This book is about ghosts. Ghosts of our past, ghosts of our future, ghosts we create, and ghosts we must suffer. Ghosts of the heart…What can we do…live with them, love with them, conquer them, nurture them, torture them, hope with them...remember them?Emotionally, this is a very difficult book t...
Beloved is the creepiest ghost story I have ever read. Of course this is a ghost story used as metaphor for how haunted these characters are by the past; haunted by their horrible experiences, slavery, violence, humiliation, and guilt. In the central instance the haunting is so powerful that it ta...
"BelovedYou are my sisterYou are my daughterYou are my face; you are meI have found you again; you have come back to meYou are my belovedYou are mineYou are mine"It's 6 o'clock in the morning and I have finished with one of the best books I have ever read in the course of my short life. I am sleeple...
Perfect example here of a book that I loved to read and is chock full of stuff and issues and craft and emotions and things to talk about...and yet, I am deep in the throes of not being too interested in writing reviews anymore. Which explains why this review is appearing two months after I finished...
I must represent the last generation of Americans to get through school and college without being assigned Beloved—so by not reading it until now I was spared the academic vivisection. I listened to it read by Toni Morrison, so everything that was there to get, I must've got.It's a hell of a book: c...
A powerful, beautifully written (ambiguous) ghost story about a mother & daughter in post-civil war era struggling to come to terms w/ their tragic past caused by slavery and reclaim their lives.
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