“When people don‘t like themselves, it makes them mean. “
AmyG That‘s a very true quote. 4d
“When people don‘t like themselves, it makes them mean. “
pickA very compelling story blending the genre of sentimental abolitionist novel with slave narrative to question the caste system of race in post civil war America. Iola was almost too good for me. I hated how her story was told through the men in the novel but loved the story, told with grace, although it addressed the darkest and most disgusting part of a deeply American institution, one were still reckoning with today.
📸 by Philip Evergood
Didn‘t read as much as January but enjoyed all of these.
#2025reads #Fiction
This is a beautiful read in how it shows a complicated dynamics between race and personal identity. All the way through I could see something dreadful was ahead, and then it happened and I had to pause, recollect myself before carrying on.
pick3.5⭐(Light Pick)
•I feel like this was a bit unfocused and lacked depth. Maybe it needed to pick one genre and stick to it. It seemed to want to dip its toes into as many as possible without fully committing to one. Overall, it had elements that worked and ones that didn‘t work for me.
•The narration performed by Deanna Anthony, Carmel Jewel Jones, & Robin Eller was fantastic.
pickIt took me a while to get into this story, but I am happy I stuck with it. I had a hard time placing myself in the scenes that seemed like one event placed after another. It was the historical timeline and characters that hooked me and got me to care about the present-day ones. This is still a pick.
pick7-31-24: My 26th finished book of 2024! What a powerful story. When Kitty Karr passes away she leaves her vast fortune to her next door neighbors 3 daughters. Making the oldest, Elise, the executor, she leaves her not only money but her secret life story. Told in present day with Elise and from Kitty‘s perspective from the past, we learn of her humble beginnings, and her rise to fame as a screen icon. It‘s the back story that will shock the world.
pickSadly as telling now as it was when first published in 1929. Nella Larsen‘s own life as a mixed-race woman informed her writing, making her an important part of the Harlem Renaissance. American author Darryl Pinckney wrote of Larsen: “No matter what situation Larsen found herself in, racial irony of one kind or another invariably wrapped itself around her.”
Found this one on BookTok and already a quarter of the way through it.
(Also had to convert up the Netflix logo because you know they are gonna ruin this book.)
