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Mar 16, 2024srd10 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
None of the readers are worthy of the pain (and, the incredible intellectual talent) that went into this book
Dec 25, 2023JMLEMMA rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
From the author's own Forward: "...public figures eager to set the record straight (Angela Davis, Muhammad Ali, Huey Newton)".
Nov 29, 2023nooraskender rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
ive never witnessed such a sheer display of talent. her prose is unmatched
Nov 24, 2023MyeshaTM rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
“I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which is not beloved.”~Romans 9:25 The introduction could honestly have gone at the end along with all the bonus content we get about the book before it starts…
Oct 23, 2023betsymarzoni rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
This novel has been on my "to read" list for literally decades. Thanks to Lisa Casper and her Book Lovers Bingo Challenge, I finally read it! There were parts where I had to be patient and trust that Morrison would reveal or explain…
Oct 15, 2023chrpha17 rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
I truly think Beloved by Toni Morrison is a story you can spend forever dissecting and still continue to find new things. It is also one that you can so clearly tell Morrison put a lot of thought and effort into. The story is about an…
Jul 31, 2023AndrewLi07 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
"Beloved" by Toni Morrison is a deeply profound and moving novel that confronts the harrowing legacy of slavery in America. Through the story of Sethe, a woman haunted by her past, Morrison explores the psychological and physical scars…
May 24, 2023Pfeilm rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
A recently banned book from the Spotsylvania, Virginia school libraries. Yes, I can see where parts may make someone "uncomfortable", but no where to the point of banning it from high school libraries. Yes, it also does not show the white…
Mar 05, 2023c8_19 rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
Oh, boy...Another Morrison I'm having trouble figuring out how to best state my thoughts about. This is my third one of hers and probably the one I enjoyed the most, though that's a little bit of a mixed feeling. As with the other two,…
Mar 01, 2023EBirdy rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
I read this for the Challenged book group that's being done at Mecklenburg Libraries. It was good in many ways. It requires patience though - not a book you can fly through. Morrison's descriptions of events that happened to slaves were…
Feb 27, 2023Griffeth rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
The best ghost stories have always underscored the blurred lines between the past and present. They force these mutually exclusive states into uncomfortable proximity, and the resulting perversion of our subconscious sense of rightness and…
Nov 09, 2022
March book club
Sep 02, 2022fred98115 rated this title 1 out of 5 stars
Varied writing style, generally complex, makes this a difficult read. In Ohio, just north of the river, a family, living there just after the Civil War, is visited by the ghost of a baby killed by her mother.
Aug 27, 2022tjdickey rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
A masterfully-woven narrative quilt whose wraps and tangles both comfort and smother, Beloved touches our innermost places with the horror of life lived in slavery, and the first tentative and broken human efforts to re-discover family…
Jul 29, 2022SeekAndDestroy rated this title 0.5 out of 5 stars
This is a flat out awful book. Please stop making students read this.
Jul 22, 2022woggle rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
Couldn't get past page 5. Didn't understand the wording and who's who!
May 04, 2022janessa22 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Beloved by Toni Morrison is about a woman named Sethe who escaped slavery and now lives in a house haunted by her dead baby’s ghost. While coming home one day, Sethe sees a mysterious young woman at her front door. The woman ends up living…
Apr 08, 2022MWB2005 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Beloved is a novel about a house, which holds a mother, her daughter, a ghost, and a grandmother who lives only for the harmlessness of color. The mother, Sethe, has freed herself, her daughter, and her two run-away sons from slavery. Yet…
Feb 24, 2022SPL_Emma rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
**#FTRWEEK 2022** Toni Morrison’s Beloved, first published in 1987, famously frequents the American Library Association’s yearly 10 Most Challenged Books list. The novel is based on the true life events of Margaret Garner, a Black mother…
Jan 25, 2022
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Dec 17, 2021MonicaYRLiu rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
This is a story about the bitterness of slavery in the country. Sethe, a fugitive woman slave, lives with her youngest daughter Denver in 124 Bluestone road. 124 is haunted by a ghost for more than ten years, and people believe that it is…
Dec 13, 2021maryebarr rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
I read this book because it was on this list in the book The Reading List. It is the reflection of those who had been enslaved in the late 1800's and is difficult to read. It also is a ghost story. I listened to the book, and it is read…
Dec 11, 2021
This novel reads like a biography and is clearly a reflection of the Black experience in 19th Century America, especially as it relates to those who fled from slavery. Those hyping the CRT hysteria object to this book using sex scenes as…
Dec 05, 2021losalvarez rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
I picked this because it's a ghost story. And it delivers on that in every respect. But I didn't expect it to be so much more. So so much more. This is not a good book, it's a great one. It's a heavy read, for sure, but I struggle to…
Nov 29, 2021
I read this book because it was on Listopia's 300 books everyone should read once list. It was neither good nor bad. I found it kindof creepy. It is a good book for Halloween time.