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I read this one for book club. While it's interesting and engaging, it just left me with this really awful feeling. I was impressed with how Octavia combined time travel with slavery in the 1800s and that she employed some interesting tactics to go along with it. (Somewhere in Time could have borrowed one of these tactics in order to be less depressing.) However, some parts were brutal and horrifying and other parts just dragged and could have been cut out altogether. Some things weren't really
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Octavia Butler is an author that's been on the edge of my awareness for a while, but I've always shied away because science fiction isn't my favorite. But Kindred is much more historical fiction than science fiction, and it was well worth the wait.
Dana, a young black woman with a white husband living in 1970s Baltimore, suddenly finds herself jerked back and forth through time between her home and a plantation in Virginia in the years before the Civil War. She appears to be attached to a young w ...more
Dana, a young black woman with a white husband living in 1970s Baltimore, suddenly finds herself jerked back and forth through time between her home and a plantation in Virginia in the years before the Civil War. She appears to be attached to a young w ...more
Both too long and too short at the same time. This is an intense read that forces you to evaluate the state of things both present and past.
Jul 01, 2018
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it was amazing
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Larissa
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it was amazing
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Jul 13, 2021
Annie
marked it as to-read-b2f
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