pickSapphire‘s story is heartbreaking and also injected with a healthy amount of humour. A young girl whose life was filled with monsters (emotional & physical abuse, rape…) Yet somehow her spirit could not to be crushed. She always fought for her life. If you‘re looking for an example of resilience then you should read this book. But be prepared for lots of cries. There were days when I could not get past only a couple of pages.
pickI remember when the movie version of this came out. I didn‘t see it, but wow, what a powerful book!
For #pridemonth2020, I'm highlighting 30 openly LGBTQ+ authors. Sapphire is an American writer and poet, and recipient of a Fellow Award. She is openly bisexual, and has used adverse experiences in her own life to inform her writing. #lgbtqvoices #blackvoices #lgbtqauthors #blackauthors #pocauthors #bisexual #poetry
pickWow... just wow. Raw and powerful and heartbreaking. I can‘t believe I am just reading this now.
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pickSuch an intensively raw and woeful story, this was by no means an easy read. The language was fowl and the explicit descriptions of abuse vulgar, yet I found Preciouses determination inspiring.
This one may be fiction but sadly there are too many real stories like this one
Tries to Give a sense of future and what lies ahead
Can‘t help root for her when she realizes there is more to life than what she knows
Defiance hope and humanity
pickSmall book, big story.
« Don‘t know when, don‘t know how, maybe hold it back a long long time, but one day it‘s gonna rain. »
pickJust finished reading, watching and discussing this for movie/book club. I liked both better than I thought I would. The book is short also so you don't have to read the horrible abusiveness for 300+ pgs.
I'm listening to this on audio as well as one other. Unusual because I don't do well with audio books. But this also has a great narrator: Bahni Turpin.
#forcoloredgirlsBookClub #currentlyreading
pickThere but for the grace of god is something I regularly say after reading about horrific lives like Sapphire‘s. Think you have it bad? I suggest you read this.
pickWow. just wow. The life she lived is so sad. The book is very detailed and graphic. I like the way the author writes the book as if it's Precious writing it. You can see her writing improving throughout the story. How far she has come. It is just so good.
#blackhistorymonth I read this book last year for my book club, but it still leaves an impression to this day. Horrific and sad, yet it leaves you with a glimmer of hope. Didn't see the movie, don't think I could.
Pop sugar reading challenge #36 Push-A book set in the decade you were born overdrive
pickNever saw the film, but an incredible novel. The task of trying to write as a previously illiterate high school girl who has just learned to read and write is something I think only a poet with a gift for language like Sapphire could pull off. She captures the MC, Precious, with an adept blend of warmth and realism. Her past traumas are horrifying (rape TW), but she's a complete inspiration in persevering to read, write, and raise her baby right.
Ol' Cornrows say bring self, pencil, and notebook. I got self, pencil, and notebook. Can I get a witness! I'm outta here!
(For just a moment this passage made me smile so big! - Precious is off to (alternative) school)
#youngAmericans #septembowie a few of my YA collection and an odd #pairing a photo of this morning's forest fire hazed sun and my book collection #fallintobooks
pickThis book was absolutely heart-breaking. I don't know that I could watch the movie. 💔
pickI really liked this book. I think it is definitely worth the read, be warned it is very graphic. This book deals with a lot of issues with regards to race, poverty, incest, teenage pregnancy to name a few. It is the book behind the film Precious.
My late night read 🤓📖🌙
pickNão é um livro fácil de avaliar e comentar. Este livro conta-nos uma história muito delicada... Mas a Precious é, sem dúvida, uma menina guerreira!! Apesar de toda a merda por que passou, apesar de estar sozinha no mundo, onde até a própria mãe a maltratava e ajudava a que fosse constantemente violada, ela conseguiu ir buscar, bem lá no fundo do seu ser, a sua força interior e enfrentar tudo e todos e dar a volta por cima! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
pickAquele tipo de livro que te mata por dentro! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
E eu que já não me lembrava que tinha este livro por terminar??
Beach read for Key West. Might not have been the best choice but when you stumble upon a used book store on vacation and you find a book you've been looking for you buy it and read it right then.
#bookishpetpeeve
When you can no longer find any cover but the movie tie in version. Especially annoying when they change the title for the movie, and the cover now reads (for example) "Precious: based on the novel Push by Sapphire." And I just want to scream "No! No! That IS the novel Push by Sapphire! It is based on nothing but the author's own mind!!!"
Rant complete. Thank you for this mini book therapy.
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My ambitious #TBR for the #24in48 #readathon. I'm starting with Push, which I've been meaning to read for ages!
Before the movie Precious, before the book even pubbed, I read an ARC.
This book was a game-changer for me.
I had no clue a book could be this.
Then I got to meet Sapphire + get my ARC signed ❤️
20 years ago! Oh,my time flies when you are reading good books 📚✨📚✨📚✨
#signedsundays
pickSoooooo good omg. It's spelled in the perspective of how Precious writes and she's dyslexic and doesn't really know how to read and write at first but you see progression with her spelling throughout the book. Sad I finished 😭 loved it !!
pickHeartbreaking to think a child (even fictional) would have to live a life like "Precious".
pickI remember thinking this was really beautiful. A touching story about an unforgettable girl and the importance to be able to read and write. Did you read it? Also, #funfridayphoto day by @Liberty In Swedish the book is called Precious, which I think is appropriate with my little cutie ❤️
pickThis was a rough one, but good.
Precious: Based On The Novel Push | 
