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miaaa_lenaaa's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.5
Graphic: Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Slavery, and Terminal illness
hnnh_bug's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Rape, Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, Violence, Gun violence, Toxic relationship, Sexual violence, Sexism, Racism, Racial slurs, Physical abuse, Misogyny, Infidelity, Grief, and Death
cepbreed's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
I got a 93 on the essay though
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Death, Emotional abuse, Body shaming, Bullying, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, and Gun violence
Moderate: Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Sexual content
libraryghost's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, Sexism, Misogyny, Death, and Grief
ceallaighsbooks's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
“She didn’t read books so she didn’t know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.”
“No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.”
“Ah’m born but Ah ain’t dead. No tellin’ whut Ah’m liable tuh do yet.”
“She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see.”
- Mules and Men, by Zora Neale Hurston
- everything else by Zora Neale Hurston, especially Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick, and Tell My Horse, and Dust Tracks on a Road—TBR
- Beloved, by Toni Morrison—TBR
- The Color Purple, by Alice Walker—TBR
- Love Medicine, by Louise Erdrich—TBR
- The Song of Achilles, by Madeline Miller—just because it was that epic kind of love story that sticks with you long after you’ve finished reading…
Favorite Quotes…
“Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.”
“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
“…bein’ uh fool don’t kill nobody. It jus’ makes you sweat.”
The whole section about the mule. pp 68-69
the buzzard funeral pp 72-73
“She didn’t read books so she didn’t know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.”
“Ah’m born but Ah ain’t dead. No tellin’ whut Ah’m liable tuh do yet.”
“She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.”
“You’se something tuh make uh man forgit tuh git old and forgit tuh die.”
“He kin take most any lil thing and make summertime out of it when times is dull. Then we lives offa dat happiness he made till some mo’ happiness come along.”
“Like the pecking-order in a chicken yard. Insensate cruelty to those you can whip, and groveling submission to those you can’t.”
“If Ah never see you no mo’ on earth, Ah’ll meet you in Africa.”
“If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don’t keer if you die at dusk. It’s so many people never seen de light at all.”
“They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.”
“Folks wuz makin’ weeks befo’ you wuz born and they gointuh be makin’ ‘em after you’se gone.” (meaning you can take the day off when you’re sick)
“Was He noticing what was going on around here? He must be because He knew everything.”
“No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.”
“They were there with their tongues cocked and loaded, the only real weapon left to weak folks.”
“A man is up against a hard game when he must die to beat it.”
“She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.”
“Now, Pheoby, don’t feel too mean wid de rest of ‘em ‘cause dey’s parched up from not known’ things… It’s uh known fact, Pheoby, you got tuh go there tuh know there. Yo’ papa and yo’ mama and nobody else can’t tell yuh and show yuh. Two things everybody’s got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin’ fuh theyselves.”
“Of course he wasn’t dead. He could never be dead until she herself had finished feeling and thinking. The kiss of his memory made pictures of love and light against the wall. Here was peace. She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see.”
Graphic: Racism and Domestic abuse
Moderate: Misogyny and Violence
Minor: Rape and Slavery
ashleycmms's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Blood, Death, Medical content, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, and Violence
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Grief, Gun violence, Murder, and Physical abuse
Minor: Child death and Infertility
asha_m's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Animal death and Violence
Moderate: Domestic abuse, Racism, Racial slurs, Death, and Misogyny
Minor: Slavery
ekmook's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexism, and Toxic relationship
katievh's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
3.5
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Racism, Racial slurs, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Misogyny and Violence
annuich's review against another edition
- Loveable characters? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, and Sexism