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durrance_c's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
4.0
lietmanna's review against another edition
3.0
This was more of a compilation of essays rather than a cohesive narrative, but I got used to the jumbled thoughts that seemed smashed together and unedited. Hooks shares scattered memories and observations, writing primarily to keep her grandmother alive. Her insights are uniquely hers, and I especially liked the way she spoke of quilting and feminism, building an authentic life/living authentically, black farming and subsistence in rural Kentucky, sub-cultures and fringes and outsiderness, segregation and neighbors and fear and blacks imagining of whites.
zoeferry's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
4.0
laurenrussell's review against another edition
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informative
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4.0
Very interesting and insightful perspectives—I loved the quilt essays. However, the grammar and editing in this book is out of control and I truly have no idea how in the world this passed to publish. Insane amount of typos and then long hard to follow sentences but that just might be her style
tararhoseyn's review against another edition
3.0
Poorly edited in the extreme. A litany of grammar mistakes and too much repetition between and within the essays. But if you can forgive the book that, it's worth getting through it for bell hooks' meditations on how spatial meanings inform our lives. It offers a refreshing ecological consciousness that goes hand-in-hand with anti-racist practice. It was also insightful to read how Kentucky, and the Southern milieu and landscape more generally, informed her relationship to whiteness.
elizabethward's review against another edition
4.0
The content in here was excellent, but a few sections could have benefited from another edit. I will definitely need to read more from hooks in the future.
alwaysaaryn's review against another edition
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2.0
DNF, couldn’t vibe with Hooks on her stances about racism within rural areas