6/08/2010

Waiting Sitting Wishing... for the Soccer World Cup

The 2010 World Cup trophy travel case, commissioned by FIFA and designed by Louis Vuitton:

The Color Purple

One of the advantages of having to ride the subway everyday in NYC: you have time to read A LOT. Here is my last crush:




The Alice Walker’s novel received the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award. A few years later it was adapted into a film and musical. The book is about an abused and uneducated black woman’s life in rural Georgia during the 1930s.

"A saga filled with joy and pain, humor and bitterness, and an array of characters who live, breathe and illuminate the world."
Publisher's Weekly

It’s about oppression in general. I found this book very intimate and inspiring. It will give you a good illustration of the issues faced by minority women but it will also give you a sort of strength and encouragement to fight against oppression and injustice. The novel is well-written and really suspenseful. I recommend it!

Some quotes from the book to convince you a little bit more... :

"Well how you spect to make her mind? Wives is like children. You have to let 'em know who got the upper hand. Nothing can do that better than a good sound beating." Part 1, pg. 42

"Well how you spect to make her mind? Wives is like children. You have to let 'em know who got the upper hand. Nothing can do that better than a good sound beating." Part 1, pg. 42