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I‘m on a Morrison kick! Found this on a used book shelf at the back of a funky store in downtown Gunnison CO. #BelovedTrilogyPart3 #tbr

My 'challenge' this year is to... “Re-Read“! I began where it all begun for me! When I was seventeen, I read 'Paradise' and it made me want to be a Literature teacher! 36 years on... I am still in awe of this magnificent text. It is amazing! It demands you pay attention chronologically. The narrative is sweeping, yet exactI Stunning! Persist and pursue this marvellous text as it is, truly, paradise!

And this brings my year of Toni Morrison reading to a close.
This is in her style, lyrical, raw, filled with complex characters and often a harsh world. I very much enjoyed all of her books.

#Paradise is a shelf full of Toni Morrison ❤📚❤ #tonimorrison

Can't figure out what to start next, this should give me some options.

See @Andrew65 s post for more info
#FabulousFebruary readathon

#IntegrateYourShelf

I‘m surprised with the low Litsy rating for this because I absolutely loved it. So powerful. So engrossing. Covers an often overlooked part of US history while exploring racism/colorism/feminism/capitalism/generation gap & their intersections & tensions all with a page turning plot and Morrison‘s jaw dropping prose and fascinating characters. At its heart a novel about reconciling with the past in order to be free. 5🌟
#DoubleSpin #BookSpinBingo

I think I would have appreciated this story much more in print... there were just too many characters and jumps in timelines for me to keep track of on audio. If I‘d had a paper copy I could have reoriented myself as needed. I might have to revisit it someday

I have discovered you don‘t have to go far from home to discover paradise! #paradise #boundtogetherjune @OriginalCyn620 @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#7days7books
Day 3
Seven books that made a deep impression and changed me.

Tagging @Liz_M if you want to join in.

I enjoyed this, it wasn‘t my favourite Morrison but then that was probably partly my mindset finding it difficult to focus on reading in the middle of such a stressful time. I found the plot harder to follow and connect with than the other ones of hers I‘ve read but then I guess not every one can be my fave. I‘d like to come back to it when I‘m less stressed and worried

#stayhome24in48

I've been so stressed lately that I haven't been able to enjoy things. I think that made it harder for me to remember what had already happened in the book, and I just couldn't focus while reading it.

“Unique and isolated, his was a town justifiably pleased with itself. It neither had nor needed a jail. No criminal had ever come from his town.” 🤣🤣🤣

Blind date with a book display at the library I should have taken a pic of it. This is the book I picked and inside is a book I already own but have not read 😂.

#RedRoseSeptember Day 18: My #MerseyParadise is right here right now as we are “where the drownings are” as we literally drown in boxes and boxes of stuff we brought from Singapore. Meanwhile, the bookses are here! They are all here!! The babies just arrived yesterday.

I need this. 🧚‍♀️

Went to the second hand shop with my sister today and scored these 2 books for only €3! Always nice when I find books in those shops, since it's mostly all Dutch books

Paradise is a beautifully written, tragic novel centering around a conflict between an insular town and a nearby but separate house of misfit women. As always, Morrison‘s writing is poetic, profound, and emotional. I think this is one of her best. #tonimorrison

This one is not easy to wrap your mind around, due to the structure and the vast array of characters and the allusive storytelling. I admit I‘m not totally sure about everything that happened. But even with all of that, I was still so taken with the story, and of course the writing is stunning. You may not like all of the women in this book but you end up on their side anyway, against the men seeking to destroy them in more ways than one. 4/5 ⭐️

How exquisitely human was the wish for permanent happiness, and how thin human imagination became trying to achieve it.

The sky was behaving like a showgirl: exchanging its pale melancholy mornings for sporty ribbons of color in the evening. A mineral scent was in the air, sweeping down from some Genesis time when volcanoes stirred and lava cooled quickly under relentless wind. Wind that scoured cold stone, then sculpted it and, finally, crumbled it to the bits rock hounds love.

From the table where she sat admiring her busy hands, the radio absence spread out. A quiet, secret fire breathing itself and exhaling the sounds of its increase: the crack of shells, the tick of nut meat tossed in the bowl, cooking utensils in eternal adjustment, insect whisper, the argue of long grass, the faraway cough of cornstalks.

Thankful that I got this one from my parents for my birthday so that it was waiting for me on my TBR shelves #RIP 💔 #nowreading

A fav author

#Paradise #JazzyJune #SongsofSummer

Day 18 - #Paradise #Bazzi #SongsofSummer

Listen here: https://youtu.be/x90WLRa5uGo

“The visionary language of the doomed reaches heights of linguistic ardor with which language of the blessed and saved cannot compete.”

#StarTrekSummerJune | 13: #Paradise

📷: Made with Typorama

Yep. Perfect paradise. Reading and beach breezes. #maymadness

Struggling with digital books these days. I wanted to like this, but I think I missed a lot because I read it sporadic fits and starts. Will more than likely go back and re-read at another time.

An intergenerational drama that is artful and haunting. This story of an isolated patriarchal town shows how, despite noble goals, patriarchy, capitalism, and colorism are the mechanisms of our own societal demise. Even the structure of the novel and its fluid handling of time feels poetic.

Paradise has an all-time great opening line: "They shot the white girl first." The novel tells the stories of myriad characters, from twin brothers who helped found an all-black town to a woman with mysterious healing powers to a progressive minister to a series of runaways. Morrison examines what happens when the oppressed gain power and how patriarchal communities doom themselves.

It‘s been a goal to have a book nook in my home. Well, that goal has finally been realized. A DIY with my parents! 😍😍😍😍

Found this on FB was quoted as a perfect room but take all the furniture out but the couch add a hammock and it would be a bedroom paradise 😋📖📚📚📚

You might look at these challenging authors and conclude #sheaintworthit But.....you'd be wrong... totally worth it 😉
#HeatofJuly @BarbaraBB @Cinfhen

So this happened today. I know I just walked around with my jaw dropped to the floor. Seriously beautiful.

Following up my last post and being grateful for the little things, I should also say that finding a hardcover copy of this gem for only $3 ... pretty darn awesome 💚💚💚 I think I'm up to 3 different copies of this one now #donttellthehubs #sorrynotsorry #hedoesntuselitsy #secretissafe

"They shoot the white girl first"
#PlotTwist on the first line of page one! Morrison really makes you consider the racecraft at work in U.S. society.
@Mdargusch @emilyhaldi @Reviewsbylola @Cinfhen

I love Toni but this book was so hard to follow. I found myself having to read the same page over to comprehend the story line.

I can hear Maya Angelou‘s voice in my head as I read her first memoir. I wish I‘d known to appreciate her writing when I first became acquainted with it, but I was newly 14 when she read the inaugural poem in 1993.

I‘m struggling with Paradise. There are so many characters, and each chapter is dense. I feel as though it‘s a better book than I am a reader.

Working on my challenge lists for 2018 as a means to distract myself from my book buying ban (1 month in, 1 to go!). I‘ve got most of the #192019challenge picked out. About half will also work for #MtTBR and a good number of #LitsyAtoZ are also covered. I almost feel like that‘s cheating, but I‘ll go with great planning. 😁

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#womenofcolor #readingwomenmonth

Fave First Line - Toni Morrison was on a mission with this first line, which is intriguing, audacious, and poignant. It's one of the last of her 2 novels I have left to read along with Love. #biblioplhileworldmaychallenge #paradise #thequeen #readsoullit #blacklit

Read this a few months ago and it instantly became one of my all-time favorites- thought it would be perfect for today's #Rockinmay. About so many things but its depiction of small town life is vivid and nuanced-- examines the forces that bind the town members together and what divides them. @Cinfhen

Adventures in the sunshine...