bookshelves: lit-richer-jan-2016, winter-20152016, pulitzer, boo-scary, gothic, ghosties-ghoulies, historical-fiction, nobel-laureate, slaves, north-americas, us-ohio, us-kentucky, us-delaware Recommended to Bettie☯ by: Laura Recommended for: BBC Radio Listeners Read from December 27, 2015 to Jan...
In the troubled years following the Civil War, the spirit of a murdered child haunts the Ohio home of a former slave. This angry, destructive ghost breaks mirrors, leaves its fingerprints in cake icing, and generally makes life difficult for Sethe and her family; nevertheless, the woman finds the ha...
Beloved, I felt, at one point, as though you were flaying me – repeatedly striking me with the details of Sethe's story, as they were revealed in layers, by her, by others. Each lash landed from a slightly different angle; each one dug a little deeper into my flesh. I’ve read novels about slavery,...
Not an easy read, in more than one sense. I think maybe Morrison was at times too oblique, which I'd ordinarily see as a flaw, but might be a mercy here. I'm still not sure exactly what was done to Sethe, or maybe it's just hard to accept what I think happened. It's a brutal, harrowing book at times...
Beautifully written. Until part 3, and something clicked. And then it did not work that well for me anymore.Nevertheless, yes, still one of the best proses I've ever read. I borrowed this book from the library, a first edition and it seems to have many avid previous readers. There are underlines, no...
Beloved has been more quickly and thoroughly canonized than any other modern book, so and because it suffers from two curses. The first is the curse of the classic itself, what you might call the Moby-Dick curse: everyone read it too early so no one liked it. It's not exactly difficult (nor exactly ...
“Darkness is stronger and swallows them like minnows.” - Toni Morrison, Beloved“Beloved” is a beautiful, haunting story that is set around the time following the slavery emancipation declaration. It’s mysterious and supernatural, as well as being a love story, a tale of horror, forgiveness, loss an...
I've read first 50 pages of this book and I'm utterly confused. The writing is strange. I'm glued to the pages, but I have no idea what is going on. I even watched an interview with her about this book, hoping it would help a bit, but it didn't. She said she wanted to achieve this, have her readers ...
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