G O L D I E. Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Essayist, golf addict + uncommitted runner. @thedailybeast @rollingstone, et al.
Air Force Handbook 1: Airman
U. S. Air ForceG O L D I E.Anna Mae dropped out of Sumner to sing with Ike and my mother, Mary Alice, left soon after in 1958 to marry an Air Force airman. My brother Donnie was born the following year.
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Giovanni's Room
James BaldwinG O L D I E.“I had no secrets, nobody could blackmail me. You didn’t tell me, I told you.” -James Baldwin in a long-buried 1979 ABC News interview on Giovanni’s Room and why it was important that he tell his own story.
Paperback, 2013
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya AngelouG O L D I E."When a book is compared to Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and Tara Westover’s Educated, it has to deliver. Taylor’s memoir does just that...reads almost like a novel...the dialogue shimmers with complexity...evocative, harrowing and beautiful..." @LibraryJournal https://t.co/pgOcewunQI
Paperback, Mass Market, 2009
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Remember: The Journey to School Integration
Toni MorrisonG O L D I E.With my memoir on the way, I had the most beautiful dream last night: Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou, (and two more women writers I cannot remember) showed up. I thanked Dr. Angelou for talking about my first book in an interview back in August 2005. cc: @johnglynnbooks @WMEBooks https://t.co/UZM7PgnJDX
Hardcover, 2004
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Educated: A Memoir
Tara WestoverG O L D I E."When a book is compared to Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and Tara Westover’s Educated, it has to deliver. Taylor’s memoir does just that...reads almost like a novel...the dialogue shimmers with complexity...evocative, harrowing and beautiful..." @LibraryJournal https://t.co/pgOcewunQI
Paperback, 2022
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Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: A Casebook
Maya AngelouG O L D I E."When a book is compared to Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and Tara Westover’s Educated, it has to deliver. Taylor’s memoir does just that...reads almost like a novel...the dialogue shimmers with complexity...evocative, harrowing and beautiful..." @LibraryJournal https://t.co/pgOcewunQI
Paperback, 1999
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Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate
Bob WoodwardG O L D I E.Years ago, I read SHADOW by Bob Woodward. It's premise was post- Watergate there were new checks future abuses of power that had an enduring impact on presidents and the country. In so many way, the Trump era didn't simply turn the clock back. It busted it.
Paperback, 2000
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Love
Toni MorrisonG O L D I E.“Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly..." -Toni Morrison
Paperback, 2005
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Sounder: A Newbery Award Winner
William H. ArmstrongG O L D I E.Granddaughter is reading SOUNDER, one of the very best YA novels ever written. I had forgotten how the book hit me. I am sitting nearby just in case. https://t.co/1lWdjdb1FK
Paperback, 2019
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Ordinary Girls: A Memoir
Jaquira DĂazG O L D I E."… at once candid and devastating. Writing with clarity and elegance, Taylor has crafted a memoir about finding peace, hope, and love after surviving unspeakable violence. This book will stay with me a long long time."—Jaquira DĂaz, author of Ordinary Girls: A Memoir https://t.co/pgOcewLYIg
Paperback, 2020
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book