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Later I got the opportunity to examine “If I Ran the Zoo” privately. Seuss’s ABC: “Big J, little J, what begins with J? Jerry Jordan’s jelly jar and jam begin that way.” I, too, liked to spout a line or two from the former’s “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” or the latter’s “We Real Cool.” But I also loved invoking Yertle the Turtle’s grandiose bellows (“I’m Yertle the Turtle!” “Oh, marvelous me!”) or a favorite rhyme from Dr. As a young adult, I was fond of reciting passages from his work with as much enthusiasm as other literary folks in my community quoted Langston Hughes or Gwendolyn Brooks. I grew up on his titles, which had popped regularly through the mail slot as offerings from a book club for beginning readers. I was a budding poet then, and would tell anyone who asked that my favorite poets were Henry Dumas, Smokey Robinson, and Seuss. As was our habit, I grabbed a pile of books, plopped down on some soft furniture, and began to read to him for an hour. While he painted and drew and made homemade paper, I took his 2-year-old brother to the library across the street. Louis and had just dropped off my 6-year-old at his art class. More than 30 years have passed, but I remember our encounter vividly. Initially confident that their local councilman, Chandler Flowers, would protect their small business and deny Goode building rights, they are shocked and betrayed when he green lights the project. Their business runs into trouble when Gibson Goode, a famous ex-NFL player now getting his fingers into the business world, seeks out a nearby plot of land to construct the second store in his budding chain superstore called Dogpile Thang. Their friendship is fast and relatively unusual: Nat is Jewish, and Archy is black, and each comes from very different families and systems of privilege (and lack thereof). When it begins, Archy and Nat are in their twelfth year as co-owners of Brokeland Records in north Oakland. The novel incorporates early-2000s current events, including the senatorial campaign of Barack Obama and problems of racism, poverty, and violence in urban areas. A “slice of life” novel, Telegraph Avenue’s focal point is its unique characterizations of the inhabitants of the two neighboring cities. The novel’s plot begins with Archy and Nat’s attempt to keep their used vinyl store from going out of business, then branches into several parallel subplots. Set in San Francisco and the north side of Oakland, California, it follows Archy Stallings, Nat Jaffe, and their acquaintances, whose lives become tied together, symbolized by the titular Telegraph Avenue which runs between both cities. Telegraph Avenue is a 2012 novel by American author Michael Chabon. The discussions surrounding the book dealt with several themes such as matters of translation, and the style of narrative employed in the novel. The Bangalore meet up was conducted by Samragni Dasgupta. The Sanskaari Girls Book Club read the novel in its monthly meet ups in Pune, Delhi, Bangalore and Mumbai. Written in Marathi, it was the debut novel of its author and soon was re-released in 2013, after being translated into English by Jerry Pinto. Set in the city of Pune, the story follows a pair of siblings, Tanay and Anuja, who fall in love with the with the same young man who comes to stay at their house in Pune as a paying guest. Released in 2013, Cobalt Blue deftly deals with the themes of sexuality, family and society. For its October read, Sanskaari Girls Book Club was joined by the Queer Resource Centre, One Future Collective in reading Cobalt Blue by Sachin Kundalkar. Qwilleran rents a room from Mountclemens and starts to take care of Koko, who has rather delicate taste in eating. Qwill visits Mountclemens and meets Koko, a male Siamese cat who appears to be able to read, but only backwards. The paper's resident art critic is the reclusive and decidedly unpopular one-handed man named George Bonifield Mountclemens III. Qwilleran became known as a journalist for covering crime, but his new job at the Flux is hardly so glamorous: he's working on the art beat. Jim Qwilleran is attempting to get his life back on track, starting with a new job his old acquaintance, Arch Riker, is taking a chance. He also meets the critic's cat, a Siamese named Kao K'o-Kung, Koko for short. His first assignment is the art beat where he meets a rather eccentric – and not very well-liked – art critic whom he befriends. In the first book of the series, the reader is introduced to James Mackintosh Qwilleran (Qwill), a former crime reporter turned newsman on The Daily Fluxion. The Cat Who Could Read Backwards is the first novel in Lilian Jackson Braun's The Cat Who. He reads me his favorite part, the ending when the Kabuliwala, named Rahmat, pulls a crumpled piece of paper out of his breast pocket. 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