AllHailTheQueen

Next up—SWING TIME! #AllHailTheQueen (Dylan and I have similar feelings about this book. 😂😻🐶)

I live inland from the SC coast, but I have family and friends being evacuated because of #hurricaneMatthew. Please keep them in your thoughts and prayers over the weekend. Mine go out to all of my Litsy friends effected by the storm. Glad to see the #HurricaneMatthewTBR posts out there and that you are all keeping your spirits up! Be safe everyone!

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Alfoster Oh my...hope they are all safe!🙏🙏🙏 8y

[DELETED] 2232195534 Will definitely keep them in my prayers. Hope all will be safe... 8y

Godmotherx5 Hoping Matthew calms down & everyone is safe. 8y

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bookwrm526 Same here, hunkering down after meeting for brunch with some friends who evacuated from the coast - the rain is starting to pick up 8y

Notafraidofwords I second it! 8y

LilMamaMastro I live in the Midlands of SC but I am on the West coast right now. One of my sons lives in Charleston so he evacuated to my house (relief!). I've been so worried about everyone in "the path." Protective thoughts...... 8y

kdwinchester @LilMamaMastro I live in the upstate and we're just getting rain, but it's very dark. Glad you are out of town for this! 8y

kdwinchester @bookwrm526 same here. Def picked up last night. 8y

kdwinchester @Alfoster @kaysreadinglife @Godmotherx5 The family in Florida is fine, but we haven't heard about how much property damage they have. Now waiting until the storm passes to hear how those in SC are doing. Thanks for your prayers and well-wishes! 8y

bookwrm526 @kdwinchester we are in the midlands - lots of rain and some areas are flooded but not near me, the wind is crazy scary, but the rain is supposed to stop around 4 8y

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Yossarian

Beloved | Toni Morrison

BELOVED SLOW JAM, Topic 0.1: Pre-reading: "124 was spiteful. Full of a baby's venom." GREAT first two sentences? Or GREATEST first two sentences in the history of literature?

sofiaga I am on chapter 10 and it is a books that is really beautiful and strange. 9y

MyBookLife Beautiful!! Have you started reading? 9y

Yossarian @MyBookLife Yes! The first two sentences! I'm sucking them in for a while. The second one isn't even a complete sentence -- just a fragment. That's probably why I had time to read both of them. 9y

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Yossarian Like I said, I'm a slow reader. We should all finish Chapter One by Saturday, and be ready to discuss. 9y

MyBookLife @Yossarian I'm impressed!! You are way ahead of me!! I'm also a slow reader, and I don't think I will be able to catch up 😭😭 Hihi! When are you gonna read the third sentence? 9y

MyBookLife @Yossarian Saturday! Thank you! I had missed that :) 9y

Yossarian @MyBookLife okay, I'll give you a pass this time, but don't go reading ahead and ruining it for the whole class. 9y

MyBookLife @Yossarian I can't make any promises!! 😉 It'll be fun reading a (hopefully) good book together this time! 9y

gatsbygirl I LOVE this book. Achingly beautiful and heartbreaking. Which group is reading it? 9y

Yossarian @gatsbygirl Just me. I'm not really a group except in the Walt Whitman "I contain multitudes" sense. But I invited people to read with me. Read Chapter One by this weekend and join in, if you'd like! 9y

Abby2 Amazing book! 9y

HeatherBookNerd I read it last year and was just riveted. It has this haunting, mysterious quality. Definitely want to read more Toni Morrison. 9y

LeahBergen Oh, that first sentence! I read this several years ago and your photo just re-slayed me. 9y

MrsMarks88 The characters in this book are so well written! I wasn't a big fan of the book but it makes for an interesting read and the story has stayed with me ever since! I'll be interested to hear your views! 9y

Sammie This book is one that you sort of don't know how to feel about it at first by it will stay with you for your whole life. The horror and trauma of slavery are so well explicated. Morrison deserves that Nobel prize so much. #allhailthequeen 9y

nyashajunior I need to re-read it but not in the summer. 9y

LauraLeah Love the writing in this book. Very glad you are organizing a reading of it. 9y

Susannah I tend not to like GOAT designations, so I'll say two *of the greatest* opening sentences in all of literature. I wonder what other writers think of their own work when they read these sentences and then go on to read how Morrison unpacks them.... Definitely two of the greatest. 9y

Little_Reader Juxtaposing the innocence of a baby and the anger of venom is what makes this opening so hauntingly effective. Pure genius! I love it! 9y

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