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Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Violence, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Colonisation
This book covers many topics in ways that I found to be so effective and concise, while also still being poetic and indirect. The discussions of colorism, racism, sexism, and trauma were incredibly impactful. Inter generational trauma is not something often covered in the books I read, but it was done so effectively in The Bluest Eye.
This book is worth an endless amount of rereads and is absolutely necessary for education and people of various walks of life.
I have never read a book quite like this.
Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Hate crime, Incest, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Classism
Moderate: Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Racism
appreciate how it makes the readers work to piece together the story but the story was simply horrific experience after horrific experience. It’s weirder because you know what the worst of the story will be in the first few pages but it still shakes you when it eventually does. I’ll continue the rest of my review in my book but yeah. Best book I’ve read this month so far.
Graphic: Child abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Incest, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Classism
Moderate: Pedophilia
Graphic: Incest, Pedophilia, Racism, Rape
How is it a woman can write about incest from the point of view of the aggressor --the excuses he makes for himself--how does anyone know that?
And what is the interest in writing that story?
In Bastard out of Carolina, Dorothy Allison writes out of her own need to tell, which is different. Toni Morrison is writing about something else: the vulnerability of all women and all children, because of the vulnerability of the most vulnerable.
It is a book with signature Toni Morrison moments, where language and thoughts blend in a magical place where both what she is saying and how she is saying it are unusual and compelling, where language takes you on a little trip.
I would say the "blue eyes" pieces of the novel are not that: it's too over-thought, she is pushing for something she wants to repel, and it doesn't totally work.
But where the two sisters are in conversation, or the description of the light-skinned black woman and her perception of herself...there are moments in this book that are perfectly brilliant.
That she would describe this book as "about the friendship... between two little girls"...(in the documentary about her, "The pieces that I am")...is, I feel, misleading.
I was interested in the book's discussion on "ugliness"...like in Half of a Yellow Sun, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, "ugliness" is spoken of but never discussed, never interrogated (even though central to the plot). However, in this book, when someone uses the word "ugly" about Pecola, it's almost like there are quotation marks around it, it is very self-aware, it is asking just by being there, what does ugly mean? Ugly to whom? Ugly in what way?
This book has so many layers. A worthwhile read.
Graphic: Incest, Pedophilia, Sexual violence
Moderate: Racism
Graphic: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Incest, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Grief, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence
Minor: Animal death
Excellent audiobook read by the author.
Graphic: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Incest, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Classism
Moderate: Mental illness, Miscarriage, Vomit, Alcohol