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Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)

Toni Morrison

Start date: June 1, 2022

Finish date: June 30, 2022

Discussion: 2022 Monthly Group Reads

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Aug 19, 2018 Chelsea rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: great-american-read

BRUTAL. I dreaded picking this up, because of the raw, yet poetic, emotional and horrific scenes. The guilt and grief of Sethe I felt myself. The unimaginable choice and the consequences she lived with are just too much for me. I am glad (or maybe not..??) I waited to read this until I have my own children to better understand some of the emotions this book smacked me with.
I have never read anything like this. So painful and so necessary. And yet, when I was around the halfway mark I was think ...more

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Feb 25, 2020 Astrid Lim rated it liked it

Shelves: tragedy, classic, literature, historical-fiction, america, magical-realism, african-american, popsugar-2020

3.5 stars from me. It's a very difficult and tough book for so many reasons. I'd like to give it more stars but Toni Morrison's style is a bit too vague for me. I understand her ingenious used of metaphors, magical realism and symbolism concept, and of course all the "read between the lines" moments. No sentence is wasted, everything has a meaning (hidden or plain).

The difficult topic is quite draining. Slavery is never easy to be digested. Especially in this book - a plot inspired by a true sto ...more

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Feb 10, 2010 Katie rated it it was ok

Thank GOD it's over! For a relatively short book, it took me forever to finish this be-otch. Having really enjoyed TM's other novels (esp. Song of Solomon), I was bummed to not love this one. At all. Not at all. Maybe the timing was off (i.e. it just wasn't a great time for me to read this book), but I just never connected with any of the characters/storylines, and spent way too much time trying to figure out whose story I was reading and piecing together nuggets of details to really enjoy any o ...more

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Apr 13, 2024 Megan rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorites, pulitzer, historical-fiction, 2024-unread-shelf-challenge

It started slow, but I could not put it down for the last 100 pages or so. It was such a well told story of trauma.

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: 1988

Format: Print (Paperback)

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