One of the things that I like so much about Goodreads in addition to the fact that it has exposed me to books from all over, is that it has also exposed me to people from around the world, both authors and others. These people, then, have turned me on or pointed me toward other books and authors th...
I read this book for a class; it was supposed to be my science fiction book, but it's not actually science fiction. It is, however, a book I'm really glad I read. I'd read a lot of wonderful things about Octavia Butler after she died, and the things I read about her writing made me feel like they'...
BkC10) KINDRED by Octavia E. Butler: Excellent!!I still agree with myself. And what better review for Valentine's Day than this time-travel novel in which a modern-day African-American woman is summoned by her slave-owning ancestor to rescue him at critical moments, and then must pimp her slave ance...
A young black woman with a good career and life is abruptly pulled back in time to save the life of a slaveowner's son. She tries to find meaning and balance in this constant shuttling through time, but the atrocities she experiences in the past color her present. This is an incredibly emotionally...
This is a deceptively simple and truly wonderful book. If you've read any reviews of it at all, and/or have not been living in a cave, you know the premise. A black woman of the 1970's inexplicably finds herself back in the antebellum south, living among the people -both black and white - who will...
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