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A review by welllovedspines
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
challenging
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
- 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
4.0
TL;DR: This book is heart-breakingly beautiful. It wasn't anything like I expected - it was so much more. I only regret that it took me as long as it did to finally pick this book up and give it a read.
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Wow, I truly can't believe that this took me so long to finally get around to reading. In fact, I first started hearing about this book when I was in high school (well over a decade ago). I knew it was praised as a fantastic book that had been adapted into a movie with Oprah Winfrey and Whoopie Goldberg. I just figured I would get around to it someday. And I'm so glad that "someday" finally came.
I don't really know what I expected from this book, but it definitely was not what I anticipated. And I mean that in the best way possible. The story is written as letters between sisters and prayers to God. These correspondences reveal the past and present of these women over decades of their lives. It is an intimate invitation to grow right along with them.
This work also took me on a roller coaster of emotions - from heartbreak and a desire to console the main character right off the bat, to pure elation with her growth and self-actualization as the book progressed.
If you haven't gotten around to reading this book, please don't continue to put it off. I hope that you can wrap yourself in the authors words and appreciate this incredible work of modern literature.
"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it." Just like this line that gives the novel it's name implies, don't let this book - this color purple - go unnoticed in your life.
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Wow, I truly can't believe that this took me so long to finally get around to reading. In fact, I first started hearing about this book when I was in high school (well over a decade ago). I knew it was praised as a fantastic book that had been adapted into a movie with Oprah Winfrey and Whoopie Goldberg. I just figured I would get around to it someday. And I'm so glad that "someday" finally came.
I don't really know what I expected from this book, but it definitely was not what I anticipated. And I mean that in the best way possible. The story is written as letters between sisters and prayers to God. These correspondences reveal the past and present of these women over decades of their lives. It is an intimate invitation to grow right along with them.
This work also took me on a roller coaster of emotions - from heartbreak and a desire to console the main character right off the bat, to pure elation with her growth and self-actualization as the book progressed.
If you haven't gotten around to reading this book, please don't continue to put it off. I hope that you can wrap yourself in the authors words and appreciate this incredible work of modern literature.
"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it." Just like this line that gives the novel it's name implies, don't let this book - this color purple - go unnoticed in your life.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Violence, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Child abuse, and Rape