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Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

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jwartts's review

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challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

3.75

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crybabybea's review against another edition

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emotional reflective fast-paced

4.5

Powerfully beautiful writing made more emotional as a love letter to the author's son. I feel honored that Ta-Nehisi Coates allowed me as a reader into his life and beliefs so intimately. 100% recommend the audiobook, to hear his writing in his own voice is incredible.

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emmapaigereads's review against another edition

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challenging emotional fast-paced

4.5

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katiew221's review

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challenging emotional informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

Worth reading, worth listening to, and worth thinking about. Especially if the topic of race and racism makes you uncomfortable.

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ashlightgrayson's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

This was such a beautiful peace of work. I have always wanted to, but have never read, a work by Coates before this. All I can say is that I was missing out. His writing is poetic yet impactful. I do recommend the audiobook format as it is read by the author and that format really captures the emotion behind every written word in this work. The narrative is told from the perspective of a father speaking to his son. There is so much love here, but it also a warning. A warning to a son about how society will treat him based on his skin tone. It is a history lesson of how throughout history black bodies have been abused and used. It elaborates on the current injustices that exist in our society based on a historical bias that has continued to be perpetuated. We continue to pay the consequences of the ignorance and prejudice that has been passed down from the rich white elite in the United States and around the world. I don't own a physical copy of this book, but I definitely plan on getting one so I can reread this and annotate. One of the best reading experiences I had this year. 5/5 stars for me.

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thebookkeepers's review against another edition

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challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

I started this on an ebook and had a harder time getting into the book, but when I switched to audio I was completely captivated. The author narrates the audiobook and his voice inflection and cadence add so much to the overall experience. This was a vulnerable look into a private conversation he wrote to his 15-year-old son explaining his self-discovery, realizations, and lessons about what it means to be a Black man in the world. The writing style felt like that of poetry when I was listening. It isn't an easy read, emotionally, but one that will stay with me.

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