Night by Elie Wiesel 🔖🔖🔖🔖
Looking for Alaska by John Green ✖️
Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly ✖️
Night by Elie Wiesel 🔖🔖🔖🔖
Looking for Alaska by John Green ✖️
Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly ✖️
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Awards: Winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize • Winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize • Winner of the 1988 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award • Winner of the 1988 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award
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Sethe works at beating back the past, but it makes itself heard and felt incessantly in her memory and in the lives of those around her. When a mysterious teenage girl arrives, calling herself Beloved, Sethe’s terrible secret explodes into the present.
Combining the visionary power of legend with the unassailable truth of history, Morrison’s unforgettable novel is one of the great and enduring works of American literature. (Source: goodreads)
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When I first tried to read this 13 years ago, I allowed narrowness to stop me after chapter one. Thankfully I've grown up since then.
This is one of the most amazing pieces of literature I have ever read. I was engaged, moved, invested, outraged, sad, disgusted. And so aware of my privilege of being able to shut the book and "forget" this is real life.How does one actually rate a book which has lived on as a classic for nearly 2500 years? That fact alone implies it's worth reading.
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I read this one as it is a commonly banned book. I can see why parents are uncomfortable with this book, though I do not support it being banned. There are more than 100 F words and numerous references to the sucking of d*ck.
There were some really solid morals to this story and the levels in which the main character learned them were believable and well done. I do think it could have been done without the overabundance of cursing and d*ck references.Night by Elie Wiesel 🔖🔖🔖🔖 Looking for Alaska by John Green ✖️ Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly ✖️