Take a photo of a barcode or cover
3.97 AVERAGE
3.97 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
emotional
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual harassment
Moderate: Child abuse, Rape
There’s a lot to unpack with this book and I’m not sure I have the words to adequately describe it. I have appreciated every one of Toni Morrison’s books that I have read so far, and I’m disappointed that we’ll never get any more of them.
toni morrison is a powerhouse, there was truly no one like her. she is a master storyteller and her books are extremely challenging to decipher but infinitely rewarding.
tar baby was so much, it was decadent and overpowering and loud and crazy and it’s one that i will have to read / discuss several times throughout my life before i can truly give my thoughts on it. to put it simply, there is just too much going on to talk about it with integrity with only 1 read.
i will never not cherish her books and recommend them to everyone because it’s unlike any other type of writing i’ve experienced.
tar baby was so much, it was decadent and overpowering and loud and crazy and it’s one that i will have to read / discuss several times throughout my life before i can truly give my thoughts on it. to put it simply, there is just too much going on to talk about it with integrity with only 1 read.
i will never not cherish her books and recommend them to everyone because it’s unlike any other type of writing i’ve experienced.
Morrison takes the reader very skillfully through issues of post-colonialism and two different views of race relations in the US without ever really coming to an answer-- but she definitely gives the reader a lot to think about.
Stage 2 of my 2019 read/reread all the Morrison journey.
This one just feels like a book until the climactic dinner at its center. After that point, it becomes a Toni Morrison novel.
Here's what I think I mean by that: after that dinner--which jettisons the characters on discrete vectors away from the moment of revelation--this becomes a novel no one else could have written. Morrison's tangle of realistic complexity and myth and fable create a cast of fractured and breaking/broken characters who are all indelible, individual, and irreplicable. They are hers and hers alone, and no other writer I know could conceive of them much less write them with such sympathy.
Every Morrison text bears rereading, and at step 2 of 11 on my tour I suspect that I'll undertake this full tour more than a few times.
This one just feels like a book until the climactic dinner at its center. After that point, it becomes a Toni Morrison novel.
Here's what I think I mean by that: after that dinner--which jettisons the characters on discrete vectors away from the moment of revelation--this becomes a novel no one else could have written. Morrison's tangle of realistic complexity and myth and fable create a cast of fractured and breaking/broken characters who are all indelible, individual, and irreplicable. They are hers and hers alone, and no other writer I know could conceive of them much less write them with such sympathy.
Every Morrison text bears rereading, and at step 2 of 11 on my tour I suspect that I'll undertake this full tour more than a few times.
Very slow, requires patience. calls out family secrets and beauty standards.
challenging
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
The ending of this book was emotionally gripping; however, the beginning—id say like the first 150 pages—was very slow and really made me not want to finish the book in the first place.