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.
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glued, crying, captivated
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i’m stunned. Sula is an immediate icon to me… how have i never read this before?
i love the way Toni writes, such smart and precise cutting of the fat. you can see this world she builds so easily and feel so much in just 160 pages. now THIS is a NOVEL!! i feel strongly that if i had read this in high school i would be sooo diff…. like damn they really had me read Old Man and the Sea instead …whatever
i stopped reading this halfway thru on my Kindle to go buy a hard copy bc i knewww this was a book i needed to own. absolutely no notes I simply loved
Mar 28, 2024
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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