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Brown Girl Dreaming

Jacqueline Woodson

Start date: October 1, 2018

Finish date: October 31, 2018

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Why we're reading this: October's theme/topic is Autobiography/biography.

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Jan 28, 2015 Lisa rated it really liked it

Shelves: non-fiction, favorites, young-adult-children

This is a wonderful book about coming of age in the 60's/70's. It is written in verse which gives us snippets of a brown girl growing up in two places, New York and South Carolina. It was a very enjoyable story. ...more

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Jun 03, 2018 Jeanne rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: read-women, memoir-biography, read-2018, african-african-american, poetry

Unlike most books of poetry, Jacqueline Woodson's memoir, Brown Girl Dreaming, is a cohesive mosaic comprised from poems, each beautiful in its own right. Stories of her Daddy's lung cancer and death, her younger brother's lead poisoning and illness, her uncle's time in prison, and her family's love are threaded throughout the book, pulling the individual into a whole.

Past and present intertwine, these stories coloring and shaping her life. Woodson's great-great-grandfather was born free and ser ...more

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Mar 10, 2018 Heather rated it really liked it

Shelves: audiobook

This audiobook was incredible. Woodson's storytelling is so riveting and it was a joy to listen to. I was completely invested in it and if anything, I wanted more. I think the format of this really lends itself well to an audiobook too - the poetic nature of the writing was a bit harder for me to read in print although it is still lovely. ...more

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Jan 12, 2015 Caryl rated it it was amazing

Shelves: re-read, audiobook, shelf-sitter, poetry, botkb-2015, cwb-2016, 7210

Such a beautiful book. Everyone should read this.

Edited to add: Picked this one again, as it was chosen for my alma mater's Conversation with Books, and now I think I should reread it every year. If you haven't read it yet, do! ...more

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