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The Color Purple

Alice Walker

Start date: August 1, 2017

Finish date: August 30, 2017

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Jul 31, 2018 Raymond rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: five-stars, 20booksbyblackwomen

Second review (2024): I re-read this alongside my Nerdy Circle partner Honorée Fanonne Jeffers after I watched the new musical adaptation. I enjoyed reading this book a second time and I appreciate and love it even more, especially its legacy not just in the film and theatre adaptations but also what it has to say about feminism and the patriarchy, what it has to say about how people can change and evolve. Honorée Jeffers said something in our conversations about the book that has stuck with me ...more

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Feb 13, 2017 Suzy rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: found-community, american-south, audio-faves, historical-fiction, found-family, re-reads, listened-to, movie-fave

What a delight to reread The Color Purple after 30+ years, and to have Alice Walker read it to me. I'm always wary of an author reading their own work, but felt while listening that no one else could have read this with such depth of feeling and meaning as Walker. When I read TCP when it first came out, it felt revolutionary. A portrayal of violence against women and black people, but a story of redemption and Life with a capital L. In Walker's 1990 introduction, she talks about how she struggle ...more

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