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A review by babsxi
Love by Toni Morrison
5.0
The dialogue made this book a little more harder to follow as opposed to other Morrison books, and you could say finishing this was a labor of LOVE. I’m always not sure how to review Morrison’s books, because there is truly none better to me. The descriptions of the setting, characters, and emotions are phenomenal by themselves, and when you look at her work on the deeper lever of plot, theme, and character development, there is no one better.
This novel, like a good chunk of Morrison’s work, is heavy and just blatantly sad at times. She opens the novel suggesting that “loose women” are simply trying to find love in their relationships with men. We realize throughout the book, and more specifically by the end, that this drive is what causes many of the women in the novel to be broken. We also realize that all humans are just looking for love and to be seen, heard, and made to feel safe. True love is safe wanting.
Anyway, Charles Baudelaire said to “always be a poet, even in prose,” and Toni Morrison is my favorite poet.
This novel, like a good chunk of Morrison’s work, is heavy and just blatantly sad at times. She opens the novel suggesting that “loose women” are simply trying to find love in their relationships with men. We realize throughout the book, and more specifically by the end, that this drive is what causes many of the women in the novel to be broken. We also realize that all humans are just looking for love and to be seen, heard, and made to feel safe. True love is safe wanting.
Anyway, Charles Baudelaire said to “always be a poet, even in prose,” and Toni Morrison is my favorite poet.