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3.97 AVERAGE
3.97 AVERAGE
Holy cow, Jacqueline Woodson has done it to me again! Like with Red At The Bone, I finished Another Brooklyn astonished at what the author accomplished in so few words. Vignettes leaping off the page with a lyricism I could dance to. Just life. Gorgeous. Beyond gorgeous.
August returns to Brooklyn to bury her father. She recalls the Brooklyn of her youth: hanging around with her three best friends feeling invincible, calming her younger brother when he misses their mother, her father and his entry into The Nation of Islam, blackouts and looting. I was transplanted to Brooklyn throughout this entire book.
adventurous
challenging
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
i really enjoyed woodson’s writing, i feel like she covered a lot of ground in an elegant way. i just feel like for the sake of the characters, this needed to be a longer book. but maybe that’s the point. you devour this novel in one sitting and suddenly you’re not 15 anymore.
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
This book just grabs you right away — I read the whole thing in one sitting. I love how the prose jump from the present to the past and back again, just like memories...making connections between moments and feelings. Just thinking about this book makes me tear up! Planning to read it again soon.
This is the second time I’ve read the book, and I enjoyed it a lot more than the first time. A lot of the writing in this book, will make you quite nostalgic for days gone by.
A lovely, lyrical book that is like stepping into someone's reminisces. What a voice and I see why this author is so popular. This is the first I've read of hers. I hope she continues to write for adults as well.
I'm now a Jacqueline Woodson devotee. It was great to read this right after Brown Girl Dreaming because of how wonderfully similar and different they are at the same time. Similar is Woodson's language, which even in prose is actually poetry. But this story is not a memoir, as she points out in the afterword. It holds pieces of her stories nevertheless.
The novel reads almost like a fever dream, the narrator herself seemingly confused about the passage of time. Memories and snippets collected in a web of thought.
This book stays with me, making me think, as the best books do: Our memories shape us, but how do we know which memories are true? And memories that are true for one might be remembered differently for another. Time erases and reveals truths as we stumble towards our destinies.
"Two steps to the left or right or front or back and you're standing outside your life."
This book is a beautiful homage to the innocence of childhood, the slippery slope into adulthood and the people we become when all is said and done.
The novel reads almost like a fever dream, the narrator herself seemingly confused about the passage of time. Memories and snippets collected in a web of thought.
This book stays with me, making me think, as the best books do: Our memories shape us, but how do we know which memories are true? And memories that are true for one might be remembered differently for another. Time erases and reveals truths as we stumble towards our destinies.
"Two steps to the left or right or front or back and you're standing outside your life."
This book is a beautiful homage to the innocence of childhood, the slippery slope into adulthood and the people we become when all is said and done.
lots of moving back and forth in time. I did not like how the union of the main characters that was strong in the beginning of the novel never got resolved. The flashing forward and back was not purposeful as the novel ended - it just seemed gratuitous and did not move the story or dysfunction along.