first toni morrison and loving it so far but so busy atm that it’s taking forever to read
Mar 1, 2024
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such a powerful, beautiful, lyrical, and gutwrenching examination of race, beauty, femininity, family, etc, etc.. I could go on about it, but I'll just say that its prose somehow embodies not only poetry, but as this old NYT review states, also "history, sociology, folklore, nightmare and music." if you haven't read it, you must!
Jun 11, 2025
both by Toni Morrison. More heavy, intense, uncompromising than the descriptors in the ask but close enough – any opportunity to rec Toni Morrison simply must be taken. She writes characters like no one else – incredibly full of life. She writes about the complex experience of blackness and of girlhood/womanhood with incredible candor and care. It’s both extremely personal and always political.
TW: probably everything, so please be wary if you have sensitivities to traumatic shit.
May 13, 2024
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by Toni Morrison
Her treatment of time is so beautiful and lyrical. She pulls U into the past and it’s like being swept away by a current or a riptide + I often didn’t notice it happening until I was well in it.
It’s a beautiful + harrowing read. I genuinely could not put it down (ended up finishing it in a day). Cried many times. Best thing I’ve read so far this year.
Jun 28, 2024
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