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I would like to start off by saying that I’ve loved all of the books by these two authors. They are usually very entertaining, the story line is easy to follow & you truly get to know the characters. I was so anxious for this new release but I was truly disappointed. The story was very hard to follow & I constantly skipped paragraphs because there was way too much detail. Normally detail adds to the storyline & helps you to visualize the characters, get to know their background, visualize the location & how it all ties into the storyline. I just didn’t find that to be true with this book. The writing doesn’t seem like the authors that I’m used to reading…
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I spent my early childhood in Harlem, and this book felt like home. It’s beautiful! It made me laugh and get misty eyed all at once. I think that with all the negative publicity Harlem gets it’s important (especially for children who live there) to see their home portrayed with kindness and affection. To see a celebration of who and what’s there now, with due respect to (but not focus on) what was there when their great-grandparents were kids. A celebration that doesn’t include hate, gunfire and/or gangsters.
When was the last time *your* child saw something about a black neighborhood that didn’t preach, didn’t assume you wished you lived in Africa and wasn’t about gangs, rappers or drug violence?
When you live in New York City, you start viewing picture books that take place there with an especially critical eye. Sometimes this can be a good thing, like when a book draws a subway stop incorrectly or fails to acknowledge the correct placement of the Central Park Mall. Other times, it’s a handicap. The New York Public Library’s 2004 list of 100 Picture Books Everyone Should Know included Bryan Collier’s 2000 ode to Harlem, “Uptown”. Upon reading through it, I wondered why anyone would concentrate a picture book on such a specific area. What interest could this possibly hold for kids living in, oh say, Iowa or Nebraska? How could the author be so vain as to think that by zeroing in on a neighborhood, others would understand why it’s important? Then I took a step back. I remembered that there are hundreds of books that do what “Uptown” has done. They define a neighborhood, a block, a city, or even a nation so that the children reading the book will be transported to entirely new geographical locations. If I lived anywhere else BUT New York I would have instantly recognized the charms of “Uptown” upon first setting eyes on it. Fortunately, I’ve mended my ways and can tell you truly that for a spot on description of a unique cultural place and time, Bryan Collier has Harlem’s number.
Our narrator is a young boy who knows Uptown like the back of his hand. In his words we hear all the different things that he identifies with his home. Uptown is everything from chicken with waffles to barbershops filled with men in hats. There’s jazz and weekend shopping on 125th street. There’s girls wearing identical outfits on their way to church and “the orange sunset over the Hudson River”. Finally, when all is said and done, there’s just one thing the boy can truly say about this world. “Uptown is Harlem… Harlem world, my world. Uptown is home”.
Using a hodge podge of mixed media in the form of watercolors and collages, Collier makes an array of complicated and highly detailed images out of fabrics and photographs. The brownstones that line the streets (described, deliciously, in a sentence that compares them to chocolate) are complex combinations of images that blend seamlessly with the rest of the book. Our hero has a very cool attitude about him too. Sometimes he’s sitting on a chair eyeing photographs of his grandparents’ wedding day. Sometimes he’s shooting hoops. Sometimes he’s just sitting listening to the Harlem Boy’s Choir. Whatever the case, as long as you’re in his presence you know he has a handle on every situation. This narrator is, ultimately, a reliable one. Surrounded by an organized muddle of straight and crazy images, you know he’s at home in this raucous wonderful city.
Kids will like this book. Whether you’re a Midwestern suburban homeowner, a Texan working the fields, or an L.A. sun worshipper, this book will still speak to you. It doesn’t matter if you’ve never even set foot in New York City. It doesn’t matter if you’ve, until this moment, avoided reading books about cities to your kids because you think they’ll be confused by them. Regardless of your situation in life, “Uptown” will still speak to you and touch you in some way. This is a book about belonging to a culture of like-minded individuals. It’s ultimately a celebration of a home. And whether you’re comfortable with that or not, it’s well worth the struggle. I think you’ll find it a delight.
i’ve read all of their books and this was a disappoinment and a slow read.
It’s really sad when you can’t rely on your own family. This is what caused Avery Lyons, the heroine of this tale, to stay away from home for so long. When she was visiting her cousin Dwight’s college one weekend something traumatic happened to her and the one person she thought would jump to her defense, Dwight, neglected his duty. They had been so close, more like brother and sister than cousins, but that was the penultimate moment for Avery, and Dwight’s lack of support, along with the lack of support from the other men in the family, caused Avery to lose faith in them. After college she took a job that allowed her to travel the world and, except for her mother, she willingly lost contact with her family. Now, however, she is called back to New York and Harlem when her mother is in a serious car crash. When her mother passes away, Avery is devastated. She takes six months off from her job in order to get herself together. Lucky for her, her former best friend Alicia (my favorite character), whom she’d lost touch with, is there to help her. Soon, Avery learns that she has inherited everything her parents worked so hard for over the years. Among the assets is a building on 111th Street that her cousin Dwight needs in order to complete construction on a huge project in Harlem, Dixon Plaza, named after his real-estate mogul father whom he has never measured up to. At first Avery wants to simply get rid of the building, then she learns more about the tenents. And with the aid of a handsome reporter, Jazz Christmas, she learns that there might have been dirty deals done in order to make Dixon Plaza happen. Avery has to decide what would be best for tenents, whom she later learns, her parents actually cared about. As for her cousin Dwight, he has problems of his own concerning a certain dominatrix. This was another entertaining tale from the duo of Grant and DeBerry.
These authors have always written great books, have a large following, and get some good marketing, considering…I’ve always enjoyed their stories, and have purchased all of them so it wasn’t a stretch that I’d read Uptown. But as I struggle to even finish the book I have to ask what happened? This book is just boring, and too much is going on with nothing happening at the same time. There are very few books that I don’t finish, and luckily I have a Kindle, so maybe I’ll go back and finish it one day. Hopefully I’m all wrong and that it just explodes in the ending. I doubt it, but I’ll give these authors another chance. Everyone is entitled to one mess up, and Uptown is theirs.
I have read all of DeBerry and Grant’s novels, and this is my favorite since their first one (which I have read two or three times and will read again). They maintain tension well, tell a story full of history and current events, and create real characters with opinions and feelings. I like a page-turner with heart, with a mix of good and bad personality traits in the characters, and I felt like this book delivered.
I have read all of DeBerry and Grant’s novels, and this is my favorite since their first one (which I have read two or three times and will read again). They maintain tension well, tell a story full of history and current events, and create real characters with opinions and feelings. I like a page-turner with heart, with a mix of good and bad personality traits in the characters, and I felt like this book delivered.
i’ve read all of their books and this was a disappoinment and a slow read.
It’s really sad when you can’t rely on your own family. This is what caused Avery Lyons, the heroine of this tale, to stay away from home for so long. When she was visiting her cousin Dwight’s college one weekend something traumatic happened to her and the one person she thought would jump to her defense, Dwight, neglected his duty. They had been so close, more like brother and sister than cousins, but that was the penultimate moment for Avery, and Dwight’s lack of support, along with the lack of support from the other men in the family, caused Avery to lose faith in them. After college she took a job that allowed her to travel the world and, except for her mother, she willingly lost contact with her family. Now, however, she is called back to New York and Harlem when her mother is in a serious car crash. When her mother passes away, Avery is devastated. She takes six months off from her job in order to get herself together. Lucky for her, her former best friend Alicia (my favorite character), whom she’d lost touch with, is there to help her. Soon, Avery learns that she has inherited everything her parents worked so hard for over the years. Among the assets is a building on 111th Street that her cousin Dwight needs in order to complete construction on a huge project in Harlem, Dixon Plaza, named after his real-estate mogul father whom he has never measured up to. At first Avery wants to simply get rid of the building, then she learns more about the tenents. And with the aid of a handsome reporter, Jazz Christmas, she learns that there might have been dirty deals done in order to make Dixon Plaza happen. Avery has to decide what would be best for tenents, whom she later learns, her parents actually cared about. As for her cousin Dwight, he has problems of his own concerning a certain dominatrix. This was another entertaining tale from the duo of Grant and DeBerry.
These authors have always written great books, have a large following, and get some good marketing, considering…I’ve always enjoyed their stories, and have purchased all of them so it wasn’t a stretch that I’d read Uptown. But as I struggle to even finish the book I have to ask what happened? This book is just boring, and too much is going on with nothing happening at the same time. There are very few books that I don’t finish, and luckily I have a Kindle, so maybe I’ll go back and finish it one day. Hopefully I’m all wrong and that it just explodes in the ending. I doubt it, but I’ll give these authors another chance. Everyone is entitled to one mess up, and Uptown is theirs.
Wonderful music here, for sure. Half the tunes are Harold Arlen songs and the other half Duke Ellington (or Duke-associated) pieces. What impresses most is the freshness these “old-timers” bring to the music, selections they could prpbably play in their sleep. But they make it sound like it’s a first outing. BETWEEN THE DEVIL … is taken medium-tempo and has a snappy, crisp feel to it rarely heard these days. LET’S FALL IN LOVE is also medium-tempo and has excellent Mundell Lowe guitar work. The quickest track is IT DON’T MEAN A THING, and Previn’s playing is as close to Oscar Peterson’s one could get without being a direct copy – marvelous! THINGS AIN’T WHAT THEY USED TO BE is done medium-slow and with a stacatic, punchy flavor that is very ear-catching. This is a most enjoyable CD of three masters delivering superb music to the best of anyone’s ability. Definitely worth checking out.