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#authoramonth #20in4 Sonny‘s Blues made me cry and I‘ve read it before.I finished this about 6 hours into my #readathon What can be said about Baldwin , a person who never held back writing about strong characters in a world full of injustice, racism, & the challenge of daily living.Emotionally strong ,he seems to examine life through a prism seeing all the sides . I‘m glad I finally got to this short story collection.

"There's no way not to suffer. But you try all kinds of ways to keep from drowning in it." Eight short stories full of heartbreak, violence, drama, broken people. Great writing but not my favorite ?‍♀️

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Excellent collection showing Baldwin's talent and diversity.

I was surprised when I started this that several I had read in high school and college but I didn't realize they were written by Baldwin before.

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#curiouscovers #man It‘s hard to resist vintage paperbacks in good condition, I also love Baldwin but haven‘t read this short story collection.You know me, getting all the books so I won‘t be caught short in the impending book apocalypse.📚💣🤯

There‘s a long path of Baldwin‘s life in this short story collection, capped, easily, by the magnificent Sonny‘s Blues. Baldwin does some lovely, beautiful gently-created characters and tears them up. The last story, the title story on going to see a lynching, hovers over everything else. These stories are about racism even when they‘re not. The book completes my reading of the pictured collection.

Rereading a couple of stories from this collection. I really need to read more of Baldwin‘s books. I just own this one and a poetry collection but there‘s far too many others I‘m missing out on for sure 📚🤔

I‘d never read Baldwin‘s short stories before but these absolutely didn‘t disappoint. He sketches in so much in so few words, and covers so many emotions without ever being melodramatic. I think the thing that struck me most was how he wrote about religion. I‘m glad I read this after Notes of a Native Son and was able to see his father‘s voice in the preaching, and reactions to it in the prose that followed.

Hey, buddy, I can't finish reading these stories if you're going to nap on them all day long...