Wow. "The Color Purple" definitely holds up. I loved the movie when I saw it as a kid and I read the book for the first time in college. At the time I remember being shocked that it was a book. My professor at the time called Stephen Speilberg a coward for not depicting Shug and Ms. Celie's relation...
Alice Walker’s The Color Purple has a reputation. Everyone someone asked what I was reading this week, they mostly responded with an appalled, “Why?” The book (and the movie) has cut such a swath across American culture that even people who haven’t read the novel know that it’s about terrible abuse ...
Set in the Deep south Georgia, And I can only think in 1920s or 1930s? We meet Celie and her sister. Right off the bat Celie drops a line in the book that rips you to your core of what she has to deal with. The entire book is told through Diary Entries, This book pulled at my heart strings. Because...
When I have a ho-hum attitude about a well-received book that I expected to like, I have to wonder what I missed. The Color Purple was supposed to be great. Many reviewers I tend to agree with gave the novel their highest accolades. Typically, I agree with these sorts of books--Beloved and Ruby are ...
This was the first time I had read this classic despite it being on my radar for a looooong time. (I haven't seen the film either...) I have quite a few thoughts about this novel. In fact, I ended up taking notes so that I could let the story sink in a little further before I wrote up my final revie...
When I initially picked this up, I found it hard to get used to the lingo used. Not one for audiobooks usually, I felt that I needed to hear Alice Walker retelling her story. This made it easier to read when I did pick up the ebook while I was out and about without access to the audio files. There i...
I felt the same awe at rereading this wonderful book as I did when I first read it so many years ago. The same social issues are still prevalent today: child and domestic abuse, racial discrimination, women's struggle for equality, and homosexuality. It is a story of love overcoming the misery and i...
I don't even know what I just read. This was stunning. Beautiful. Amazing. It really got under my skin.Now, the book is written entirely in letters, and 80% of the writing is from an African-American woman, meaning it's written in the way you speak. That takes some getting used to! That being said, ...
I can't find the exact words in English to describe how beautiful I think this book was. Trying to avoid spoilers I will say: So crude and direct but so real and true. I couldn't help but to suffer with and for its characters. It amazed me all the pain a person can bear not only physically but psych...
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