#grove #quotsyjune19 @TK-421
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Have read this a few times- sometimes I whet it, sometimes I don‘t
Beloved | 
Went to the National Portrait Gallery earlier today. Avoided most of the bombastic stuff and stuck to the contemporary exhibit. And there was this, the great Morisson in all her magnificent glory. Damn!
It's Friday night. I'm rearranging my shelves. Who here wouldn't want to date me? 😂
Happy birthday to the brilliant, challenging & inspiring Toni Morrison! #happybirthday #brilliantwomen #Americanclassics
Albom and Angelou and Gibbons and Morrison
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These are a few of #MyFavoriteThings. Authors that is.
#MusicalNewYear
I've always wanted to read this novel, but when I found out Toni Morrison's real name is Chloe aka my name it bumped it to the top of my list. 😂 #beloved #ToniMorrison #imanarcissist
pickThis book is a lot of things... harrowing, painful tales of slavery and the horrible things humans have done to each other, the stories of mothers and families, a ghost story... Toni Morrison‘s writing is amazing and beautifully descriptive, but the wandering plot and some of the more poetic passages lost me. Also, I have a like/dislike relationship with her audio narration—love to hear her read, but parts are uneven.
⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2
#readBlackwomen
#QuotsyFeb19 Day 3: #Velvet as a new-born world. I read this novel aloud two years ago to my teenage daughter and only a few pages in, she knew it was still way too much for her and begged for another title. 😂🤣🧚🏼♀️📚💕
It‘s our last challenge of day one, and it‘s one of our favs. We‘re highlighting one of our favorite grassroots organizations, #WeNeedDiverseBooks, which “advocates essential changes in the publishing industry.” For this challenge, we want to see and hear about diverse books that you love, and the ways you work to diversify your bookshelves.📚 Head to 24in48.com to enter, check past challenge and check-in posts to see if we drew your name! #24in48
Feeling kind of boring here!
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@wanderinglynn
pickI don‘t know how I missed adding this on here! We read it for class (it was a re-read, for me) and I probably just got overloaded with preparing for finals. Anyway, Morrison is one of my favorite authors. She tells you a story, but it is not a story. It is the truth. She doesn‘t flinch from the truth and she doesn‘t care about your feelings. The only way to truly move forward is to clear away the ghosts of the past. 150/1,001 #1001Books
This classic is a fictional horror story based on a historical horror story. Sethe‘s baby, unnamed except for a tombstone labeled “Beloved,” will haunt you for the rest of your days.
#ghosts #octoberxfiles @Cinfhen @Robothugs
pickWow. This 1988 Pulitzer Prize winning novel is *amazing*: It‘s lit-fic, American fic, African-American lit, a ghost story, a horror story, lyrical prose, and a story about truths wrapped up in magical realism. “Beloved” is the name on the headstone of a girl... And yeah, that‘s all I‘m going to tell you!
🎧 The audio is showing its age with a cloudy background and odd edits (where tags were removed?) but T.M.‘s performance was mesmerizing
Day seven of #bannedbooksweek I‘m showing off BELOVED. Definitely a very hard book to read. I can understand why this book would be challenged but it‘s definitely a book people should have the option of reading. This book has been challenged pretty much every year since it‘s been published. Reasons are “includes scenes of violent sex, including gang rape, and too graphic and extreme for teenagers.”•
#bannedbooksbonanza #beloved #tonimorrison
Words Have Power, Read A Banned Book!
It‘s #BannedBooksWeek 📖✊🏽 What banned book are you reading?
I read my first Toni Morrison book, #THEBLUESTEYE, in 2016. I‘m kind of ashamed to say that I‘ve never read #BELOVED. But no time like the present.
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#spinesvines #books #wine #diversespines #bannedbooks #fridayreads #tgif #tonimorrison #wocwriters #fallreading
#HelloThursday | Banned Books Edition
1. Beloved
2. Animal Farm #reread
3. Kite Runner
4. Against banning books. Think they provide opportunity for understanding others and yourself.
Top 100 lists
http://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/top100
Infographic of banned book history
https://indiereader.com/2015/10/a-history-of-banned-books/
#bannedbooks #bannedbooksweek #ireadbannedbooks
@wanderinglynn
🎧 I‘m listening to the haunting, mesmerizing prose of Toni Morrison who is hypnotizing me with her cadence and the intensity of the story about a black slave who has escaped to Ohio but whose past keeps reaching out to her. Graphic? Yes, but also beautiful, poetic, and that which speaks to brutal truths.
#BannedBooksWeek
🎧 I usually shy away from audiobooks read by the author but this is one in which I really want to hear the author‘s voice.
pickThe gorgeous poetry of Morrison‘s writing makes the degradations experienced by the slaves at Sweet Home even more horrifying. Sethe is haunted, literally, by the ghost of her dead daughter.
The story circles in on itself as Sethe gradually comes to terms with the circumstances of Beloved‘s death. Because of the novel‘s structure, the plot is sometimes hard to follow, but the writing is so beautiful that I didn‘t mind getting lost in it.
panI did not get this book...AT ALL. #GARBingo #GAR #GreatAmericanRead #MakeAmericaReadAgain @4thhouseontheleft
I don't know how to feel as I read this book for #GARBingo. I bailed on the #audiobook several months ago, because I didn't have a clue what was happening after a couple chapters. The physical book is easier to follow, but man...I struggle with the jumps in time and perspective; and the poetic language is killing me. I think I would enjoy the story if not told in such an abstract(?) fashion. I want to finish, but this one is a struggle.
pickA disturbing study of a woman who escapes slavery only to destroy her life when she believes her children will be taken from her and enslaved. This is a very sad, disturbing, and mysterious novel. Not always easy to read—both for the content and sometimes for her writing style. Her often chaotic prose reflects the atmosphere of 124, the house where the possible haunting takes place.
#BookNDinner! #RubyTuesdays Edition. Accompaniment this comfortable evening: sweet tea-glazed chicken bites, endless garden salad, and raspberry iced tea. MMMmmm 😋! Happy reads & happy eats. 👌🏻
pickBRUTAL. I dreaded picking this up, because of the raw, yet poetic, emotional and horrific scenes. The guilt and grief of Sethe I felt myself. The unimaginable choice and the consequences she lived with are just too much for me. I am glad (or maybe not..??) I waited to read this until I have my own children to better understand some of the emotions this book smacked me with. 👇🏻(cont. below) #garbingo #pbs #greatamericanread
Cha giò, pho tai nam, and tea while enjoying the tagged book. I like cooking but this is a #bookanddinner I could get used to!
Just started the #audiobook read by the author. It‘s very poetic but so awful to read about the horrible experiences graphically depicted. For that reason, I‘m having a bit of a hard time with it.
#readandlisten #garbingo #greatamericanread #pbs
#BookNDinner! After I had a 12-hour workday today, @BookBabe & I had dinner at a new place. It was goooood. Accompaniment this hot and humid night was: New England clam chowder (fresh clams!), house salad with Ranch dressing, a half-rack of amazing baby-back ribs, killer bbq beef brisket, steak fries, and iced tea. (This was the first place I've found Stella Artois on draft, but I was driving, lol.) MMmmm 😋. Happy reads & happy eats! 😎👌🏻
#BookNDinner! Accompaniment this hot and muggy night: teriyaki shrimp skewers with grape tomatoes, broccoli florets, sticky jasmine mango rice, and sparkling lemon seltzer. .... @BookBabe says this is good for me. .... Okay. 😁 Happy reads & happy eats! 😎👌🏻
#BookNDinner! Accompaniment this warm and sticky evening: angel hair pasta in a white garlic clam sauce, mussels, warm peasant bread, and sparkling lemon seltzer. MMMMmmm 😋! This has been another presentation of: #MrBookBookBabeKitchen. Happy reads & happy eats! 😎👌🏻
#BookNBrunch! We used to post brunches at this place waaay back when we first started on Litsy. Nice to return to a great old spot. Accompaniment this noon-hour was: a bacon-mushroom-Swiss omelette, pancakes, roasted potatoes, an English muffin, and orange juice. MMMmmm 😜. Happy reads & happy eats! 😎👌🏻
so-soI know why this is a classic but it took me almost the entire book to understand what was going on. Maybe I wasn't attentive enough in my reading of it or maybe I got lost in the language. Either way, I struggled a lot with this one, so I can't give it a recommendation.
Day 1 of books that changed me challenge. Thanks for the tag @WhatThePuck
I know, I know....not supposed to give context but this book...it shook my soul.
#HeatOfJuly #waterfalls just a few that had me in waterfalls of tears ❤️
pickToni Morrison's Beloved is one of the great and enduring works of American literature. Story of Sethe who was born a slave and escaped into Ohio, 18 years later she is still not free. She is held captive by memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many things happened. Her baby who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a singe word: 'Beloved' still haunts her. Full of pain and hard book to read but not to be missed.
Holy wow, you guys! This was my first Toni Morrison book, but it won‘t be my last. What other books by her have blown you away?
pickOne more down for the #greatamericanread #garbingo and thank goodness I decided to put this one on my board! I have been so scared of Toni Morrison for so long, but Beloved has turned me into a fan. It was just as heartbreaking as I expected but written so beautifully, and with such insight.
pickI have so many reading challenges going on right now I may as well participate in one that helps me actually do them. Basically Litsy picks what you read for August. Head to @TheReadingMermaid for all the information #MakeMeReadIt
#CoolBooks #Mother
And since l was speaking about Toni Morrison, this mother came to mind.
Once he plotted down to the minute a thirty-mile trip to see a woman. He left on a Saturday when the moon was in the place he wanted it to be, arrived at her cabin before church on Sunday and had just enough time to say good morning before he had to start back again so he'd make the field call on time Monday morning. He had walked for seventeen hours, sat down for one, turned around and walked seventeen more.
Gee , really glad to see these again, happy I kept the good stuff.
