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Jun 04, 2017
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This is a real cacophony of book. Many powerful voices in the characterisation and story telling but so difficult to keep up with and enjoy as a pure read.

It's been a long time since I read anything by Toni Morrison, but I've enjoyed everything I've read--or if not precisely enjoyed, I've appreciated everything I've read, as her books might not be described as fun.
Song of Solomon was no exception: difficult events, characters who developed over the course of the book, revealing different ways of understanding events if we first learned one perspective, then another.
I also realize that experiencing her writing at 35 is a whole different thing that ...more
Song of Solomon was no exception: difficult events, characters who developed over the course of the book, revealing different ways of understanding events if we first learned one perspective, then another.
I also realize that experiencing her writing at 35 is a whole different thing that ...more

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