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I was enjoying this but not loving it until the hurricane hit. From that point on I was really hooked and it was fascinating how it all went from there, even though I did guess the significance of the dog’s bite. I had been quite put off by Teacake and the $200 he stole, and that combined with the attempts to shoot Janie at the end... He wasn’t my favourite character, to put it simply, and I think that slightly influenced my ability to otherwise enjoy Janie’s taking her life into her own hands a
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Kathleen
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Exceptionally beautiful writing and story. I listened to the audio version read by Ruby Dee. Pure joy. Although I usually prefer having book in hand, this was an exception.
Wow, this is just spectacular. So sad that it was out of print for so long. I listened on audio, and the performance by Ruby Dee blew me away.
Set in Jim Crow era Florida, it tells the dramatic life of Janie, a beautiful black woman, as she goes through husbands and hardships.
I have tried and failed at reading several Toni Morrison stories, and I had the same expectation for this book. It too is lyrical and poetic, and it also has a lot of the “hard facts of life,” but I was just so enthralled ...more
Set in Jim Crow era Florida, it tells the dramatic life of Janie, a beautiful black woman, as she goes through husbands and hardships.
I have tried and failed at reading several Toni Morrison stories, and I had the same expectation for this book. It too is lyrical and poetic, and it also has a lot of the “hard facts of life,” but I was just so enthralled ...more
Such beautiful writing- “She often spoke to falling seeds and said, ‘Ah hope you fall on soft ground,’ because she had heard seeds saying that to each other as they passed.” Definitely a story that will never leave me.
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