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Toni Morrison

3.8 of 5 Votes: 2
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https://booksminority.net/toni-morrison
gender
female
website
http://www.tonimorrisonsociety.org/
 
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Books by Toni Morrison
Please, Louise (2014)
language
English
3.41 of 5 Votes: 1
review 1: The illustrations are beautiful, but this story just didn't quite work for me as a whole, even though I really wanted/expected it to because of the author. Parts of it worked well, but the complete overall story arc didn't quite connect enough for me. I appreciate what was trying...
Recitatif (1983)
language
English
4.09 of 5 Votes: 5
review 1: Recitatif is about two children who are friends from childhood—one black and one white. The main characters’ lives intersect over many years. The prime point about the story is that Morrison never tells us which character is white and which is black. By doing so, she is intending...
Burn This Book: PEN Writers Speak Out on the Power of the Word (2009)
language
English
3.58 of 5 Votes: 1
review 1: A powerful collection of essays on the power of writing - in particular, Nadine Gordimer's writing about the novel as a means of witnessing the world is amazing and provides an interesting balance to Russell Bank's equally interesting meditation on protest literature but the crem...
O Que Me Diz, Louise? (2014)
language
English
3.42 of 5 Votes: 5
review 1: Yeah! Another great book for Librarians to read about Libraries!!! Sweet and gentle, rhyming text, girl of color. Doesn't hit you over the head with the message, in fact, we don't get to the library until the book is half done. We can use the theme of using the library/books to...
Peeny Butter Fudge (2009)
language
English
3.27 of 5 Votes: 2
review 1: "Peeny Butter Fudge" by Toni Morrison is a great book. A mother leaves her three children with their grandma. The mother leaves a schedule that she wants them to follow. Instead the grandma wants be cool and do things her way. They completely blew off the schedule and had so much...
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