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Title: Blue Blood: An Ivy League Mystery by Pamela Thomas-Graham ISBN: 0-671-01671-7 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: April, 2000 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.4 (15 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: I can't wait to see the movie
Comment: I usually don't like the idea of seeing my favorite murder mysteries turned into movies, but by the time I finished reading "Blue Blood", I was ready to go to the video store and rent the movie!(hope one is in the works) Not only was this a clever story, but it was great to see a smart Nikki Chase go head-to-head with rich Yale alums as well as aggressive black ministers without losing her sense of humor and without turning into a ball-busting man-hating woman. Nikki is classy, smart and very funny. I first heard of author Thomas-Grahm when People Magaizine picked her first book "Darker Shade of Crimson" as "page-turner of the month", but I figured she'd only be able to write about life at Harvard--where she went and where she set the first book. But I went to Yale, and I can tell you she really got our school right. I'm embarassed to say that I was one of those white Yalies who really was afraid of the black people who lived outside campus in New Haven. The author balances the race issues, class issues and a supremely clever murder of the blonde, conservative professor that we all kind of loved to hate. I'm looking forward to the next volume in the author's "Ivy League Mystery Books". My husband went to Dartmouth, so we'll be on the look out.
Rating: 5
Summary: brilliant view of ivy league
Comment: After reading Thomas-grahm's first mystery at Harvard (Darker Shade of Crimson), I was eager to see if she could capture the conflicts of race and gender at Yale. She's done it brilliantly in "Blue Blood". The Harvard book was more of a challenge to read because it did not move as quickly as Blue Blood's story line. What I liked most about this book was that it really told you how black women have a foot in two worlds when they are trying to succeed in the mostly white and male world of the Ivy League. I know that there are a lot of black folks (including myself) who originally were suspicious of Thomas-Grahm's writing because we see her in TV interviews, on covers of business magazines and read her bio. I hate to admit it, but after reading about her 3 Harvard degrees, her Phi beta kappa, her Harvard Law Review, her lawyer/writer husband (he wrote about the black upper class--"Our Own Kind of People") her McKensey consulting firm partner stuff, her opera board and her first black running a division of NBC yadda yadda, I wanted to hate her because I was so jealous. Then I read her book and I said "Wow!" I realized that not only does she write really well, but it occurred to me that we're always complaining that talented blacks are never given their due. Well, I can say that here is a black renaissance woman that deserves what she's got. We should be proud of her rather than cutting her down. "Blue Blood" was a great book and it would be an even better movie. Thomas-grahm really understands how to write about the integrated world that so many of us middle class blacks have to deal with. She also seems to know a lot about the upperclass WASP world. Her books introduced me to a whole new world of campus intrigue. Great stuff.
Rating: 1
Summary: Nancy Drew
Comment: Nancy Drew meets Quasimodo! Proceed at your own risk if you are over 12 years old or have an IQ over 80. Unless you are stuck at the Mexico City airport like I was and can't find anything else on the shelf. An author with her credentials should know better.
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Title: The Cold Blue Blood : A Berger & Mitry Mystery by David Handler ISBN: 0312986106 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 13 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: I'll Be Your Shelter (Love Spectrum Romance) by Giselle Carmichael ISBN: 158571108X Publisher: Genesis Pr Ltd Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: Forest Of The Night by Evelyn Vaughn ISBN: 0373512139 Publisher: Silhouette Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $4.50 |
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Title: Back to Life by Wendy Coakley-Thompson ISBN: 0741409364 Publisher: Infinity Publishing.com Pub. Date: 01 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: At Last by Lisa Riley ISBN: 1585710938 Publisher: Genesis Pr Ltd Pub. Date: 15 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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