40 Days to Power Living by Teresa Kay-Aba Kennedy

Power Living is a 40 Day intense look at your self. It took me 80 days to finish the book because I had to spend 2 weeks on every chapter. I highly recommend 40 Days to everyone. The book helps you to think about your dreams, helps you focus and asks 3 important questions that I keep close to my heart. The book delivers what it states on the cover “Transform your Mind, Body & Spirit and Think, Eat & Live on Purpose”.

Teresa writes: “Power is not defined by how much control you have over others, but how much control you have over your self”.

Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust by John Henrik Clarke

Afrikan Holocaust takes you on a historical journey. A real eye opener and a must read. There is a lot of information about Africa before slavery by the Europeans. It’s a different perspective then what my generation was taught in school.

Dr. Leonard Jeffries wrote: Professor Clarke’s analysis provides us with a perspective that lets us understand that slavery and genocide were institutionalized and systematized into a global system of domination, destruction and death which not only control land, labor and resources but colonialized information.

Un Monsieur Bien Mis - Jean Vautrin

Une ville de banlieue avec sa gare de banlieue, ses barres de béton, ses éboueurs noirs dans leurs uniformes fluo, ses ahènepéistes et ses trois-huit, ses bandes de bric et de broc et ses crânes trop rasés.

Un monsieur bien sous tous rapports file un balayeur des rues jusque dans l'ascenseur de sa cité-dortoir. Montent avec eux un camionneur balèze, un couple en bisbille, un petit rouquin avec son jeu japonais, un électeur de Le Pen, une jeunesse maghrébine...

Panne entre deux étages. Un cadavre de nègre découvert un peu plus haut quand les portes se rouvrent... Qui a joué du couteau dans le noir de la cabine?

Translation

A suburban town with its railway station of the suburbs, its concrete bars, the black garbage collectors in their fluorescent uniforms, and the too many shaved skulls.

A man follows a sweeper of streets to the elevator of his dormitory suburb. A couple in tiff, a small redhead with his Japanese game, a voter of Pen, a teenage girl takes up a truck driver are also in the elevator.

The elevator breaks down between two floors. The body of a Negro is discovered when the doors open again... Who played the knife in the black of the cabin?

Une Héritière en danger - Debbi Rawlins

An Heiress in danger - I haven’t touched a Harlequin Romance since I was 17 or 18, but I needed something easy to read in French. No matter what language, a Harlequin is a Harlequin. If you are learning a new language I recommend a Harlequin in that language. You will absolutely understand what they are talking about.

Strong gorgeous hunk saves beautiful damsel (albeit always dumb) in distress. During which they have sex (oh sorry make love), fall madly in love and live happily ever after.

He: Qu'est-ce que tu veux de moi? - What do you want of me?
She: Est-ce que tu m'aimes? - Do you love me?
He: Oui, répondit-il, incapable de lui mentir. - Yes, he answered, unable to lie to her.
She: C'est tout ce que je veux. - That’s all that I want.

We The Living by Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand wrote “We The Living” to tell the story of Communist Russia- The Revolution. She wanted to show the rest of the world what was really happening in Russia.

The story is extremely depressing. There is no light at the end of the tunnel. She argues that under the extreme control of a government that tries to bring about the idealism of Marxism, a country and its people will die. Everybody loses the rich and the poor. The Marxist ideal of everyone living on equal ground can never come true. The Revolution never lived up to the fair and equal society it promised. Before the revolution only the poor were exploited, now both the poor and the rich were exploited.

Man has to want to help his fellow man. He cannot be forced into it. People want to give what they want to give, not what they are told to give.

As I mentioned earlier the story is really dark, I had a difficult time completing the book, but I wished Rand showed a lot more of life before the revolution.