”Dey gointuh make ‘miration ‘cause mah love didn’t work lak they love, if dey ever had any. Then you must tell ‘em dat love ain’t somethin’ lak uh grindstone dat’s de same thing everywhere and do de same thing tuh everything it touch. Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it t...
I read this book several years ago for a Literature class in college. I loved it so much. It's deep, moving and so beautifully written. I'll have to go back into it to give a better review but I remember it's a great book. I absolutely recommend this book to everyone.
So I've been reading through the Harlem Renaissance lately, that period between 1920 and 1940 that had this explosion of black literature. I read Allain Locke's The New Nego, a compilation with guys like Langston Hughes and Jean Toomer - great stuff. Really smart. And I read Jean Toomer's Cane, the ...
I had been dragging my feet on reading this book, thinking that Their Eyes Were Watching God fell into that category of books that are part of a well rounded education (like Lord of the Flies), but are not that enjoyable. After finishing Zadie Smith's On Beauty, a thought provoking book about race ...
I first read this book in college, it was an assignment for my English Lit class. At first I hated it the vernacular was strange to me and it was weird to see how I speak written down. By the end of the book I loved it and I was thankful she did use the language because it drew me completely into th...
I appreciated this book much more now that I read it in college as opposed to when I read it in high school. I think it is a pretty easy read that keeps you hooked without being too extreme. In this sense, it stays realistic to a point
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