July’s Recommended Books
(2009) Lyah B. LeFlore
Blue Reynolds wants to be the hottest club promoter in Washington area. But will he and his friends, Collin and Whiteboy, make it in the treacherous world of hip-hop when they're given a chance to bring their game to one of the biggest names in the business? Played out in the ghettos and posh suburbs of D.C., author Lyah LeFlore's Young Adult novel The World is Mine explores the complicated and twisted roles that friendship, trust, and ambition play in Blue's parallel worlds of high school and the music industry.
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is Book is Broken: The Broken Social Scene Story
(2008) Stuart Berman
When the self-described "beautiful mess" Broken Social Scene formed in 1999, they presumably had no idea what a huge impact they would have on the independent music scene in Canada. Yet over the last decade, BSS has not only released a handful of incredibly influential albums, but has also served as a launching pad for some of this country's most recognizable independent musicians. In This Book is Broken, veteran Eye Magazine reporter Stuart Berman chronicles the rise of BSS through short essays, photos, and countless interviews with BSS members and the many other musicians, artists and journalists who have been pulled into the bands' orbit.
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