series by Lee Childs. I read, "The Enemy", "The Hard Way", and "Bad Luck and Trouble" and "Persuader" Ex-Military Alpha Male who's the master of the understatement along with the head-butt and various firearms. "Memoirs of a Geisha" by Arthur Golden - I read this years ago and it's amazing how true the voice of a young Japanese girl sounds! I know little about the "floating world" as I think the Geisha reside in and the book draws you right into that time and her life. "The Shipping News" by E. Annie Proulx - I think it won the Pulitzer. As a writer, I was impressed at how well crafted this book was. This makes it sound a bit yawn but she has a deft use of language and how words sounds to create feelings within the reader. I read this over 10 years ago but I still remember it. "Like Water for Chocolate" by Laura Esquivel - I think it's now a classic! I enjoyed it but it took me years to finally check it out of the library. I think it's one of those you have to be "in the mood" for. "White Noise" by Don DeLillo - very different type of book. The observations about mass media and the like still work for today's world. I didn't find it an easy read - it really made me think. I do like it. Again, you probably have to be in the mood! Do you have anything particular in mind? Depends on your interest. I read dang, a lot of books of all different kinds (well, haven’t read Sci-Fi or Fantasy in a while). I can’t recall all the ones I read this year and I KNOW I had some I loved.

Non fiction:

I liked “Blink” and “The Tipping Point” by Malcolm Gladwell. Both very readable and easy to put down and pick up in that if you need something good to read in 30 minute bits.

Personal development:

“The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal” by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz

“Vital Friends: The People You Can’t Afford to Live Without” by Tom Rath - you could probably read this before the year is out! Very interesting and they have a website.

Probably any of the John Bradshaw books (”Creating Love: The Next Great Stage of Growth”, “Healing the Shame that binds you” etc etc). Not exactly light reading though.

Fun reads: the Jack Reacher series by Lee Childs. I read, “The Enemy”, “The Hard Way”, and “Bad Luck and Trouble” and “Persuader”

Ex-Military Alpha Male who’s the master of the understatement along with the head-butt and various firearms.

“Memoirs of a Geisha” by Arthur Golden - I read this years ago and it’s amazing how true the voice of a young Japanese girl sounds! I know little about the “floating world” as I think the Geisha reside in and the book draws you right into that time and her life.

“The Shipping News” by E. Annie Proulx - I think it won the Pulitzer. As a writer, I was impressed at how well crafted this book was. This makes it sound a bit yawn but she has a deft use of language and how words sounds to create feelings within the reader. I read this over 10 years ago but I still remember it.

“Like Water for Chocolate” by Laura Esquivel - I think it’s now a classic! I enjoyed it but it took me years to finally check it out of the library. I think it’s one of those you have to be “in the mood” for.

“White Noise” by Don DeLillo - very different type of book. The observations about mass media and the like still work for today’s world. I didn’t find it an easy read - it really made me think. I do like it. Again, you probably have to be in the mood!

Do you have anything particular in mind?

]]> By: Jill http://blog.urbanobservation.com/2007/12/10/reading-rainbow-calling-out-for-help/#comment-4196 Jill Tue, 11 Dec 2007 03:21:14 +0000 http://blog.urbanobservation.com/2007/12/10/reading-rainbow-calling-out-for-help/#comment-4196 That does look like a fun conversation piece. :-) What kind of books? I liked Motherless Brooklyn (Lethem) for fiction. Nonfiction - I saw two books I'd LIKE to read but haven't (& thus can't recommend) but that looked interesting - The Wisdom of Crowds (Surowiecki) and More Sex is Safer Sex (Landsburg). Both those looked interesting. That does look like a fun conversation piece. :-) What kind of books? I liked Motherless Brooklyn (Lethem) for fiction. Nonfiction - I saw two books I’d LIKE to read but haven’t (& thus can’t recommend) but that looked interesting - The Wisdom of Crowds (Surowiecki) and More Sex is Safer Sex (Landsburg). Both those looked interesting.

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