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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)

Maya Angelou

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Feb 20, 2015 Emily rated it really liked it

Shelves: read-in-2015, 2015-reading-challenge

Anglou's tale is a stark retelling of a life so foreign to my own as to almost make me feel like I was reading a fantasy novel rather than an autobiography. And yet, this is what literature is for--to allow us to live in the skin of another, even for a few hundred pages. I will never truly understand what it was to grow up poor, black, and female in the depression-ridden south, but thanks to books like this, I can have an inkling.

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Dec 29, 2012 Tanya rated it liked it

Shelves: list-1001-btrbyd, format-audiobook, list-1001-btrbyd-2006, list-1001-btrbyd-core, 2015, challenge-2015-popsugar

This was difficult as an audiobook because of the cadence of her speech. It felt as though she was a bit detached from the subject, or else that is just because some of the themes are so very difficult. I can see why this is on the core list of books for the 1,001 books to read before you die challenge. But I also had difficulty the first couple of times I tried to read this one as the pacing is cumbersome for me. If not for wanting to complete this as a category for the 2015 PopSugar reading ch ...more

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