I think the time has come to finally read Beloved after loving so many other Toni Morrison novels... #currentlyreading
CarolynM I'm supposed to be reading this for my book group but I am putting it off 1w
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I think the time has come to finally read Beloved after loving so many other Toni Morrison novels... #currentlyreading
It‘s day seven of #bannedbooksweek2019 and I thought I‘d finish it with Beloved. The crimes that got this book challenged are slavery & violence. So I guess someone thought that the depiction of slavery is not positive enough? WTF?
7 days 7 covers - day 2
Got any reading plans in place for September 22nd - 28th?! #books #bookaddict #bannedbookweek
pickA great read from an amazing author who passed away this summer. Well written .. beyond sad .. worthy of the Novel Prize!!
Due to my lack of reading recently (a 9-month-old baby keeps me busy) I have made a goal of reading #10HoursAWeek Challenge starting Sunday morning through Saturday night. Would love anyone who has trouble reading as much as they'd like to join me or let me know their own goal. It's nice to be held accountable.
Would you call this book magical realism? Supernatural? Something else?
(Photo purely for ears and toebeans) #catsoflitsy
pickI don‘t think I‘ve ever read a book like this before. It‘s heartbreaking in how real it is.
“Hurt?”
“A touch.”
“Good for ya. More it hurt, more better it is. T‘ain‘t nothing heal without pain, y‘know.”
Carne fritas. #puertorriqueno #audiocooking
“But if her shining was not for him, who then? He had never known a woman who lit up for nobody in particular, who just, did it as a general announcement.” Well captured, Toni Morrison, and also, 🤨
#malegaze #audiobook #audiocooking
This was my first #bookhaul post here at Litsy. A little more than two years after, only three of them are read 🙈 (Beloved, The Blind Assassin and They Shoot Horses, Don‘t They?). Still want to read the rest of them, hopefully soon 🤞🏻
Fun idea @Lcsmcat 😊
#bookhaulchallenge
#toomanybookstoolittletime
pickRest In Peace.
Glad to have only now encountered this book. As a mother. I feel like to say anything else about it would be to rob it of some of its power.
A recent purchase in memory of Toni Morrison. Although there are many covers of this book available, this Vintage 2004 edition is a favorite. #treasurefound
The only “problem” with TM narrating her books is that I sometimes get lost in the cadence of her speech rather than hearing the words she‘s saying. So exquisite, on every level.
pickHauntings are often explained as a spirit returning because of an earthly trauma so intense that the sheer force of it propels the wronged soul back to life. This novel doesn't just reference that lore, it inhabits every part of it: how it feels for both the soul and the haunted. And Morrison also depicts how the living can be said to be haunted by their own past traumas, in this case, those suffered while enslaved.👇
She looked like she always had something powerful to say. She wrote as if this world needed a reminder of its humane spirit and its responsibility of benevolence towards one another. I can only hope that I said Thank You each and every time I finished reading one of her books.
My heart breaks for the loss of her earthly presence, but my heart leaps for the remembrance of her literary canon.
Thanks for writing, Toni Morrison! You shall be missed!❤️
Rest in power, Toni Morrison. 😔 What‘s your favorite book of her‘s?
“Her writing was a beautiful, meaningful challenge to our conscience and our moral imagination. What a gift to breathe the same air as her, if only for a while”
Barrack Obama 😢
“He licked his lips. ‘Well, if you want my opinion-‘
‘I don‘t, ‘ She said. ‘I have my own.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved
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I had the great good fortune to attend a conference by Morrison at a book festival a few years ago. She totally won me over.
She was a beautiful human being and a born storyteller. Even her interview sounded like a story were layers and layers of meaning were hidden.
R.I.P. Toni Morrison. Thanks for the great gift you gave us.
“He licked his lips. ‘Well, if you want my opinion-‘
‘I don‘t, ‘ She said. ‘I have my own.”
RIP Toni.💔
I've been crying a lot since the news. This week has been horrendous, but this was the hardest blow.
"Make up a story. ... For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light. Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief's wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul."
I am just so damned sad today.
#tonimorrison
Behold, my copy of Beloved from high school, back when our country‘s greatest literature was printed in mass market paperback. I remember my awe that every word, every sentence, was perfection. You could not change a single word because each one was just exactly what it needed to be. She will always be an inspiration. #tonimorrison #literarylegend
I'll join the chorus in mourning Toni Morrison's passing, and remembering her incredible career. She is truly one of the all-time greats of literature. I can say that with confidence after just 4.5 books of hers: I can't wait to read them all. I'm about halfway through Beloved and am completely under its spell.
I know I don‘t get to pop on here much anymore thanks to my crazy schedule, but I wanted to pay my respects to Toni Morrison. Sula and Beloved were my first introductions to Black literature thanks to my high school English teachers. Morrison opened a door for me to a world of great books and perspectives that I would have never seen. Rest in Power to a true icon. 💜 #ToniMorrison
#RestInPower dearest Toni. You sit on your throne alongside Octavia as one of the greatest black female writers of all time, but most certainly in American history. You will be dearly missed, but your voice and vision will persist as your legacy. 😭❣️
Reposting this amazing portrait of this wonderful author hanging at the United States' National Portrait Gallery in DC. May she rest in power. We owe her much.
RIP Toni Morrison such a beautiful amazing talent gone she will be missed by many.
"We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives." —During her Nobel Prize speech in 1993
She is no longer ours, but belongs to heaven again.
And the literary world weeps. 💔
https://www.npr.org/2019/08/06/542391535/toni-morrison-whose-soaring-novels-were...
A true revolutionary has passed. Rest in Power Miss Toni. Thank you for loving us with your words. #tonimorrison #passingofanicon
"Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined."
#restinpeace #tonimorrison
I own the tagged book, but haven't read it yet. If you've read any Morrison, what would you say is her best work or where to start?
She passed yesterday at 88 and seemed to have lived a very full life. She's won some pretty prestigious awards, too!
I‘m so sad to see her leave this world. She will always be one of, if not my favorite authors. Rest easy, sweet lady 💔
