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tamarapopovrackov's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
frankie_vega's review against another edition
5.0
Lessons learned:
•Toni Morrison’s prose fills my soul. She inspires me transmute my emotions into words and spill them out onto paper.
•It’s time for me to tend to my childhood wounds, to listen to my younger self’s cries. These wounds are still scarring and preventing me from connecting with those around me.
•each being in this earth is deeply tangled in our own narratives. When we are able to authentically meet someone else in their entanglement of stories, (when connection is made) magic can happen.
•Toni Morrison’s prose fills my soul. She inspires me transmute my emotions into words and spill them out onto paper.
•It’s time for me to tend to my childhood wounds, to listen to my younger self’s cries. These wounds are still scarring and preventing me from connecting with those around me.
•each being in this earth is deeply tangled in our own narratives. When we are able to authentically meet someone else in their entanglement of stories, (when connection is made) magic can happen.
lynecia's review against another edition
3.0
The Queen waited until the end to give us the good stuff. Review to come!
intomylibrary's review against another edition
dark
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
J’ai eu du mal à me plonger dans le récit malgré sa petitesse.J’ai été captivée dès le moment où on découvre le point de vue de Booker. Je ressors mitigée par cette lecture.
C’est le deuxième livre de toni Morrison que je lis. L’œil le plus bleu (lu en vo) était brillant et excellent mais Délivrances m’a déçu.
C’est le deuxième livre de toni Morrison que je lis. L’œil le plus bleu (lu en vo) était brillant et excellent mais Délivrances m’a déçu.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Pedophilia, Child abuse, Racism, and Toxic relationship
chelseatm's review against another edition
3.0
This definitely was not Toni Morrison's strongest book. She was heavy handed with the child care theme and didn't conclude the book in what I thought was satisfactory. It was a quick read. I was not affected by anything in the story except the repeated stories of child abuse and I felt that that was the part that was heavy handed and indelicate.
Overall, I would not recommend this book.
Overall, I would not recommend this book.
abaugher's review against another edition
5.0
Morrison lays before the reader multiple travesties that are so insidious, so very widespread, so extremely prevalent as to be invisible to our society, yet all the symptoms are there. But she does it in language, inside a story, that everyone can understand. This is not a book to be ignored, just as the events in it are not to be ignored, and the events in all our lives are not to be ignored, anymore. It is time to pay attention to the ugly underbelly of our culture, our world, to bring it out in the open and heal it.