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Reading, knitting, shopping.
The Talent Family
Heather's Favorites at NYPL:
Thinner Than Thou, by Kit Reed
The Girl Who Saw Lions, by Berlie Doherty
and
The Essential Rumi, by Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks
Mexican WhiteBoy , by Matt de la Peña
Delacorte Press, August, 2008
Danny and Uno form an unlikely friendship after Danny hits Uno’s brother with a baseball bat, and Uno repays the favor by giving Danny stitches. It’s rare to find an author with a voice that is resonant and clear yet remains completely unobtrusive and does not pander to his audience. De la Peña manages this delicate balance with a narrative that reels in the reader and succinctly paints the vivid, painful and compelling parallels between Danny and Uno in this coming of age story. Both Danny and Uno yearn for their fathers’ love and acceptance, while never really fitting into their worlds completely—Danny’s mother is white and his father is Mexican, while Uno’s father is Black and his mother is Mexican. Together they forge a bond that allows both to deal with the pain of being on the outside looking in. A page-turner.
Lydia Mendoza , Edith Piaf , Ween , Billie Holiday , Carole King , The Carpenters , Nomeansno , Gnarls Barkley , Blondie , Cat Stevens , the Delfonics , Dolly Parton , Willie Nelson , Neil Young , Neil Diamond , Outkast , Cat Stevens , Songs Ohia , The White Stripes , Angelo Badalamenti , Sarah Vaughan , Etta James , Fontella Bass , Tom Waits , etc. , etc .
David Lynch, John Waters, Hayao Miyazaki, Quentin Tarantino, Julie Taymor, Midnight Madness, After Hours, The Thin Man, etc., etc.
Lifetime Television Entertainment for Women. Is there anything else? Oh, yeah. Strangers with Candy, What's Happening, The Simpsons, Futurama, etc., etc.
The Uglies Trilogy (Uglies, Pretties, Specials) by Scott Westerfeld; Chris Crutcher (Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes, Whale Talk, etc.); Angela Johnson (Bird, A Cool Moonlight, etc.); Gone with the Wind (Margaret Mitchell); The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck); Dorothy Parker; Ring Lardner; David Sedaris, Amy Sedaris, Paul Dinello, Stephen Colbert; etc., etc.
Subs, Hoagies, Grinders...