pickDefinitely too early to call but this is definitely in the running for most favorite book of 2024. This is a Huck Finn retelling from another perspective. It's magic.
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pickThis was the third book I‘ve read from Percival Everett. I loved it so much! I was a little sad when I finished. I love reimagining old and cherished stories and James does not disappoint.
pickI purchased Everett‘s novel The Trees at Ann Patchett‘s bookstore in Nashville, and I loved it. Last year I went to Patchett‘s book signing for Tom Lake, and she told the audience that they had to watch out for Everett‘s next book, James. I preordered a copy from her bookstore, and I believe this novel will be at the top of my best books of 2024 list. Everett‘s retelling of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of James is a modern classic.
So far I love this retelling of Huck Finn from Jim‘s perspective. It‘s a fast paced adventure story that‘s intellectually playful and moving.
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pickAmazing, amazing book! There are most certainly difficult parts to read in this book. But the story of James and Huck Finn was just superb. I can't recommend this book enough.
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pickSo it‘s only April but I‘m pretty sure I already read the best book I‘m going to read this year. It‘s my first Everett novel (though I loved American Fiction) and damn, this man does not waste a word. I was completely invested from the first sentence and his story telling did not let me go until the last line, and honestly, not even then.
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pickGrips you and doesn‘t let go from the first paragraph to the very last line. An absolute masterpiece.
pickThis book was so much fun to read through. This story is about James who is the slave who goes on that adventure with Huckleberry Finn. This story is told through the perspective of James the slave. Once I started this I had a hard time putting it down. A++++
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This year, I'm not doing challenges and instead just reading what I want without any pressure. I found I was getting too competitive with my challenges, and it was making reading less enjoyable.
Here are some of my favorites I've read so far this year. 💚
"At that moment the power of reading made itself clear and real to me. If I could see the words, then no one could control them or what I got from them. They couldn't even know if I was merely seeing them or reading them, sounding them out or comprehending them. It was a completely private affair and completely free and, therefore, completely subversive.”
A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim‘s point of view. From the “literary icon” (Oprah Daily) and Pulitzer Prize Finalist whose novel Erasure is the basis for Cord Jefferson‘s critically acclaimed film American Fiction.
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pickAn action-packed reimagining of Huckleberry Finn 🎣⛺️📚, a queer retelling of the classic folktale “The Selkie Wife” 🌊🧜♀️💘, a magical realism novel on the trials of dating and what it means to find love 💌🌴❤️🔥, an enemies to lovers about college exes who break all of their own rules 🏈🌶️✈️, a wickedly funny vacation-Gothic about scary family dynamics 👻🍷🇮🇹, and a murder mystery that about a decades-old prophecy come true 🕵️♀️🔮💰
pickI‘ve been an Everett fan for a while and count me among the many who thinks this is one of his best! His brilliant humor still manages to come through the story of Huckleberry Finn told from the perspective of Jim (James). I liked it better than the original Twain.
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pick🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟I taught Huck Finn for many years, and this retelling is everything I hoped for when I first heard about it last year. Even though the reading is definitely enhanced by having read Huck Finn, it‘s not a dealbreaker. It‘s interesting to hear the events from Jim‘s perspective, to know how brilliant he is, and watch him really morph into James. This will be in my top books of 2024, no doubt, and my first of many Percival Everett reads.
pickPercival Everett takes the story of Huck Finn and rewrites it from Jim‘s perspective. James is not the illiterate slave in Twain's book, but an educated, intelligent, and complicated man. James is given a complete backstory, showing us a man who feels and loves deeply, who struggles with his lot in life, the joy and the anger he feels, often at the same time. I know it is only March, but I am comfortable saying that this is my book of the year.
pickUnsurprisingly, this is a very satisfying read. Everett explores some familiar themes from his other work (racism, stereotyping) and turns the light on the horror of slavery as well. He makes some choices here that are likely to seriously piss off hard right folks (which I frankly loved). Excellent addition to his bibliography.
pickThis book was excellent. A retelling of mark Twain‘s classic, James is the story of “Jim” from huckleberry Finn. My full review is on the blog but I highly recommend this book.
https://thereadersroom.org/2024/03/20/james-by-percival-everett/
James is the reimagining of huckleberry Finn told from the voice of Jim. So far, I‘m really appreciating it.
pickThe hype is to be believed re: this one - just extraordinarily good. And Dominic Hoffman‘s audiobook narration is brilliant (thanks to #LibroFM for the ALC!). I‘m tempted to listen to it again right now and curious about the experience of it in print, too.
pickThis is a ‘re-imagining‘ of Huckleberry Finn, from the POV of the slave, Jim, or James as he calls himself. I read HF before this and I think it‘s worth doing so.
The first half of the book faithfully follows the original and is satirically funny. The second half becomes a lot darker and is where Everett gets his message across about slavery.
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I think I‘ll re-read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn first as I haven‘t read that since I was a child.
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pickThanks to Edelweiss for an advance digital copy. Jim was a strong, compassionate, and wise character in The Adventures of Huck Finn. In the first half of James, there wasn‘t an appreciable difference of story or character; however the second half gives James the time and space to fully inhabit all of the complexities of his character and life.
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My most anticipated release of 2024 is Percival Everett‘s JAMES, a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of Jim. Promises to be memorable! Coming in March.
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pickI am a fan of novels that retell stories through the perspective of a character not given a voice in the original work, so I knew when I read about this book that I wanted to read it.
It‘s even better than I might have imagined.
I received an ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
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