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I love getting gifts there's so many of them to put in one post 2/3 these are the books and the fantastic bag which I use all the time now as my old one had a rip in it.
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Hooray! I got showered in confetti yesterday 🎉🎉🎉 I can't believe I've already finished my reading challenge in October- this has NEVER happened before 🎉

Anything Toni Morrison has written leaves me in awe. This was the first non-fiction of hers that I've read and I encourage you to pick it up because it is very slim and accessible. I would read it as a work of literary criticism though, she moves through Flannery O'Conner, Faulker, and her own work, among others to explore how the "other" has been narrated and constructed throughout space and time.
Coates' foreword is also brilliant.

A quick and awesome read not just on race, but “othering” in general.
“...there are no strangers. They are only versions of ourselves, many of which we have not embraced, most of which we wish to protect ourselves from.”

Toni Morrison is as brilliant as ever. This is a brilliant collection of essays that serves as masterful literary criticism, a fresh look at history and current events, interesting personal stories and anecdotes, and a fascinating look into her own novels.

#readsoullit

Day 13: Food for thought.

From Ta-Nehisi Coates' foreword: "This is a work about the creation of aliens and the erection of fences, one that employs literary criticism, history, and memoir in an attempt to understand how and why we have to associate those fences with pigment." #readsoullit #tonimorrison #foodforthought

This is a fascinating book by Ms Toni Morrison! It‘s gives the reason why race matters from 6 different perspectives and literary examples to support them. I love a book that gives me even more books to read! 😁

This is a really quick read (it‘s a lecture that was presented at the humanities center at Harvard) that synthesizes some of Morrison‘s thoughts on the nature of othering, using examples from her own work. I imagine it would be a nice complement if you‘re reading or recently read any of her novels.

Honestly Toni Morrison could write her drink order on a napkin and I would love it.

Rowdy and I agree - this book of essays was great! Another very short but deep read on why and how we “other” people.

None of us are worthy of Toni Morrison. And Ta-Nehisi Coates' forward was pretty good too. 👑🖤

#nonfiction #racism #xenophobia

This tiny little book packs a punch! I loved reading her discussion of the role race plays in her books. Highly recommend! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Racism matters.

Toni Morrison with a foreword by Ta-Nehisi Coates? Sign me up!

toni morrison sharing about her process and the world her novels represent is, as always, a gift to us all.

I have the latest (tiny) Toni Morrison book! 🤗 Hoping to knock this out in one sitting tonight.

This is a really short book based on a lecture, but it‘s extremely powerful. Toni Morrison has such a special way about her and the way she writes. I just absolutely love her. She‘s one of those writers who recognizes the pain people experience, but never strips those people of their integrity. I think that‘s so special and important.

#libraryrun #restraint #books #thisoldhouse
Library run-was successful at only allowing these to come home. Crazy two days: hot water tank burst; neither my husband or I home,so 6 in of water before hubby turned water off. Water drained, fans etc going. Old house (this part 1850)with most basement dirt floor & red stone foundation thats permeable- job of keeping curious cats away from basement door/ajar due to electrical cords-new tank Monday.

Separating the "us" from the "other" has been used to strengthen the "us" in order to have a common enemy. It's a strategy to peg groups of people against each other. Morrison's reviews this concept of othering with examples in literary works of her own and of other authors. This collection of essays is very current in the light of the political climate in the USA, but also on a grander scale due to globalization and the refugee crisis in Europe.

Truth!

I read this in one day. Contained in it's 111 pages is so much that cannot possibly be absorbed in one read through. From the introduction through to the end of the 6th lecture, there is so much that we still need to learn, that I still need to learn. To deconstruct the "Other", we must know her and face her and realize that she is us. "Race is the classification of a species, and we are the human race, period." I highly recommend this book.

I just received this book today and have only read the foreword by Ta-Nehisi Coates and I can already tell that this is going to be a book I will refer to again and again and again. #weneeddiversebooks

Yeah baby! 😆😆😆

Prime Day is messing with my plan to buy less books.... but this just looks so good. With code "primebooks17" you get 5 bucks off any physical book... even pre-orders.