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Don't quite know where to begin with this one. What a difficult, lovely puzzle of a book!
Their Eyes Were Watching God is a really vibrant novel, full of colorful characters and humor and life.
At the same time, a difficult book, documenting a difficult time in American history. It's all here - racism, patriarchy, domestic violence, Jim Crow laws, you name it. These oppressive systems are deeply internalized by the main characters.
Although Janie, Hurston's plucky mixed-race heroine hungers for fr ...more
Their Eyes Were Watching God is a really vibrant novel, full of colorful characters and humor and life.
At the same time, a difficult book, documenting a difficult time in American history. It's all here - racism, patriarchy, domestic violence, Jim Crow laws, you name it. These oppressive systems are deeply internalized by the main characters.
Although Janie, Hurston's plucky mixed-race heroine hungers for fr ...more
This audiobook read by Ruby Dee is among the top 5 best audiobooks I've experienced. I listened to it on cassettes about 15 years ago, one of the first audiobooks I tried. At the time, I was mesmerized, totally forgot that Ruby Dee was doing the performance and simply saw each character in my mind. When I discovered it recently on my library's shelves in cd format, I listened to it again, thinking that it couldn't have been as good as I remembered. Well, it is and maybe even more so. There is a
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Wow.
""Two things everybody's got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin' fuh theyselves.""
""Love is lak de sea. It's a movin' thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it's different with every shore."" ...more
""Love is lak de sea. It's a movin' thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it's different with every shore."" ...more
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