Often while I was reading Sing, Unburied, Sing, I had to hush my inner critic. Yes, Jesmyn Ward weaves some wonderful scenes and vivid sentences, but she really isn’t doing anything new. Yes, that climax is gut-wrenchingly affective, but it really isn’t anything that hasn’t been done before. It’s al...
With writing most often described as lyrical and lush, Ward's elegiac prose eases you gently into harsher truths. Having read Salvage the Bones, I was happy to see this new title offered on NetGalley, especially with that amazing cover. But despite the fact that I got the kindle version, I decided t...
A realistic book where ride-hopping ghosts feel as natural as a toddler vomiting on a long trip is a feat of nature. It simply should not be possible, but Jesmyn Ward achieves it with ease in SING, UNBURIED, SING. And can we just talk about that title? Everything about this book is pitch perfect. ...
”I will tie the glass and stone with string, hang the shards above my bed, so that they will flash in the dark and tell the story of Katrina, the mother that swept into the Gulf and slaughtered. Her chariot was a storm so great and black the Greeks would say it was harnessed to dragons. She was the ...
Oh, this book. I didn’t really have much of an idea of what to expect going into this one, and I’m glad. This is a story of family, and heritage, and ghosts, and racism, and growing up, and the bad things that happen to us, all of us — told in illuminate, sparkling prose. Sing, Unburied, Sing read...
Sing Unburied Sing, Jesmyn Ward. Author, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Chris Chalk, Rutina Wesley, narrators This book is very hard to read; aside from the fact that the subject matter is current, as well as historic, it is also about the horrific brutality, that was and still is, often inflicted upon a peop...
Thanks to NetGalley and to Scribner for providing me with an ARC copy of this book that I freely chose to review. Sometimes, I’d try to write them down, but they were just bad poems, limping down the page: Training a horse. The next line. Cut with the knees. It stays with me, a bruise in the memory ...
4.5 StarsThis was the second book this week I've read that took place in a backward town that hasn't quite caught up to the 21st Century. And, like the other one, I loved this one.Jojo is a great character who does a lot of the narrating of his story in this book. He's such a sweet child and the res...
What a read. I found myself thinking about these characters even when I was not reading the novel. This novel is about racism, injustice, family and about maturity. I liked the notion of the gifts that some of the characters exhibited as I felt it added wisdom and complexity to these characters. I w...
Ugh. What a disappointment. I read this book for my reading challenge thinking it was going to be good, considering it was a winner of the National Book Award but, thought the narrative was interesting enough to keep me reading, I hated the main protagonist from page one. She was childish, selfish...
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