SOHHreadMe: Kindred by Octavia Butler

[elle simple]

SOHH wer're reading Kindred by Octavia Butler (http://www.amazon.com/Kindred-Black-Writers-Octavia-Butler/dp/0807083054/sr=8-1/qid=1167125496/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-8993849-4289611?ie=UTF8&s=books)

subconcious
RettaS
caramellady85
offthabooks
elle simple
sexydeltagirl
Dragonfly

...and you?

Including tasty morsels of commentary by Cerebral Knievel and 7:30femmefatale (i.e. ppl who already read the book)!


If you can pick up the book by year-end, discussion of the first ~100 pages(?) starts first week in January :yes:


Post up if you wanna be into this too~ And also, if you find any interesting background on the book or the author?


From http://www.enotes.com/kindred/

Prior to the publication of her fourth novel, Kindred, Octavia Butler was primarily known only to fans of science fiction. While her first three novels—all part of the "Patternmaster" series—received favorable reviews, her work was marginalized as genre fiction. Since the 1979 publication of Kindred, however, Butler's work is known to a wider audience.

The novel focuses on many of the issues found in Butler's fiction: the abuse of power, the limits of traditional gender roles, and the repercussions of racial conflict. The science-fiction elements of the story are limited, however, to the unexplained mechanism that permits a twentieth-century African American woman to travel into the past. Each time Dana Franklin is drawn back into the early 1800s to save the life of her white ancestor, she learns more about the complex nature of slavery and the struggles of African Americans to survive it. The result is a powerful and accessible story that resembles a historical slave narrative—but one told from a modern perspective and in a modern voice.

Butler's exploration of this era has led many new readers to discover her work, from feminist critics to students of African American literature. These individuals have learned what fans of science fiction have long known: Butler crafts some of the most imaginative and thought-provoking fiction today. "In Kindred," Robert Crossley wrote in his introduction to the novel, "Octavia Butler has designed her own underground railroad between past and present whose terminus is the reawakened imagination of the reader."

[sexydeltagirl]

Please sign me up for the club please - I would love to join...

Ms. Butler passed away this year - A real blow to her fans but her imagination and great story telling will live on in her books....

[Innkyblott]

I'm in.

For the illiterates who may still want to enjoy this wonderful story (although, the book is better. The book is always better) you can listen to the audio drama at SciFi.com. (http://www.scifi.com/kindred/)

[Dragonfly]

Sign me up, and not just because the author went to my high school either...

[Innkyblott]

Sign me up, and not just because the author went to my high school either...


Name dropper. :dry:

[Cerebral Knievel]

I recommended this book to you clowns a looooooooong time ago....:mad:

and yes I'm vexed and I don't wanna be down with your club!!!!!!!!!!!

*slaps over platter of American Cheese slices and Vienna Sausages*

*sullies the punch bowl*

*steals peanut butter and jelly finger sammich platter*

:hmm:

[Cerebral Knievel]

LMMFAO!!
Bring the finger sammichs back!!!

I AIN'T!!

I'll consider em reparations for being casually ignored by you loveless floozies...

aight..y'all ain't floozies...but I'm keepin the sammiches...

[7:30femmefatale]

I recommended this book to you clowns a looooooooong time ago....:mad:
and yes I'm vexed and I don't wanna be down with your club!!!!!!!!!!!
*slaps over platter of American Cheese slices and Vienna Sausages*
*sullies the punch bowl*
*steals peanut butter and jelly finger sammich platter*
:hmm:
SMH@ this ol' "i want credit for this" ass clownshoes poutybaby.

i've read it, i'll discuss when everyone's ready to collab.

[Cerebral Knievel]

LOL@ Floozies
I'm shocked!! Truly truly shocked!!
*sticks thumb in sammiches while you aren't looking*

well...I was moved to strong language. :mad:

*uses lil indentions from thumbs to hold additional peanut butter and jelly*

[Dragonfly]

Name dropper. :dry:
The initial post said to drop interesting background on the author...I was just following directions.

[Innkyblott]

The initial post said to drop interesting background on the author...I was just following directions.


You're right.







I know a guy who knew this girl who bumped into Samuel R. Delany once. So there.

[subc]

I am disgusted by this abuse of sammiches.

I'm hopefully picking up the book this week.

[elle simple]

Please sign me up for the club please - I would love to join...
Ms. Butler passed away this year - A real blow to her fans but her imagination and great story telling will live on in her books....

yay, all the cool kids are doing it~

I'm in.

For the illiterates who may still want to enjoy this wonderful story (although, the book is better. The book is always better) you can listen to the audio drama at SciFi.com. (http://www.scifi.com/kindred/)

good looks Innky~ I'm gonna read it first then listen if I have time

Sign me up, and not just because the author went to my high school either...

and another one, yay! where did you go to school?

I'm on it. Next time put my name before Sub-C's. Thanks in advance.

haha um... next time for sure! she was the first pity post so, she got top billing LoL

I recommended this book to you clowns a looooooooong time ago....:mad:
and yes I'm vexed and I don't wanna be down with your club!!!!!!!!!!!
*slaps over platter of American Cheese slices and Vienna Sausages*
*sullies the punch bowl*
*steals peanut butter and jelly finger sammich platter*
:hmm:

LoL@"sullies"

*shields crudite and thin crust pizzas from the assault*

better late than never right? :hug:


i've read it, i'll discuss when everyone's ready to collab.

sa-weeet, it's like the book mafia in here now... literati indeed :cool:


I got the book. I started reading it....big mistake. *doesn't do work for the rest of the afternoon*

*reads while driving*

c/s LoL

I was up until 1 a.m. last night, it's addictive...



I was mixed up about the chapter numbering tho, it doesnt go straight through, there are named sections w/chapters w/in them... I guess just aim for around 100 pages or so?? really not sure how to avoid spoilers? thoughts?

wow @ a couple of the twists.....

[Cerebral Knievel]

I hope your copies are missing pages. :mad:

[7:30femmefatale]

I'm done the book and ready for discussion!!
oh really? well let me stop what i'm doing at work so we can discuss the book RIGHT now just because you finished early.

how many cars did you have to take out on the freeway during rush hour to finish the book so fast retta? how many??

[Cerebral Knievel]

:dry: Shut your damn ass up.

stub a toe!

[Cerebral Knievel]

Uhhhh Pay my cell phone bill!!!
:guilty:

Sell attitude on e-bay. You'll have your phone bill paid off in no time. :hmm:

[7:30femmefatale]

Guess who i'm NOT calling when it gets paid off?
guess who you're NOT calling anyway??! :hmm:


leave him alone. he has to save his money. :O

[7:30femmefatale]

Don't tell me what to do. I'll call who I damn well please!!
:hug:

[Cerebral Knievel]

Guess who i'm NOT calling when it gets paid off?

Ghostbusters? :confused:

[Cerebral Knievel]

guess who you're NOT calling anyway??! :hmm:
leave him alone. he has to save his money. :O
That Porsche isn't gonna buy itself :blush:

[Cerebral Knievel]

No. Actually it was Femme. But Ghosts and Femme both have the same pale faces :hmm:
I keed, I keed. :hug:

:laugh:

I'd dislike you if I didn't like you so much.

:hug: :hug:

[Cerebral Knievel]

Neither will the flat screen and wall mount for my bedroom. Hop to it. smh@ yall derailing this thread with fukkery.

I got you a Zenith Floor model with the wood panel box around it...and some brand new rabbit ears.

[Cerebral Knievel]

:thumbsdow :thumbsdow

And a black velvet painting of a Panther...

And a bead curtain for your door. Your room is shaping up nicely.

[7:30femmefatale]

Neither will the flat screen and wall mount for my bedroom. Hop to it. smh@ yall derailing this thread with fukkery.
clearly he hopes to muck this one up enough so that a new, fresh one has to be started for the actual "kindred" discussion.. and gee, i wonder who will be there first in line to start the new thread and take all the credit for it...???

[Cerebral Knievel]

clearly he hopes to muck this one up enough so that a new, fresh one has to be started for the actual "kindred" discussion.. and gee, i wonder who will be there first in line to start the new thread and take all the credit for it...???

shhhhhhhhhhh

[Cerebral Knievel]

Probably him, since he acts as if he's the first person to read the book ever.
Octavia Butler sent me the first draft because I was the only member of her fan club.

[elle simple]

Am I gonna have to separate you three??? :p

[elle simple]

If you're wondering who started the thread derailment it was Cerebral and Femme. I'm just here defending the book club. Real talk.

whatever you say Ma--Retta :O

RettaMarlo: "You want it to be one way. But it's the other way."

[subc]

back ON TOPIC and away from this blatant and insulting cess pool of e-flirtation...

there are absolutely no copies of Kindred in my city. and that's a direct quote from this guy at the book store.

so I got a friend in the states to mail me a copy.

all discussion halts until subc can participate.

[Cerebral Knievel]

If you're wondering who started the thread derailment it was Cerebral and Femme. I'm just here defending the book club. Real talk.

:dry:

I just sold your bed...you're back to sleeping on the weight bench.

[Cerebral Knievel]

Fukkin shyt!!! :sad: :mad:

you did it to yourself ma...this is tuff love right chea.

:hmm:

[Flipper_Purify]

So I was roaming Borders and found a copy of "Kindred" a customer decided to put down in the Hawaiian section. I'm in the book club! Chea!

[offthabooks]

aight I picked it up...read up to page 60 so far...good shyt

I'm down to discuss whenever everyone else has the book in hand

[subc]

.. :(

[elle simple]

Should we wait for the slack-tastic Canadianne or just start it up tomorrow or Friday as planned? subC-- you got an ETA on when the sled-dogs will make it across the praire to your homestead?


Found an interview w/Butler on NPR, her voice is very unique...
Octavia Butler's 'Kindred' Turns 25 (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1745712)

[subc]

Should we wait for the slack-tastic Canadianne or just start it up tomorrow or Friday as planned? subC-- you got an ETA on when the sled-dogs will make it across the praire to your homestead?


Found an interview w/Butler on NPR, her voice is very unique...
Octavia Butler's 'Kindred' Turns 25 (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1745712)

:hmm:

it's arriving on january 17th...amazon had some shipping issue that delayed it.

[7:30femmefatale]

:hmm:
it's arriving on january 17th...amazon had some shipping issue that delayed it.
:ohmy:

dang, a solid 2 weeks before you even get your copy, much less begin reading!!?

this can't be life/the book club!!

i'll wait for you.. but you better be glad that i like you.. :dry:

[subc]

:ohmy:
dang, a solid 2 weeks before you even get your copy, much less begin reading!!?
this can't be life/the book club!!
i'll wait for you.. but you better be glad that i like you.. :dry:

hah, no one has to wait, I'll have it read by the 19th and I can just come back and look at everyone else's discussion. this is only the first book in our book club...we're forging a legacy here.

with that being said, we might want to pick the next one NOW... :laugh: :(

[elle simple]

hmmmmm..... what are we gonna do here??

I got school starting next week and if you all arent careful, I'm gonna be writing a thesis based on what I'm learning: "We will work with critical concepts such as hegemony, ideology, commodity, organic intellectual, subaltern, public sphere, sign, frame, écriture, myth, sexual reification, gender, homosociality, performativity, nation, and orientalism to unpack and complicate other concepts that are often naturalized such as “culture,” “literature,” “knowledge,” “other,” “woman,” “desire,” “body,” “community,” “tradition,” “archive,” “postcolonial,” “indigeneity,” “place,” “text,” “performance.” :ohmy:

sike-your-mind! I cant even pretend I know what that means. ...but I will be getting kinda busy *gears turn in brain*

I guess I'd like to get this ball rolling... but could wait til next week if that's cool w/everyone? You can catch up, subC?! Speed reader, speed reader! "She's doing pushups with her eyeballs!!" Um, yea... and as you say, NEXT TIME, it'll be that much better.


oh yea and welcome aboard Flipper! I think ur the only dood reading this, besides our patron saint/ punching bag/ object of lust CK. Lucky you. :)