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3.97 AVERAGE
3.97 AVERAGE
Utterly boring and trite writing. There were a few redeemable snippets here and there, but this novel would have been far better off as a short story.
What happens to the girls makes me so emotional. Not because it’s bad, but because it happens
challenging
emotional
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This book is an ode to all the emotion, drama and love that encompasses growing up as a girl in American society. Though it particularly focuses on what it’s like growing up as a black teen girl in New York in the 70s, I think that anyone can find the story to be relatable in many ways. Beautifully written in Woodson’s poetic style, Another Brooklyn struck a chord in me and had me remembering all that emotion I felt as a tween and teen too. The love for your friends, the impossibility of teen romance and that ever-encompassing shadow of suddenly being the object of desire.
reflective
I would almost describe this as a novel-length prose poem, the writing is so beautiful.
I finished it. It has been one day and two sittings. I finished it and I love. I love. I was reminded that I do love. Ms. Jacqueline Woodson did a thing here. She did a thing where she highlighted the pain and desolation of existence, acknowledged the tumble of unmet expectation, and allowed denial to be the conqueror. In spite of all these things I love. This book is for those who have discovered the ministry of music when they can't explain their pain. A novel with the urgency of poetry and the gut punch of realization. This book is amazing. No word was wasted. Ann Petry The Street, Britt Bennet The Mothers, Bone Yrsa Daley-Ward, all warm with a Chai tea latte with coconut milk and agave. I deserved so much less than this amazing work. I didn't even read the synopsis. It was on sale and then I bought it forgot I had it and bought it again. I didn't REALLY pick it. It picked me. Really amazing work. If only...
The world is 70% water.
You damn right it is...
I still love.
The world is 70% water.
You damn right it is...
I still love.
This author sure knows how to pack a punch with relatively few words. This audiobook was only 3 hours long, but it was intense and beautiful.