Beloved: Pulitzer Prize Winner (Paperback)

from rainpebble

1st read: This story creeped me out but I loved it and found it fascinating at the same time. I will read it again. 2nd read: The first half of the story I found very difficult to get into. I liked all of the characters and I love how it is written but I just could not concentrate and follow the ...

from Donna828

This is a book about the sorrow and suffering under slavery as seen through the eyes of Sethe and Paul D. They were fellow slaves on the ironically named "Sweet Home" farmstead in Kentucky. They both suffered severe physical and mental scars which are revealed slowly and painfully in flashbacks o...

from quaintlittlehead

This book is remarkable in its ability to present slavery in a way that does not make it an "us vs. them" issue; whoever you are, and whatever your race, you find yourself squarely in the characters' shoes. And these shoes are so varied that no one individual in the book paints slavery as a caric...

from MoniqueReads

Before I get to a review I have a story to tell. When I was growing up, I lived in a mostly white town. In fact, I think there was only one other black family in the whole town. So, my grandmother felt the need to constantly give me books written by black authors, and try to force me to read them...

from santhony

This Pulitzer Prize winning novel is certainly not the kind of book I would ordinarily take on. Written by Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison, it can be a chore at times, but nevertheless was surprisingly able to keep my attention throughout. The setting is immediate post Civil War Ohio, with numerous ...