Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1) in The Insecure Writer's Support Group Book Club

Jul 15, 2012 Samantha rated it it was amazing

Beloved is something really different among ghost stories. It startled me the first time I read it, and continues to do so on every re-read. When a person's figurative haunting becomes flesh and walks in the front door? Shivers every time. Even though I remembered a lot of the story since it hadn't been THAT long since I last read it, it still felt fresh and different and new.

Beloved is wonderfully complex and moving, letting me into the hearts and histories of the characters and leaving me fee ...more

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Nov 21, 2019 Kalpana Misra rated it it was amazing

Beautiful, lyrical writing. Chilling plot.

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Dec 05, 2007 Karin Mitchell rated it it was amazing

Shelves: african-american, women-s, fiction

This is still the most beautifully constructed, masterfully structured, brilliant piece of art I've gotten to read in my life. This was my fourth (I think) reading and it had been more than 18 years since I'd last read it. And still, STILL I cried at the end from just how incredibly powerful it was. It should be read aloud. It should be read more than once. This book dispells any myths of slavery white culture of the 1980s might have tried to hold tight to. Structured like memory, it jumps in ti ...more

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Oct 01, 2012 Nancy Johnson rated it it was amazing

Just excellent. A book I'll remember forever. Though highly complex and difficult to get sometimes, the book along with the movie made for a wonderful combination that beat all. The book helped to understand the movie better, and the movie helped to understand the book better. I thought the book was poetic and the story amazing. ...more

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