Are we choosing a book for September???

Ideas for themes? Nominations?

I am reading Catch-22 right now.

Has anyone else finished Orange Laughter yet ( Read more... )

I have heard Wide Sargasso Sea referred to as "just another Jane Eyre."  When I was reading Jane Eyre, it was recommended that I read Wide Sargasso Sea after.

I could not disagree more!!!  I honestly did not finish Jane Eyre, but from the 60% I did read of it, I cannot see how the stories are similar.  Do you agree or disagree?

What I loved most ( Read more... )

Hey guys,

For the past two weeks i have been at The 16th World Student and Youth Festival the theme this year was " For Peace and Solidarity we fight against Imperialism and War". It was truly excellent.

I know it is late but the book that won the poll was Orange Laughter by Leone Ross. Has anyone started to read any of the books on the poll ( Read more... )

Hey guys we need a someone to vote to break the tie for the book of the month.

So if you haven't voted please Click Here to vote

Poll The August Book Poll

hey members,
The poll will be up within the next day or two. A friend of mine is going to post it for me since i haven't renewed my paid membership yet.

But the books to choose from are:

Louisiana by Erna Brodber
Orange Laughter by Leone Ross
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

Books Descriptions

Hi everyone,
Happy saturday.

As of today our maintainers are as follows:

peacefulbeauty(malaika)- p.s. awesome founder

medusaofticun(veronica)- not an active maintainer per say. think of her like a goddess, distant but lurking. She did unmeasureable amounts for the community in its earlier times so she will always have a space here.

New Maintainers

thatgirlsylvia(Sylvia)

savetheworld504( ( Read more... )

I'm Jennifer.  I have recently become a Moderator for this community.  Welcome to our new members!

The following books have been nominated under the category of Caribbean Authors for the month of August.  Since we did get several nominations (thank you to those who nominated) the following have been selected:

• Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
• Orange ( Read more... )