Beloved - Part Two

[Alana]

Please discuss Part Two here.

[Jill]

The story itself is gripping, but the I'm kind of lost with the stream of consciousness chapters… I can't make heads or tails of it.

[Alana]

I felt that way, too. It was a little better by the end, but there's a lot of tedious, confusing sections in the middle.

[Irene]

I remember feeling confused but never tedious.

[Alana]

Irene wrote: "I remember feeling confused but never tedious."

I think my problem was the audio. It may need to be taken in by the eyes and viewed, not just listened to. Although Morrison has a delightful, soothing voice to listen to.

[Irene]

I do 90% of my reading via audio because Braille is combersom and less available. Most of my audio is computer voice as I scan books into my computer and have it read it back or use download programs that convert text to computer speech. So, the audio part of it was not a problem for me.

[Jill]

Irene, that's really neat that you can scan books into the computer and have the program read them back to you!

[Irene]

Yes, the technological advances to aid with reading over the past 2 or 3 decades is amazing. I wish half of it was available when I was going through grad school.

[Pallavi]

I finished the book yesterday :(
And on Part 2, I feel by the time I reached this point in the book I got used to going back and forth in the story. The way how Morrison has woven the story is so unique.