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Teach Yourself Nepali Complete Course by Michael Hutt

My review

mostly it just sits next to my bed, glaring at me, balefully.


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experiment with new interwebs thing...

oh man! this is fun!! i can just copy and paste the clicky clicky right into the word box thing. wheeeee.
anyway, i read this book in one sitting on saturday...

The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood by Ta-Nehisi Coates

My review

rating: 4 of 5 stars
beautifully lyrical memoir and important commentary through a very personal lens on the shifting paradigms of black american masculinity.
see also:
"globalization and race" (Ed) Clarke
"beyond beats and rhymes" (documentary film) byron hurt


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your new imaginary boyfriend

if he's not already.

junot diaz, author of the INCOMPARABLE "brief and wondrous life of oscar wao", is charming and witty and insightful and, well, wonderful. this should be required listening.