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>112 have you read much else by Morrison? I don't think Sula is one of her best, personally. 41. Sula by Toni Morrison. Audio book. This is really not any kind of classic IMO but I loved the message the book sends at the end, that the love of a man is not always as important as the love of a good friend and I also thought some of the images were beautiful e.g. Sula arriving back in Medall ... ... been thinking about The Paperboy. Paris Trout remains one of my favorite books and the characters remind me a lot of Sula by Toni Morrison. ... isn't it?
Are we going to get to come up with a combined screen name, LadyN? LadyS? Sulady? Oh, hey! Touchstone! Sula.
ETA: Touchstone died. I guess we won't use that name. ;)
ETA: Works now. ... Speigelman
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro
Duplicate Keys by Jane Smiley
Sula by Toni Morrison
Kissing in Manhattan by David Schickler
The Finishing School by Muriel Spark
Who Will Run the Frog Hospital by Lorrie Moore
... ...
The Bluest Eye is not as sophisticated feeling, there is a connection there that I didn’t feel with Beloved, Sula, Song of Solomon or even A Mercy and I feel that is what makes it my favorite. You are told right up front "quiet as it's kept" what Pecola's problem is, not kept ... I. Fiction that doesn't fit elsewhere...
2. Sula by Toni Morrison
This reads something like an extended fable, beautifully written and full of meaning. Here, Morrison has packed up all of the color of her longer novels into a tight tale about a small town and its inhabitants, centered ... 15. Sula by Toni Morrison
This reads something like an extended fable, beautifully written and full of meaning. Here, Morrison has packed up all of the color of her longer novels into a tight tale about a small town and its inhabitants, centered around two girls. The book is full of both ... ... 02/18/09
057. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison 02/19/09
058. Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence 02/20/09
059. Sula by Toni Morrison 02/21/09
060. A Sorrow Beyond Dreams by Peter Handke 02/21/09
FILM: The Science of Sleep (2006) 059. Sula by Toni Morrison 02/21/09
060. A Sorrow Beyond Dreams by Peter Handke 02/21/09 ... is Red
Elfriede Jenelik: I've read the Piano Teacher
Toni Morrison: FAVORITE I've read The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon and Beloved. Bluest Eye and Song of Solomon are two of my fav. novels of all time. For some reason, I just can't get through her recent works. I've ... ... My Name is Red
Elfriede Jenelik: I've read the Piano Teacher
Toni Morrison: I've read The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon and Beloved. Bluest Eye and Song of Solomon are two of my fav. novels of all time. For some reason, I just can't get through her recent works. I've ... ... My Name is Red
Elfriede Jenelik: I've read the Piano Teacher
Toni Morrison: I've read The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon and Beloved. Bluest Eye and Song of Solomon are two of my fav. novels of all time. For some reason, I just can't get through her recent works. I've ... ... about reading details in the paper over 15 years ago how a group of kids tortured a cat. Not to mention that scene in Sula (or is it The Bluest Eye?) Since then, I've had to avoid anything that hints of animal abuse. I even turn off the SPCA ads on TV.
I think that's why I haven't ... Reading: Flipping back and forth between Canvey Island by James Runcie and Sula by Toni Morrison. I should finish Canvey Island today, so then I'll turn my attention completely to Sula for a little while
Eating: It's not really eating, but I'm chewing a piece of Orbit Wintermint gum
Dr ... I'm currently reading both Canvey Island and Sula. ... Beloved, though the first chapter, which is written in Florens' voice threw me for a loop right from the get-go. As for Sula and Love, I couldn't say yet, as I haven't had a chance to read either of them so far. I may give them a whirl this year because now I feel almost an obligation to ... ... award winners, as well as Nobel laureates. Which is why I eventually got several Toni Morrison books at once (Beloved, Sula and Love). Before getting into her books though, I started reading The Black Book by Orhan Pamuk—another Nobel laureate—and became very upset when I ... ... Boll, 1974
214. The Book of Daniel by E.L. Doctorow, 1974
215. Surfacing by Margaret Atwood, 1973
216. *Sula by Toni Morrison, 1975
217. Crash by J.G. Ballard, 2005
218. The Siege of Krishnapur by J.G. Farrell, 1974
219. Fear of Flying by Erica Jong, 1974
220 ... ... wn
The Golem's Eye
Ptolemy's Gate
*The Reluctant God
Emma
Winds of Fate
Winds of Change
Winds of Fury
Sula
Fablehaven
To the Lighthouse
The Mysterious Benedict Society
*Twilight
*New Moon
*Eclipse
*Breaking Dawn
Ender in Exile
Beedle the Bard
*An ... ... Intuitionist, by Colson Whitehead, February, in English
5. The Color Purple by Alice Walker, February, in English
6. Sula by Toni Morrison, May, in English
6.5 Wouldn't Take Nothing For My Journey Now by Maya Angelou, June, in English (very short)
7. Love by Toni Morrison, December, ... ... de mis putas tristes in Spanish by Gabriel García Márquez
The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
Sula by Toni Morrison
House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Living Buddha, Living Christ by Thich Nhat Hanh
The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told ... ... for it to come out in paperback (or for a swap copy). I've read a lot of her earlier works--Song of Solomon, Tar Baby, Sula, The Bluest Eye, Beloved, and Paradise. I wasn't too crazy about the last listed, so I skipped Jazz and Love and anything else that came out in that period. ... #14 --> *whispers* It does to me, too.
There was a literature class I had signed up for that was supposed to read Sula but the class dropped because of low enrollment. That's the same reason I've never read Beowulf, though they were two separate classes.
My college classes didn't ... Funny how similar women in lit classes can be mine was a few years back and I had to read Sula and Housekeeping and To the Lighthouse. We also read criticism and poems by H.D. and I Rigoberta Menchu and The Gold Cell. There were others but I can't remember what they were at the moment.
... ... my final.
"Write an essay and discuss some of two (2) shifting views of women as they appear in To the Lighthouse and Sula. Also, include two or more references to selections we have read to support your ideas further. Try to use quotations here. Use a title, please, and number your pages. ... ... French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
126. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
127. Sula by Toni Morrison
128. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
129. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
130. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
... From CD1am's library I choose Sula. It's been a long time since I read anything by Toni Morrison. ... you all.
FlossieT-I was fortunate enough to find three Morrison books for sale at the library, for .30 each. Tar Baby. Sula, and song of Solomon. I was hoping for Love or Jazz...but no such luck. I'll keep an eye out for her new one. Thanks. Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier
Sula Toni Morrison
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark
Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
Jezebel Katherine Sutcliffe ... - Alice Walker
13. The world according to Garp - John Irving
14. The hour of the star - Clarice Lispector
15. Sula - Toni Morrison
16. One hunderd years of solitude - G. G. Marquez
17. The bell jar - Sylvia Plath
18.Breakfast at tiffany's - Truman Capote
19. A town like A ... ... home improvement... I have new windows now.
As for my list
An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
Sula by Toni Morrison
Another World by Pat Barker
Elizabeth Costello by J. M. Coetzee
I am in the middle of two others but they will have to appear on ... ... Fit Kids: A Family-Centered Approach to Achieving Optimal Health ... by Robert S Gotlin this one is an ARC
Sula by Toni Morrison
The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan
The Guardian by Nicholas Sparks
These were mooched! ... Jonathan Barnes
The Glamour by Christopher Priest
Thursday Next in First Among Sequels by Jasper Fforde
Sula by Toni Morrison ... authors.
But after reading The Price of the Ticket, I wanted to read James Baldwin's novels...
After reading Sula, I wanted to read all of Toni Morrison's...
After My House, all of Nikki Giovanni's...
Definitely after Farming of Bones, I wanted to read all of Ed ... Beauty and the Spy by Julie Anne Long
Jenna Starborn by Sharon Shinn
Sula by Toni Morrison ... to Expect When You're Expecting, 3rd ed. Heidi Murkoff, Arlene Eisenberg and Sandee Hathaway 706 copies
7. Sula, Toni Morrison 1,739 copies
8. A Child Called It, David Pelzer 1,315 copies
9. Empire Falls, Richard Russo 2,465 copies
10 . Fast Food Nation, E ... ... and it's about a guy who sticks a pin directly into the pupil of his eye. God, that was actually painful to read.
Sula by Toni Morrison, probably because I read it so young. Night by Elie Weisel gave me nightmares when I first read it, but that might have been because of the age ... ... Own, The Second Sex, Sexual Politics, Silent Spring, Slouching towards Bethlehem, Sonnets from the Portuguese, Sula, and Surfacing.
T's etc., not so many, only: Tell Me a Riddle, To Kill a Mockingbird.
Were most of these books written a while ago, or have I just not been ... ... A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
2. Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow
3. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
4. Sula by Toni Morrison
5. Wicked by Gregory Maguire
6. America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction by Jon Stewart
7. I Am America (And So Can Yo ... ... of Love, Anais Nin
The Story of My Life, Helen Keller
Storyteller, Leslie Marmon Silko
The Street, Ann Petry
Sula, Toni Morrison
Surfacing, Margaret Atwood. ... felt like I needed a follow-up that I could read critically rather than emotionally, so today I read Toni Morrison's Sula. It was worthwhile and really got me thinking about the nature of self, but I doubt I'll carry much of it with me.
Now that that's done, I think I'll launch into T ... I think I'll start Sula by Toni Morrisson tomorrow. I feel like something that I can become intellectually rather than emotionally involved in. While I always get something out of Morrisson's work, I find that she rarely resonates with me on a more instinctual level. Perfect. The book is ... Finished reading Sula it was a fast read. Sula was quite a character. Not too exciting but a good read. Finished Ellen Foster it was an easy read, nice happy ending. I'm now reading Sula. ... Hobb - KEEPER
165. The Golden Fool by Robin Hobb - KEEPER
166. Fool's Fate by Robin Hobb - keeper
167. Sula by Toni Morrison - seller
168. The Princess Bride by William Goldman - seller ... Hobb binge, with the occasional other novel slipped in:
Mad Ship
Ship of Destiny
Fool Moon by Jim Butcher
Sula by Toni Morrison
Fool's Errand
The Golden Fool
Fool's Fate
I left France in Shantytown Kid and am up in the Bottom of Medallion, Ohio in Toni Morrison's Sula. I'll be leaving there tonight and will arrive in a small New Mexican border town tomorrow in my early reviewer's copy of The Guardians by Ana Castillo. Can't wait! ... on books where the relationship of being a daughter is crucial to the plot:
Mill on the Floss
Pride and Prejudice
Sula
The Joy-Luck Club
Jane and Prudence ... Woolf; The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein; She Came to Stay by Simone de Beauvoir; Sula by Toni Morrison; Anne Tyler (anything). ... e
The Secret Garden
The Wind and the Willows
Treasure Island
Black Beauty
The Hobbit
Alice in Wonderland
Sula
Around the World in 80 days
Sing-Song
When We Were Very Young
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Julius Caesar
The Merchant of Venice
Hamlet
Othello
B ... ... read the rest of the series. Then I went to the library and got 3 more. A nice copy of Ulysses and a brand new copy of Sula for 10 cents. I was very excited, especially about the Ulysses since I have that one on my Amazon wish list(I already read it in e-book form, hopefully a real life ...
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