More so than Native Son, Black Boy is Richard Wright's masterpiece. The book is Wright's autobiography about growing up poor and black under the institutionalized racism of the South prior to the Civil Rights movement.
I listened to Black Boy by Richard Wright for this month's bookclub read. Wonderfully narrated, this is Wright's biography of growing up black in the South during the 1920s and 1930s. Wow, what a powerful book! I am definitely glad I read this book and I can see why this is required reading for s...
Having a difficult time with this book. I'm reading and reading, story after story, experience after experience-- is that the point? Just to tell his story? For some reason I thought this was a novel and not an autobiography.
I do like this series. Each book last half of a year in Alice's life. This, the second installment of her Junior year, did not disappoint. I like the characters, the situations mostly ring true, and the messages are not delivered via baseball bats. There are perhaps no surprises, but there's somethi...
This book feels like 2 books put together. The first one, about his younger life and much longer than the second one (thankfully), is incredible. This is one of those books they sometimes make you read in high school, which is how I came across it, but thank god they did! Wright's writing style in t...
I may never finish this. Getting through the first two sections was a slog. Veronica and I talked a lot about it as we were going on (she was reading it for school), and it is clear To me that i fundamentally did not get it. Veronica said the third section was good, and I believe her, because our ta...
The unfolding of this story has the inevitability of a car stuck on a railway line with an express train hurtling towards it. You know what's going to happen, you don't want it to happen, you can't look away while it happens. When the smash comes, it's still a massive shock. I caught myself mutterin...
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