So this one is all about character. I kept expecting a mystery to unravel, like Beloved, but there was no mystery. The last chapter, Florens's mother's chapter, was maybe supposed to have been a revelation? Because obviously, Florens didn't understand her mother's choice, or it wouldn't have shap...
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. --Robert FrostHomeless: Ladysmith Black MambazoI start with a quotation and a musical backtrack that seem somehow fitting, and because I have to start somewhere. In A Mercy, all homes are temporary and dangerous; the most...
For now--4. [UPDATED to 5. I actually on a whim started rereading, and before I knew it was on about 50, and, yeah, it's amazing.)] This was amazing, and I kind of parcelled it out as a reward in small chunks each night, after drowning in the grading of papers.... It may climb to 5, but give me a f...
Don't you just hate it when others get a joke you don't? Find meaning in a mundane object? Discover the hidden image in those pictures you stare into? Love a book that really isn't all that wonderful?"Powerful." "Spellbinding." "Amazing." "A masterpiece." "Magnificent." "Astonishing." These are all ...
This is a devastating look not only at the slave experience in the 17th century, but of various forms of bondage and of the place of women in that world. While skin color may have defined one sort of servitude, gender and class define others. Yet there are some ways to find some space between the ba...
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