by Jacqueline Woodson
I picked this up as a freebie from the publisher at the 2017 MLA convention. The main reason I picked it up was the raves that Woodson got from a panel about YA literature and race (which was literally the best panel I went to during that convention). Incidentally, this book has also been chosen...
Short vignettes out of the life of August as she adjusts to moving to Brooklyn from Tennessee. She tells of herself and her three friends as they grow up and grow apart. I am not sure what I feel about this book. It is an interesting writing style. I liked the short vignette style but do not feel I ...
I love Jacqueline Woodson's books. I've read quite a few of them now and I absolutely love them. Another Brooklyn is no exception. What pulled me in to this book the most was it's setting and writing. I grew up near Brooklyn and I always love reading books that take place in New York because it br...
The story is good, but it's really the writing that makes it magnificent. The book is written in a wistful sort of way and kind of rambles sometimes and keeps the reader in that feeling of being in her stream of consciousness. Its poetic in the way that it discusses some of the harder topics, like t...
This is a story about growing up female and black during the 70's in Brooklyn. It covers from preteen to adult, mostly focusing on the early teen years. Homelife, family, religion, parents, boys, poor people, addicts, kissing, dating, friendships, sex, drugs, music, attitudes, beauty, goals, basic...
I loved the way this novel was written. The story felt complete yet so few words were used to tell it. Short prose paragraphs made up each page, sometimes using just one or two sentences. It takes a master to do this, to orchestrate it so beautifully, meticulously picking out the precise words, be...
This isn't just a novel, it's a love letter to girlhood. Specifically, it's a gorgeously crafted, prose style, love letter to growing up as a black girl in 1970's Brooklyn. Anyone who has read Jacqueline Woodson's writing, knows that she has a knack for transporting her readers straight to wherever ...
When this very short book begins, August, an anthropologist, has attended the funeral of her father in Brooklyn, a place she had not returned to in a couple of decades. While riding the train to her father’s home to go through his things, she explores her memories, sparked by the sighting of one of...
Another Brooklyn is the new novel by Jacqueline Woodson, the author of Brown Girl Dreaming. At times, I find myself lost in this story and its emotions. At other times, however, I find myself focused on the structure of this very short book and lose that connection with the story itself. The book is...
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