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Sep 29, 2017 Anne (Booklady) Molinarolo rated it really liked it

Shelves: classics, literary-fiction, permanent-library, historical, reading-women, fall-2017

I can't believe this little gem was never taught in my high school or college years! Perhaps, I'd not have enjoyed or understood it. Janie is a wonderful and wondrous character. Her story is told through her POV mostly and her voice is strong, except when she needed her voice. Then, it was silent.

That worried me and surprised me, for Janie is a strong woman. Lord, she had to be. She survived three men, a hurricane, a mad dog, and people's wagging tongues.

This is a love story. This is a story a ...more

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Nov 04, 2013 Diana S rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: read-in-2016, remember-2016

3.5 stars

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Aug 28, 2016 Rusty rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: classic

I loved this book. It's such a well written romance about a woman who lives her life as she wishes. Married three times, the last one is the love of her life. Her grandmother insisted on the first because she would have someone to take care of her once she died. Her parents had died earlier. The second marriage was a mistake but when Janie Crawford met Tea Cake she falls hard and in spite of his age marries him when he asks. Janie is much older than Tea Cake but they have a happy, happy marriage ...more

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Oct 03, 2012 Kaitlin rated it it was ok

This story is not at all empowering. Rather than seeing the protagonist as a powerful figure finding her way in the world, I saw her as a victim of her surroundings, attaching herself to the closest man and then suffering the consequences.

Other than that, I didn't see a point to the story. I understand that this was written in a very different time and that black women's choices were profoundly limited. I guess I was looking for it to be a tale of breaking through walls and finding oneself (as t ...more

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Jul 25, 2019 Veronica rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

One of the most sexiest, romantic phrases written in a book. It made me want to pine for love again. Have that feeling when I first met my husband. I understood all of the colorful characters. Most of all Janie I understood the most. BTW. Janie is my paternal grandma’s name.

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