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50 Book Challenge : kambrogi in 2009		202	bonniebooks, Today 11:01pm
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Literary Snobs : HAL 9000 asks "What are you reading, JAN 2010?"		25	bobmcconnaughey, Today 10:24pm
75 Books Challenge for 2010 : ajm490's 2010 reads		1	ajm490, Today 10:14pm
Awful Lit. : Books to be struck from HS reading lists!		280	ctpete, Today 8:55pm
The Green Dragon : What are you reading in January?		32	janepriceestrada, Today 6:07pm
1001 Books to read before you die : Favourite Book from the 1001 List that You Read in 2009		26	Medellia, Today 5:54pm
Club Read 2009 : Nickelini's 2009 Reading		222	Nickelini, Today 3:33pm
Historical Fiction : When Are You Now? (continued further still)		259	Samantha_kathy, Today 10:24am
Club Read 2010 : Your Top Ten Reads of 2009		49	bobmcconnaughey, Today 10:15am
1001 Books to read before you die : What are you reading from the 1001 list in DECEMBER?		91	george1295, Today 9:26am
1001 Books to read before you die : A very early New Year's resolution thread: which 1,001 novels are you determined to master in 2010?		29	bookishbunny, Today 8:12am
1010 Category Challenge : pamelad's 1010 challenge		41	VisibleGhost, Yesterday 5:32pm
1010 Category Challenge : kimb 1010 list for 2010		30	VisibleGhost, Yesterday 5:24pm
100 Books Challenge for 2009 : Judylou's 100 books in 2009		324	bonniebooks, Yesterday 12:50am
1001 Books to read before you die : Wisechild's 1001 List		5	wisechild, Saturday 11:12pm
1010 Category Challenge : dreamlikecheese's 1010 Challenge		80	pamelad, Saturday 5:32pm
Le Salon Litteraire du Peuple pour le Peuple : 2009 Reading Oscars		33	theaelizabet, Saturday 3:39pm
50 Book Challenge : whitewavedarling's 2009 challenge....		196	whitewavedarling, Saturday 7:24am
999 Challenge : merry10's 999 challenge		54	merry10, Friday 5:53pm
100 Books Challenge for 2009 : Lene's reading list for '09		23	lenereadsnok, Friday 1:21pm
Reading Globally : janeajones' memorable books from around the world		78	janeajones, Friday 11:59am
Club Read 2009 : janeajones' 2009 book junket 2		76	janeajones, Friday 11:54am
Club Read 2009 : Solla's reading and other thoughts		113	solla, Friday 5:01am
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : RebeccaAnn's Reading: Part Deux		210	alcottacre, Friday 4:42am
50 Book Challenge : lbradf joining the group to see if I can do it		96	notmyrealname, Thursday 9:44pm
Geeks who love the Classics : Which contemporary books will/should become classics?		35	KatherineAdelaide, Thursday 7:58pm
50 Book Challenge : Leuntje's challenge in 2009		94	Leuntje, Thursday 8:43am
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Cerievans1's 2009 books read		158	kidzdoc, Thursday 7:17am
1001 Books to read before you die : maryjanemanolos progress		125	kiwiflowa, Wednesday 9:09pm
1010 Category Challenge : Snash's 1010 challenge		13	clfisha, Tuesday 6:31am
1001 Books to read before you die : Nickelini's 1001 List		15	Nickelini, Monday 4:37pm
50 Book Challenge : Westcott's 50		48	westcott, Monday 9:12am
1001 Books to read before you die : Arubabookwoman's 1001 Quest-1-36		16	arubabookwoman, December 2009
1010 Category Challenge : katieinseattle's (new) category list		19	GingerbreadMan, December 2009
Group Reads - Literature : The Group Reads Coffeehouse		249	cakefriend, December 2009
Club Read 2009 : What Are You Reading Now?		65	rebeccanyc, December 2009
20-Something LibraryThingers : What's your favorite book in your library?		122	asukamaxwell, December 2009
Girlybooks : Favorite Heroine?		76	m4marya, December 2009
What Are You Reading Now? : Your BEST BOOKS of 2008		175	newlifecoming, December 2009
999 Challenge : Nickelini's 999		117	avatiakh, December 2009
Genealogy@LT : Introductions		88	missylc, December 2009
TBR Challenge : judylou joins in 2009		29	Nickelini, December 2009
African/African American Literature : Toni Morrison		13	allirhodes4, December 2009
250 book challenge : Dyrfinna's 2009 Reading		142	Dyrfinna, December 2009
50 Book Challenge : Mythgirl0415 Book Challenge		44	mythgirl0415, December 2009
1001 Books to read before you die : Judylou's 1001		41	judylou, December 2009
Book talk : High School English Literature reading suggestions		24	MissWoodhouse1816, December 2009
1001 Books to read before you die : pamdis 1001 reading list		6	pamdis, December 2009
Books off the Shelf Challenge : RebeccaAnn's 2010 Off The Shelf		3	RebeccaAnn, December 2009
Audiobooks : authors reading their own books		30	sjmccreary, December 2009
1001 Books to read before you die : Soffitta1's 1001 Books- Lifetime of Reading		20	soffitta1, December 2009
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : ajm490's 75 book challenge		28	ajm490, December 2009
Club Read 2009 : janepriceestrada’s 2009 Reading		51	janepriceestrada, December 2009
1001 Books to read before you die : Dave's 1001 List		17	Nickelini, December 2009
The Green Dragon : November 2009 Reads		49	MrsLee, December 2009
1001 Books to read before you die : What are you reading from the 1001 list in November 2009?		79	jlelliott, November 2009
50 Book Challenge : Smiler69's 50+2 books in 2009		152	Rebeki, November 2009
Le Salon Litteraire du Peuple pour le Peuple : 10 Famous Titles Least Likely to Stand the Test of Time		104	rolandperkins, November 2009
What Are You Reading Now? : What Are You Reading the Week of November 7, 2009?		200	Mr.Durick, November 2009
FantasyFans : Barely fantasy recommendations		48	Emidawg, November 2009
Virago Modern Classics : Things Every Woman (and Man) Should Know About HTML and other techie questions answered		99	juliette07, November 2009
1001 Books to read before you die : How many have you read?		265	ekebivibeke, November 2009
1010 Category Challenge : deep220 1010 challenge		23	soffitta1, November 2009
999 Challenge : Favourite Book in Each Category		10	hailelib, November 2009
Reading Globally : October Group Read - ghoulies and ghosties - recommendations		87	bfertig, November 2009
Le Salon Litteraire du Peuple pour le Peuple : Hit List		155	Macumbeira, November 2009
Author Chat : Erin Pringle, author of The Floating Order (Oct 17-31)		24	CampusCoed07, November 2009
Folio Society devotees : Nobel prize in literature 2009		59	Osbaldistone, October 2009
50 Book Challenge : nannybebette---the 4th inning		301	nannybebette, October 2009
1001 Books to read before you die : Sara's 1001, with Opinions		23	Sarasamsara, October 2009
Book talk : Books made into movies		107	Ape, October 2009
Books that made me think : Message Board		143	shanglee, October 2009
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : amaranthic is reading.		151	FlossieT, October 2009
Nobel Laureates in Literature : Which Nobel winners have you read? Which are favorites?		19	torontoc, October 2009
Club Read 2009 : Fullmoonblue		82	Fullmoonblue, October 2009
1010 Category Challenge : miss_chievous: 1010 Category challenge		15	RidgewayGirl, October 2009
What Are You Reading Now? : Book Brought Home - September 2009		215	jdthloue, October 2009
1001 Books to read before you die : What are you reading, September 2009		83	jdaniel3760, October 2009
Pulitzer Fiction Challenge : Kimb's Pulitzer Challenge		3	clamairy, September 2009
Girlybooks : What Books By Women Are you reading , September 2009 ?		125	teelgee, September 2009
999 Challenge : soffitta1's		72	ivyd, September 2009
Top 100 Novels of All time : Which books on the list have you already read, and are you reading one now?		40	ravingraven, September 2009
Book talk : Another Silly Game Part 29		364	kooiekerhondje, September 2009
100 Books Challenge for 2009 : teelgee tackles 125 in 2009		275	teelgee, September 2009
Book talk : Ok, this is a good one. What is the most disturbing book you have read?		389	Phlox72, September 2009
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : streamsong's 75 for 2009		76	maggie1944, September 2009
Literary Snobs : Personal message board		334	CliffBurns, September 2009
Book talk : Do you always finish every book you start? How do you decide it is not worth reading?		84	VetaTorres, September 2009
40-Something Library Thingers : What are you currently reading/recommending?		151	anna_in_pdx, September 2009
What Are You Reading Now? : The Modern Library's Top 100 Novels		87	MichaelMenche, September 2009
Girlybooks : What Books by Women are You Reading Now? August 2009		160	wookiebender, August 2009
Literary Snobs : a challenge		67	kswolff, August 2009
Slipstream : What does slipstream include?		9	jbond, August 2009
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Literary Snobs : People Who Believe Books are a Waste of Time and Money		300	holcombjmarie, August 2009
999 Challenge : englishrose60's		233	englishrose60, August 2009
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... Roberto Bolaño. Joined a book club, so we'll definitely be reading six books by June. Also: working through 2666 and Beloved currently.

... Fiction About mid-way: Storyteller by G.R. Grove The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. DuBois Recently finished: Beloved by Toni Morrison LSU Football Vault Just started: Into the Path of Gods by Kathleen Cunningham Reading Seattle: The City in Prose Longitude: The True S ...

Just started Beloved for my English class. We spent the entire class period reading it aloud and going over the symbolism. We got through a whole 2 pages. Oh, and this is my teacher's favorite book. Yikes.

... happy with that and hope to read as many or more this year. My favourites were: A Fine Balance The Stone Diaries Beloved How the Dead Live Half of a Yellow Sun But most of the 22 had something special about them.

... from My Father -- eloquently written and insightful Best reread -- lots of them this year, but 1st place goes to Beloved by Toni Morrison with honorable mention to The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera, Death in Venice by Thomas Mann and The Turn of the Screw by He ...

... book with a lot of readers, but it really worked for me. The first one of hers that has really caught my fancy since Beloved. I can't help but think that, given our common appreciation for the work of a certain Southern writer whom Morrison emulates in her best work, you will like it, ...

... to, Kathi. I need to push the Morrison up the pile. In fact, I have several of hers to be read, having been walloped by Beloved a few years ago.

... Diaries 11. Remembering Babylon 12. The English Patient 13. Sexing the Cherry 14. The Satanic Verses 15. Beloved 16. Perfume 17. The Handmaid’s Tale 18. The Unbearable Lightness of Being 19. Nights at the Circus 20. Flaubert’s Parrot 21. Midnight’s ...

English/American Literature 1) Mrs. Dalloway 2) Crossing to Safety 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) Candidates Beloved, O' Pioneers, Cold Comfort Farm, A Suitable Boy, The Lovely Bones, A Fine Balance

... 22 this year and there were a few gems amongst them . . A Fine Balance Sputnik Sweetheart The Stone Diaries Beloved How the Dead Live Brideshead Revisited Half of a Yellow Sun In the Forest It was a good readig year for me to wookie!

... Rhys Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes The Morning Watch by James Agee All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren Beloved by Toni Morrison Nonfiction: Zeitoun by Dave Eggers Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi River Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America by John M. Barry The ...

I think I have done more cooking than reading lately. However, I did finish Beloved (thoughts soon) and started A Confederacy of Dunces. I am bringing that, Longitude, and Reading Seattle - a collection of prose about and by Seattlites - with me on vacation.

... at Eboli after getting halfway through. Beautifully written but just not interesting enough to me. I'm about to start Beloved.

... essay in 10 tangos by Anne Carson The Sugar Mile by Glyn Maxwell Rereads: The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood Beloved by Toni Morrison The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

... Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury 3. 1984 by George Orwell 4. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut 5. Beloved by Toni Morrison 6. Cien años de soledad by Gabriel García Márquez 7. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller 8. Macbeth by Shakespeare ...

... Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury 3. 1984 by George Orwell 4. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut 5. Beloved by Toni Morrison 6. Cien años de soledad by Gabriel García Márquez 7. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller 8. Macbeth by Shakespeare ...

... + 20 - both your lists have some amazing books in that I totally adored when I read them - The Count of Monte Cristo and Beloved are (I think) both in my Top 20 books ever... the Count definitely is anyway - Beloved may have slipped a few places with all the new ones I've read lately! #19 - ...

... list which I haven't got to. The list is embarrassingly long. Maybe I was a bit too ambitious. Wuthering Heights Beloved Catch 22 The House of the Spirits Middlemarch I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings The Grapes of Wrath The House of Mirth The Golden Notebook Frank ...

For English LTers, can you just remind us how old that makes your daughter? I'm guessing 16-ish? If I'm right then she has some great books to choose from and I would especially recommend Things Fall Apart, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, The House of Spirits, Of Love and Shadows, Pride and Preju ...

... The Eyre Affair, Sopie's World, Lord of the Flies, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, On Chesil Beach, Life of Pi, Beloved, 1984, Frankenstein, Of Mice and Men and The Color Purple. Still quite a long list, I know, but I've just randomly picked out the ones that I loved, or ...

... Ewan Amsterdam, Ian McEwan The White Earth, Andrew McGahan Death in Venice, Thomas Mann Life of Pi, Yann Martel Beloved, Toni Morrison The Mystic Masseur, V S Naipaul Miguel Street, V S Naipaul In a Free State, V S Naipaul Guerrillas, V S Naipaul Sabriel, Garth Nix An ...

>128: Two of the other books I'm currently reading are Beloved by Toni Morrison and Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin. Beloved's required for a class (and it's miserably late - I was supposed to have it done about a month ago but I don't think I'll finish it before the class is ...

... by Paul Auster Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov The Mammoth Book of Modern Ghost Stories edited by Peter Haining Beloved by Toni Morrison The Inner Game of Music by Barry Green Books read: I'm only going to count books that I finish in 2010 so none yet :(

Hi Jane - I been lurking occasionally, but haven't posted in awhile. I'll skip the Glassblower, but I really should read Beloved sometime...and The Unbearable Lightness of Being...and...you know, I should just spend a semester in Sarasota.

Currently reading: Beloved by Toni Morrison – possibly not a good choice for a holiday read, but quite extraordinary so far The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. DuBois – This has come up in several of my recent readings so I figured I had better sneak it in Storyteller by G.R. Grove – L ...

Finished Thanksgiving by LT author Glenn Alan Cheney on the big day in between cooking and started Beloved by Toni Morrison.

54. Beloved - Toni Morrison This book is worth reading it!

Beloved - Morrison. I like it very much!

... couple of weeks before finishing it. I'm also reading Our ancestors by Calvino and going to start in Toni Morrisons Beloved. edit: corrected touchstone

28> Beloved??? I think I've read it at least 5 times. And imho it's absolutely unforgettable.

Hi! New to the group, but I read the title to this thread and immediately thought Beloved by Toni Morrison. Nobel or no Nobel, that book is painful and most people seem to want to forget it as soon as they've read it.

193. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison. This was my second Morrison, the first being Beloved. Song of Solomon is a lot less...well, disgusting. Which is nice. Artsy as it may be, bestiality doesn't really do much to enrich a story. Anyway, I liked Song of Solomon a lot more. Didn't love, but ...

... will end up on it. Absalom, Absalom All the King's Men To Kill a Mockingbird Sometimes a Great Notion Beloved An American Tragedy Moby Dick East of Eden The Sound and the Fury Intruder in the Dust The Reivers The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (which is ...

... on the list? I seconded it. Did someone delete Ralph Ellison? He's not British too is he, like Lowry? And what about Beloved? Has that also been nixed? What's going on around here?

I'm starting Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison. I read Beloved in high school and my feelings can only be described as pain and loathing...and I hate feeling that way about a Nobel winner, so hopefully this will redeem her for me.

I'd lose The Catcher in the Rye -- I don't think it really stands the test of time. Replaced with the incomparable Beloved by Toni Morrison. And I second Urania's replacements. I like both Hemingway and Fitzgerald, but I think they'll go down as secondary 20th c. writers. Saul Bellow ...

... Mr. Chips 5. British Writers Best: The Thirteenth Tale 6. Controversial Best: Petals of Blood Worst: Beloved 7. Travel Best: The Old Patagonian Express Worst: Wall to Wall 8. Canongate Best: The Penelopiad 9. Historical Best The City of Fallen Angels

... and it was a very trying experience because I had never encountered that before. And then in grad school while reading Beloved I ran across several cruel articles about the novel (cruelty for cruelty's sake ~ exactly as we've spoken about The Exorcist film), and that's when I talked to my ...

I've been reading and viewing and teaching Toni Morrison's Beloved -- America's ghost story of slavery that haunts us all.

... Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow by Peter Hoeg Beloved by Toni Morrison The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje Lark Rise To Candleford by Flora Thompson

>26 - Not just you who would quibble with Morrison. ;-) Based on what I read in Beloved, I don't have a great deal of respect for her writing... Oh, not at all.

... Author: possibilities The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing Death with Interruptions by Jose Saramago Beloved by Toni Morrison Kristin Lavransdatter: the Cross by Sigrid Undset

I've just finished reading Toni Morrison's Beloved for the fourth or fifth time, and I'm sure it won't be the last time. This is THE great American novel. No one has confronted the terrors of slavery and the toll that both slavery and prejudice have taken on individuals and on our country as ...

... The Satanic Verses 205 Oscar and Lucinda 208 Nervous Conditions 216 The Child in Time 220 World’s End 223 Beloved 230 An Artist of the Floating World 236 Love in the Time of Cholera 242 The Handmaid’s Tale 243 Perfume 247 Hawksmoor 252 The Lover 253 Empire ...

... but they are magical - especially The Bean Trees. Other than that there are: Mama Day by Gloria Naylor Beloved by Toni Morrison Troll: by Johanna Sinisalo Forever: a novel by Pete Hamill

... Run The Maltese Falcon Ulysses Lolita Crime and Punishment The Master and Margarita The Secret History Beloved Song of Solomon A couple weeks ago, I started reading Mrs. Dalloway and found it confusing with the abrupt character changes and put it down after about 1/4 ...

A few other suggestions: Beloved by Toni Morrison The Hundred Secret Senses and Saving Fish from Drowning by Amy Tan The Painted Drum by Louise Erdrich The Between and My Soul to Keep by Tananarive Due OK -- They're all American, but African-American, Asian-American and Native A ...

... already be able to tell. For now, I do recommend it if you're interested in horror, or if you're a fan of Toni Morrison's Beloved or Song of Solomon certainly. I still feel it's more of a suspense than a horror, but I do need to think on it some more. 93eee. The Pyramids of Malpighi by ...

... here, I've read To Kill a Mocking Bird now and it is just as good as everyone said it is. I now have in my library Beloved Gilead The Stone Diaries Looking forward to reading these three, but I have a few others on mount Toobie to get through before I can.

... by Marilynne Robinson Your favourite form of transportation: March by Geraldine Brooks Your best friend is: Beloved by Toni Morrison You and your friends are: Local Girls by Alice Hoffman What’s the weather like: Frost in May by Antonia White You fear: ...

... to alternate between day trips and then lazing around the pool reading which seemed to work very well! I will give Beloved a try, Flossie T. I read A Mercy a few months ago and I was not that taken with it. I am only 20 pages into The Little Stranger but really like it so far.

... get into the head of the characters to understand - I think it was my defect not the writers. If Flossie is so taken with Beloved, maybe I should give it a try? Cripes - 8 whole books on your honeymoon - my hubbie had every spare second of our honeymoon planned out. I hardly had time to ...

>114 Beloved is AMAZING. The first time I tried to read it, I struggled to get past the first 30 pages, but if you can stick with it, it's an incredible and beautifully told story. Really powerful, and definitely my favourite. The Bluest Eye also powerful but a bit harrowing - was the first ...

Beloved by Toni Morrison

... Day 116. Death in Venice 117. The Child in Time 118. To the Lighthouse 119. Tess of the d'Urbervilles 120. Beloved I notice that of the 20 books I've read this year, 13 are British. Yep, I definitely have a BritLit addiction! I hope to read 5 more books from the list this ...

71. Beloved, Toni Morrison American lit, 1987 Rating: 4/5 Comments: This is Morrison's masterpiece about slavery and a ghost, and also about the ghosts of slavery. Before I read it, I thought the novel was probably an interesting, well-crafted book that wasn't really my thing. After ...

58. Beloved, Toni Morrison Prize winners category; comments on my new thread: http://www.librarything.com/topic/72139

71. Beloved, Toni Morrison American lit, 1987 Rating: 4/5 Comments: This is Morrison's masterpiece about slavery and a ghost, and also about the ghosts of slavery. Before I read it, I thought the novel was probably an interesting, well-crafted book that wasn't really my ...

Started Beloved by Toni Morrison this morning, and off to read some more now . . .

... Birthday Reading Lolita in Tehran Between Two Worlds Bought from the library book sale: The Penal Colony Beloved Pleasures and Regrets The Book of Ruth The good news is my cousions are visiting them weekend, so they will be taking some of the books that I have read ...

I'm sometime in post-Civil War Cincinnati with Toni Morrison in Beloved.

I'm one chapter into Beloved by Toni Morrison. So far it's very different from anything I've ever read.

Loved both Beloved and Glass Castle! What an amazingly different childhood Wall had. Interesting how the same upbringing can bring out the best in some people, and the worst in others. Am also reading My Life in France. Julia is actually quite amusing!

... use as my book club choice next month. I'm enjoying it just as much as I did the first time around. #147 janeajones--Beloved is my all time favorite too. Unfortunately I can't use it for the book club that I've recently joined since they've been meeting for more than eight years and they ...

... which is terribly exciting, but not The English Patient which is strange. A memoir, instead that my teacher likes. Beloved and Hamlet too but I feel those are sort of lame books to read, lame in the sense of sterile, impotent. I wish my teachers would stretch themselves to more ...

I'm falling asleep to Julia Childs' My Life in France and embarking upon (for about the 6th time) Beloved by Toni Morrison -- perhaps my favorite all-time book -- for a course I'm teaching.

... books are bad, of course, but... Anyway, very relieved to see those on the list instead of The Samurai's Garden or Beloved. I would have wept a little inside.

... Charlene Harris 3. The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks 4. The Time Travelers Wife by Audrey Niffenegger 5. Beloved by Toni Morrison 6. PS I Love You by Cecelia Ahern 7. The Hours by Michael Cunningham 8. Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayers 9. The Oth ...

... ZZZZZZ_.jpg> 46-51. Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding, Silas Marner by George Eliot, Death in Venice by Thomas Mann, Beloved by Toni Morrison, The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera and Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi.

... Sigrid Undstet The Confessions of Felix Krull Thomas Mann Kim Rudyard Kipling The Bridge on the Drina Ivo Andric Beloved Toni Morrison Memoirs Pablo Neruda 2. Recommended on LT The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay Michael Chabon 4.5* To Say Nothing of the Dog ...

... 3. Poor fellow my country Miles Franklin winner 1975 4. The Stone Diaries Pultizer Prize winner fiction 1995 5. Beloved Pultizer Prize winner fiction 1988 6. Gilead Pultizer Prize winner fiction 2005 7. On Beauty Orange Broadband Prize 2006 8. 9. 10. 10 books ...

... romancer Flaubert's Parrot The Unbearable Lightness of Being The Cider House Rules Love in the Time of Cholera Beloved Watchmen The New York Trilogy Kitchen Dirk Gentley's Holistic Detective Agency Focault's Pendulum Like Water for Chocolate The Things They Carrie ...

256. Beloved - Toni Morrison (275) 257. The Urban Hermit - Sam MacDonald (304) 258. The Able McLaughlins - Margaret Wilson (268) 259. Disappearance Diary - Hideo Azuma (200)

Beloved and Middlesex both get very high marks from me.

Wow! You've read a lot of books since I last visited! I loved Homestead, Gilead, and Beloved. Enjoyed Five Quarters of the Orange, and think I liked A Thousand Acres too. I haven't read The Colour by Rose Tremain. How would you rate it compared to your other reads? Edited to try ...

68. Dot in the Universe by Lucy Ellman 69. The House Gun by Nadine Gordimer 70. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson 71. Beloved by Toni Morrison 72. A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley 73. Scarlet Feather by Maeve Binchy 74. Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen 75. Five Quarters of the Orange ...

48. Dot in the Universe by Lucy Ellman 49. The House Gun by Nadine Gordimer 50. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson 51.Beloved by Toni Morrison 52. A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley 53. Scarlet Feather by Maeve Binchy 54. Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen 55. Five Quarters of the Orange ...

The Call of the Wild Beloved Love in the Time of Cholera The Godfather A Farewell to Arms Kidnapped Saturday The Colour Purple Jane Eyre Frankenstein

... there any of these that you would highly recommend? I know that's a hard ask, as they are probably all very good. I have Beloved, Middlesex, The Age of Innocence and The Grapes of Wrath so far on my virtual wishlist.

... ever pick up another Morrison book; you'd have to force me, and I'd like to think you have better things to be doing... Beloved will be the only one unless others are required reading. Also, to add to the list of authors I dislike with a passion: Gail Tsukiyama. I dislike Amy Tan, as ...

I could barely force my way through Beloved. I'm just not a Toni Morrison fan. I did kind of like the setting and the feel of The Bluest Eye. It reminded me of my coal-mining roots in WVa.

>163 - I think Beloved is terrible, in addition to being terribly illogical. With all the 'symbolism' it feels like the author is trying to shove it down my throat, it is so forced. A lot of the events seemed to be there simply for shock value. I also dislike the writing style, but I would be ...

Back in fiction, Catch-22 and Beloved were both written in the last 50.

... A Mercy, Three Junes, Oryx and Crake and The Last Report on the Miracles of Little No Horse. Besides the fact that Beloved is my favorite book and A Mercy is very similar, I think it worked well for me because I had heard Morrison speak about it. She said it is a story of slavery ...

#8: It might just be me, but I was so glad that Morrison didn't use dialect in Beloved. I'd read Charles W. Chesnutt for that. I've never been able to make it through Twain's more popular works precisely because he's so heavy on the dialect. If it was a required literary device for every piece ...

Baby! by Ros Asquith Babylon by Jill Paton-Walsh Beloved by Toni Morrison Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks Blitzcat by Robert Westall

... of the book are depressing (hey, it's about slavery, it's not going to be a barrel of laughs), it's not the shock fest that Beloved was for me, and was on occasion even uplifting and joyous. Recommended, if historical literature is your bent. (The author has many pages of Further Reading and ...

... evening... it struck me as being something like Edna Pontellier (The Awakening) meets Uncle Tom's Cabin with a touch of Beloved. Dealt with the American South and one woman's unthinking complicity in the enslavement of another. Not the best novel I've read lately (enjoyed Amelie Nothomb's ...

Beloved

... i am rambling nonsensically already... a really beautiful book and one that people don't know enough about. as for beloved, i feel like i don't have to make a case for it; it's well-known enough already! morrison's unique quasi-colloquial style lends itself well to this story in the ...

17. season of migration to the north, tayeb salih 18. beloved, toni morrison

... encountered before, and some non-Euclidian geometry. Finally, A mercy by Toni Morrison. It reminded me a lot of Beloved, though set earlier at a time in American history when there were still indentured servants, and the differentiation between black and white was not so fixed as it ...

Beloved scarred me for life. We had to read it in high school- what high schooler is prepared for that material? None. I've been scared of Toni Morrison ever since.

Well, I couldn't hold out any longer and read Beloved from my alternate list. It certainly was worth it. A beautiful and very moving book.

129. Beloved by Toni Morrison A beautiful and very moving book.

46. Beloved by Toni Morrison I saw the movie some time ago and thought it was an interesting story. But the book is sooooo much better. An eerie story about Sethe and her children and her ...

... liked the photos that were included. It really gave the book a different feel. Thanks Whisper, hope you like it! 46. Beloved by Toni Morrison I saw the movie some time ago and thought it was an interesting story. But the book is sooooo much better. An eerie story about Sethe ...

10 Beloved by Toni Morrison

Currently reading Beloved. It is, so far, fascinating.

Maybe like all things - it is dependent on the timing of the reading???? I finished VIle Bodies and have just chosen Beloved from the tower.

... to them yet. If I don't finish this year, though, there's always next year. 1. Bel Ami by Guy de Maupassant 2. Beloved by Toni Morrison 3. Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov--Read 5/09 4. A Year in the Death of Ricardo Reiss by Jose Saramago 5. The Whisperers by Orland ...

... mention of "Rosetta Stone". I would love to learn a second language but where to begin. Also regarding Toni Morrison, Beloved is wonderful. It scared the crap out of me, but at the same time fascinated me. And, now back to you.

... on of most memorable reads. I really should read it again! That's the only Toni Morrison I've read. But I own Beloved and now I'm motivated to read it. I'm going to hunt it up and see if I can find time this summer to read it.

... finally *de-lurking* on your thread! I just wanted to chime in on the conversation re. Toni Morisson. I had to read Beloved in high school and I strongly disliked it (I know I'm in the minority here). My review is buried somewhere on Amazon's product page; I said something about it being ...

... and the Slave Girl, Miss Ravenel's Conversion From Secession to Loyalty, The Marrow of Tradition and maybe a reread of Beloved. I don't know how many of these I will read, but they all look interesting to me. I would also like to read another Dostoevsky in April.

... older daughter will be studying there in July and August and she is so excited!!! Also, I wanted to mention that I read Beloved last December, and it tied with If This is a Man for my top read of 2008. Definitely put it in your list of books to read. Have a wonderful day! --BJ

... confused or just plain not interested. It feels hard to explain. >10 Thanks, porchreader! Good to know you enjoyed Beloved. One of my favorite teachers at my University keeps telling us to read it, that it's amazing. So I'm curious to look it up. I've also read some glowing reviews of ...

thanks! have you guys read anything else by her? I keep hearing good things about Beloved and have read many times that the stuff from her later period (like Jazz) is nowhere near as good as her earliest stuff. If that's even a little bit true then I can't wait to read it. BrainFlakes I've ...

... by Neil Gaiman Thanksgiving by Glenn Alan Cheney Beloved by Toni Morrison I took an extended break from reading at the beginning of the year to study for a big exam so I don’t remember some of the early stuff I read. ...

I wonder if you have read Beloved, cerievans? I also could not engage with the prose or characters in A Mercy and wonder if it is a style mismatch with me or what. So I was disappointed with it, too. One of those books you feel you should perhaps try to like because you are supposed to and ...

... considering reading a book from the 1001 list so I can kill 2 birds with one stone. Using a tag search I've come up with Beloved, Uncle Tom's Cabin, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Has anyone read a book from the list that deals with slavery that you could recommend? Thanks! ...

... God, from a writer who really influenced great writers like Toni Morrison and Alice Walker. I have got a copy of Beloved and think I'll bump it up my TBR pile.

... Shop Girl by Steve Martin 72. Three Junes by Julia Glass 74. Body Double by Tess Gerritsen 75. Beloved by Toni Morrison 76. Before You Know Kindness by Chris Bohjalian 77. Adam the King by Jeffrey Lewis 78. The Woman Next Door by Barbara Del ...

... turn in on themselves, but lash out at anything suspected of being threatening. And then there are Song of Solomon and Beloved and Jazz -- the language in these is absolutely amazing imho.

... Chocolate – Laura Esquivel 16. A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving 17. Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood 18. Beloved – Toni Morrison 19. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood 20. The Color Purple – Alice Walker 21. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas ...

Interesting list! I have only read 1 -- Beloved -- and it was terrific! Several others are on my tbr, so maybe there is hope for me. :) Have a great day and thanks for the list. --BJ

Rachael, you've just saved Beloved from BookMooch! I'll give it another go. I really do want to like it and finally understand what everyone is always going on about!

>195: Nikki, I'd endorse giving it another try later! The first time I tried to read Beloved, I couldn't get past 50 pages. I came back to it 6 months later, and found that not only did those 50 flow more easily, I also could move beyond them, and I'd now count it amongst my favourite books - ...

... Can Change Your Life 18. The Bonfire of the Vanities 19. Infinite Jest 20. The Unbearable Lightness of Being 21. Beloved 22. The Handmaid's Tale 23. Freakonomics 24. Eats, Shoots and Leaves (Another I've read) 25. The Tipping Point (Yet another) What do you know--I've ...

I tried to read Beloved by Toni Morrison, because I've heard she's such a wonderful writer, but I just couldn't get past the first few pages. It just didn't interest me, which was a shame.

#26-50 (2-11-2009) 26) Beloved -- Toni Morrison 27) Watchmen -- Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons 28) An Artist of the Floating World -- Kazuo Ishiguro 29) The Handmaid's Tale -- Margaret Atwood 30) White Noise -- Don DeLillo 31) Neuromancer -- William Gibson 32) ...

... I will try. 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 ...

ck - I haven't read Beloved but recently read A Mercy - poetic, topical but confusing. I decided I was too dumb/concrete thinking to grasp it properly. Truthfully - it puts Beloved a little further down the TBR list, or rather shifts it to the MBR (Must BR) pile.

>214 (214???) I haven't read A Mercy, but am very interested in your reaction to it. I've only ever read Beloved by Morrison and must confess that I was slightly less impressed than the rest of the universe, which has roundly dissuaded me from reading anything else... I should probably get over ...

... was wonderful. Now working my way through Scar Night by Alan Campbell, which is okay so far. Then I have to start on Beloved for my book club's March reading.

#12 I agree. That is one of the best books I have ever read and my top pick for last year (tied with Beloved, another amazing book). I love looking through the 1001 book for lots of new titles that I have never heard of or just never really considered before. I learned that there is a lot of ...

I'm about to begin Beloved tonight.

I hope to have a copy of The Book of Negros by then. If not, I'll pull that old copy of Beloved off my shelf--it's on my list to read this year anyway.

... how a book will "hit" people so differently. I don't know if it had to do with "when" I was reading it but when I read Beloved I just couldn't put it down! Although it sounds like it "hit" everyone in your reading group the same.

... 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 started Jazz, Tar Baby, ...

... 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 started Jazz, Tar Baby, ...

... 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 started Jazz, Tar Baby, ...

#97I don't think I've read A Writer's Companion, I'll have to check that out. I read Beloved last year, and I didn't fall in love with it... not like I expected that I would. I reckon, perhaps I should pick the book up... and try it again. And, I must admit: The Outsiders was one of ...

... chuck (or put up on BookMooch). Recent rejects are Foucault's Pendulum, The Road, and Cloud Atlas. I've set aside Beloved because I think I might re-read it again, but the first few pages was just not that interesting. We'll see. I have a lot of books on my TBR list at any given time, ...

I almost always finish a book...but review carefully before I start one. I had a lot of trouble with Beloved, so don't feel bad, Quembel. I did plow through it, since my children and I decided to start a Nobel lit group (we call it the Nobel Three), and this was one of our picks. Almost ...

My two favorite reads of 2008 were Beloved by Toni Morrison and If This is a Man by Primo Levi. They were both on serious subjects (one fiction, one nonfiction), but absolutely worth the read. --BJ

Hi, Bartleby-face! I read Beloved last December and thought that it was an amazing book. Good luck with you reading challenge! --BJ

Read: Beloved In Progress: The Forever War, the Roald Dahl Omnibus To Read: Interpreter of Maladies, The man who fell in love with the moon

... s/P/0307264238.01._SX140_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg"> This author is well-known to most, and the Nobel Prize winning author of Beloved - a book I confess I have not yet read. Set in the 1680s, it tells intertwining stories of slaves and pioneers and purchased brides. It is poetic and lyrical, ...

These are probably odd choices, but I find both Jazz and Beloved by Toni Morrison wildly moving love stories about the inherently redeeming power of love. They are certainly not romantic, however.

billiejean, I shall be reading Beloved this year for my 999 Challenge, not sure exactly when. Audiobooks are great when you need to be doing something else, but I personally prefer to have the book in my hands. Forgot to say good luck with your exercises.

I'm nearly finished Micronations and am loving it. I'm about halfway through Beloved and am really struggling. It's for a bookclub, so I will finish it, but it's hard work.

... they must be good in some way. As a result of this goal (and I only occasionally read these books), I have recently read Beloved (also book nudged), The Old Man and the Sea, and The Great Gatsby. All of these books were terrific. On the other hand, this is just a personal goal. I ...

Hi, ER! You are doing a great job with your reading! I was just wondering if you ever got a chance to read Beloved? I remember you saying that it was coming up last December. I am thinking about trying books on cd to encourage me to exercise more on my elliptical. Have a great day! --B ...

... Do you do a year-end assessment of your favorite book of the year? Last year, I had two favorite books of the year, Beloved and If This is a Man. Right now I am reading The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It is pretty funny so far. Have a great day! --BJ

What a bunch of good-looking suggestions. Thanks, folks! Well, I've read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Beloved, and Our Man in Havana, all of which I enjoyed (though I don't remember much of Beloved anymore). The rest of these books look promising, and I'll keep an eye out for ...

theaelizabeth: I agree that A Mercy was easier to follow after reading 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 ...

... and other 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 ...

... am not sure if they are good, but they have all come highly recommended to me. My two favorite books from last year were Beloved and If This is a Man. I also read an interesting book last year called The Radioactive Boy Scout, a cautionary tale about an unsupervised teen on a quest to ...

I'm finding Beloved a bit hard to get into. One paragraph is lovely & really grabs me, then the next is confusing or frustrating. I have also started Micronations which is, only a few pages in, absolutely hilarious.

... Come Undone by Wally Lamb Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See Summer of my German Soldier by Bette Greene Beloved by Toni Morrison and one that would be on the list had I not recently lost it to water damage The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

... quickly, although I did feel a bit like a teenager again. It seemed like perfect reading for a long weekend. Next up is Beloved by Toni Morrison for a RL book club.

... Play Songs of Love Corelli's Mandolin Chocolat Blindness One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest The Color Purple Beloved Amistad

... a fun writer. I have nearly finished No Logo, but am finding it heavy going in parts. Then for the long weekend I have Beloved and am joining the bandwagon with Twilight.

... won’t be going anywhere; cause all I want to do is read. I'm nearly finished No Logo and Get Shorty and picked up Beloved for a RL bookclub from the library yesterday.

... by Margaret Atwood, 1986 253. Contact by carl Sagan, 1987 254. The Cider House Rules by John Irving, 2000 255. Beloved by Toni Morrison, 1990 256. The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe, 1990 257. *The Child in Time by Ian McEwan, 1989 258. The Black Dahlia by James ...

... and Julia by Julie Powell 9. The Wedding Officer by Anthony Capella IV. Classics 6/9 1. Beloved by Toni Morrison 2. Tess of the D'Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy 3. Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote 4. ...

... Purple by Alice Walker 1984: Ironweed by William Kennedy * 1986: Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry 1988: Beloved by Toni Morrison 1989: Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler 1992: A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley 1994: The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx 1999: The Hour ...

Done with the Iliad, I looked up Beloved and I'll see if I'm able to find it. Thanks for the tip:)

... on all of them. But I really like having a group to encourage me to stick with a longer book. :) Hi, Teresa! You know Beloved got on my TBR the same way that The Old Man and the Sea did. The teachers at our local high school really know how to pick the books! :) I am planning to read ...

... Robinson A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler The Colour Purple by Alice Walker Beloved by Toni Morrison http://www.librarything.com/topic/47293

Hola Rarm Loved Beloved. Good choice.

... Watching God. However, I am sorry that you think Morrison is angry/boring -- she may be my favorite author -- I think Beloved is an absolutely amazing book, and Jazz is both jazzy and bluesy, full of riffs and music.

... Empire Falls ii. The Interpreter of Maladies iii. The Hours iv. The Shipping News v. American Pastoral vi. Beloved vii. The Killer Angels viii. The Fixer ix. The Grapes of Wrath (ii, iii, and iv because I own them, and the others simply because they piqued my ...

... I heard Toni Morrison read from it in person just before it was released, and I am salivating. It was very reminiscent of Beloved, my all-time favorite book. Looking over your challenge thread, I see that you are also a fan.

Hi, judylou! I just read Beloved in December and it is a truly amazing book. I highly recommend it. Good luck with your challenge! --BJ

... by Chris Bohjalian 10. The Australian Fiance by Simone Lazaroo December 11. Beloved by Toni Morrison April 12. The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five by Doris Lessing

fiction: A tie between Beloved by Toni Morrison and Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro, with The Story of Forgetting by Stefan Merrill coming in second nonfiction: The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism by Megan Marshal biography: Charlotte Bronte: A Pass ...

My favorite fiction was Beloved by Toni Morrison. My favorite nonfiction was If This is a Man by Primo Levi. My favorite YA/children's Lit was a tie between Tarka the Otter and Tamar. Overall, it was a great year of reading. Here's hoping for another great year! --BJ

... in 2009 6. My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk 4.5 stars 8/1/2009 5. Compulsion by Jonathan Kellerman 4. Beloved by Toni Morrisson 3. Teaching Company: How to Listen to Great Music (48 CD's!!!) 2. Bin Ladens by Steve Coll 1. Out Stealing Horses by Per P ...

Best Fiction: Beloved by Toni Morrison Best Nonfiction: The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Ignited American Romanticism by Megan Marshall Best Reread: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Best Biography: Charlotte Bronte: A Passionate Life by Lyndall Gordon Best Classic: Pers ...

... (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. But A Mercy sounds ...

I've read Bluest Eye and Beloved but I should read more at some point. Her writing is beautiful. A Mercy may start out somewhat confusing but it sorts itself out.

re Toni Morrison I loved! Song of Solomon when I read it several years ago. I bought Beloved but never got around to reading it--I guess I'd better dig it out for 2009. Then I can explore some of her others.

... finished 1/23/2009 3.5 stars 2.Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys 4 stars 2 catagories finished 5/10/2009 3. Beloved by Toni Morrison audiobook 4 stars finished 5/27/2009 4.Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Not on the 1001 5. Othello by William S ...

I just read two totally different, totally wonderful books: Beloved by Toni Morrison (which won the Pulizer Prize) and 84, Charing Cross Road combined with The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street by Helene Hanff. The first is a book of suspense involving a ghost. It deals with the issue of ...

... of Bloomsbury Street by Helene Hanff. I read this book following a recommendation from Book Nudgers just like I read Beloved. Wow, another fantastic book. I could not put it down. It was funny, thoughtful, uplifting. I will return to this book in the future, I know. And an upbeat way ...

... of Bloomsbury Street as well. This was a delightful book that I know I will reread again and again. Both this book and Beloved were top books for the year for me. Thanks so much for the nudges. I will be ready for a new nudge sometime in January. Happy Reading and Happy New Year! --BJ

... / YA ~Tarka the Otter by Henry Williamson III. Poetry ~Paradise Lost by John Milton IV. Suspense / Mystery ~Beloved by Toni Morrison V. Spy (Fiction or Nonfiction) ~Tamar by Mal Peet ~Honorable Mention to Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene VI. Science / SFF ~The Radi ...

... Triffids. II. Children's Lit / Y. A. ~Tarka the Otter III. Poetry ~Paradise Lost IV. Suspense / Mystery ~Beloved V. Spy (Fiction or Nonfiction) ~Tamar ~Honorable Mention Our Man in Havana VI. Science / SFF ~The Radioactive Boy Scout VII. Religious ~Father Jo ...

... from amazon. It had: The Coffee Trader for a group read; A Mercy the new Toni Morrison novel, because I just loved Beloved; and The Collegeville Bible Commentary: Old Testament for my attempt to read the entire Bible. This last book, however, is quite long. I hope that I make it ...

... Morrison - The Bluest Eye. I was far too young (like, 12) and the book upset me so much that I've just recently acquired Beloved, and finally think I can actually read it.

... how you're finding a mercy by Toni Morrison. I really struggled with it and I am wondering if it is because I haven't read Beloved. I was told that they are similar. Any words of wisdom?

"more about the journey than the total" -- love it! Although your total is quite impressive as well... congrats! Beloved/Morrison is one of my all-time favorites, I wanted to name a child after her but was over-ruled; let us know how A Mercy is, I'm hoping it's waiting for me under ...

My top 5 fiction books for 2008 are: Beloved by Toni Morrison -- The hands down winner! A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham Tarka the Otter by Henry Williamson --BJ

... Tarka the Otter by Henry Williamson Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham Beloved by Toni Morrison Lots of other great books read, too. :) --BJ

I am reading 84, Charing Cross Road and Tamar over the holidays. Just finished Beloved which was amazing. --BJ

... as a Young Man, another book taking place in Ireland. I finished my suspense/mystery category with the ghost story Beloved. Wow, what an amazing book! One of the tops of the year! I added one to my Spy -- Fiction or Nonfiction category. The book was The Riddle of the Sands, a ...

My favorite books of 2008 were Beloved, A Dance to the Music of Time, Kristin Lavransdatter (the new list), If This is a Man, and Tarka the Otter. I can't pick one. If just two, then Beloved and If This is a Man. This list helped me to find so many terrific books! I can't wait ...

... Finished June 23 vii The Grapes of Wrath Finished July 13 viii. The Optimist's Daughter Finished July 28 ix. Beloved Finished August 24

... familiar with the history. This book was short and had a very interesting writing style. I am glad that I read it. 69. Beloved by Toni Morrison. This book was amazing! I could not put it down. This was definitely one of my top reads of the year. I ordered A Mercy from amazon.com because I ...

I finished Beloved and am still reading The Riddle of the Sands. --BJ

Billiejean, I shall be reading Beloved in 2009. Looking forward to it after your comments.

Beloved sounds great. I will definately give it a try. Jenny

I will definitely have to make getting A Mercy a priority. I loved both Beloved and Song of Solomon. Morrison is an amazing writer. sounds like I'll have to move Enger's newest up the list too. I've got a copy floating around the house.

I also just finished Beloved. Wow, what an amazing book! I am now returning to The Riddle of the Sands which I put down because I could not stop reading Beloved. I am also about to start 84, Charing Cross Road. Does anyone know, is this a nonfiction book? --BJ

Hi, theaelizabet! I also just read Beloved, and I felt the same way. A truly amazing book! --BJ

I just finished Beloved and am starting Life and Death of Harriett Frean.

I just finished Beloved and am starting Life and Death of Harriett Frean.

... Beloved by Toni Morrison Amazing. Brilliant. What more can I write that hasn't been written before? (1988 Pulitzer Prize and American Book Award winner)

I finished Beloved today and what an amazing book! This book is a favorite of the Senior English teachers at my daughter's high school. Now I see why. This is my twelfth and final book for my 2008 TBR Challenge! Yea! :) This has been a great challenge for me, because I have cleared the decks ...

Of my books nudged for December, I read Beloved which was a totally amazing book. I am so glad that I read it. Thanks for the nudge. Also for the December nudge, I will read 84, Charing Cross Road next. --BJ

Today I finished Beloved. Wow. What an amazing book! I had bought it soon after it was first published, but having baby girls I could not bring myself to read it. I was ready to read it this time and boy am I glad I did. You were so right! :) Next on tap is 84, Charing Cross Road. --BJ

... Margaret Atwood (05/01/09) 3. The Secret History, Donna Tartt 4. To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf 5. Beloved, Toni Morrison 6. Oranges are not the only Fruit , Jeanette Winterson 7. 8. 9.

... nclair 4. A Fable by William Faulkner 5. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee 6. The Reivers by William Faulkner 7. Beloved by Toni Morrison 8. Rabbit at Rest by John Updike 9. The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos

I finished A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, which I liked. Now I am reading The Riddle of the Sands and Beloved. I am thinking about maybe something for the holiday, too. Not sure what yet. --BJ

... Fifth Head of Cerberus by Gene Wolfe 10. The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell 11. Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar 12. Beloved by Toni Morrison

In addition to reading Beloved, I've just begun The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism by Megan Marshall. It's wonderful.

... insists it's because I've attempted the wrong ones. Moody reading is definitely an issue. The first time I tried to read Beloved I had to put it down after about 30 pages (admittedly I was 16 at the time...). Now I'd definitely consider it one of my favourite books, and one of my personal "can ...

... Artist as a Young Man, continuing my reading about Ireland. I have started A Riddle in the Sands and am about to start Beloved. --BJ

Beloved by Toni Morrison.

I have started A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. I am also about to start Beloved and The Riddle of the Sands. --BJ

>166, I think Beloved is still my favourite, but I also really liked Jazz, and indeed Paradise - which got terrible reviews, but which I found really moving, and thought made a really excellent and interesting point about race and colour in literature. (Even if it did nearly scupper my ...

Thanks, MusicMom! I'll check out Song of Solomon. I definitely recommend Beloved. I read it several years ago, and it is one of those books that really stayed with me.

... but the only Toni Morrison I've read so far is Song of Solomon and it is one of my favorite books of all time. I have Beloved and I'm now tempted to move it up the TBR pile.

... The Oral History of a Band Called Pixies, no nudges Ivanhoe, 2 nudges The Three Musketeers, 5 positive nudges Beloved, 8 positive nudges Beowulf, 5 positive nudges Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, 6 positive nudges Dracula, 3 positive nudges Siddhartha, 3 positive ...

... slowly just to savor the beautiful phrases. But it was only the 2nd of Morrison's books that I've read. (I've also read Beloved.) I'd like to read another. Which one of hers is your favorite?

... character in only a few paragraphs. This book is relatively short - only 167 pages - so the story is not as deeply told as Beloved, yet I still came away with a richer understanding of the struggles of life in this time period.

... 2008. Doesn't seem very active, but sounds like we could make it more so from this discussion! >27 I also thought Beloved was a masterpiece. I think it's a love it or hate it book. I've read it three times; the last time was five years ago in college. >30 There are tons of ...

"In a way of speaking". Beloved by Toni Morrison "And whose ally you?"

I'm reading Beloved by Toni Morrison. So far (1/3 through), it's wonderful.

... poetry by my friends. dylanwolf, re: the ongoing discussion about such popular choices as Remains of the Day and Beloved, I think we're encountering the age-old problem of the canon. These books are certainly part of the twentieth-century canon, along with such figures as master ...

Toni Morrison's Beloved. Can't believe it's taken me this long to get to it.

... (10 from my original list and 1 from my alternate list). I don't yet know what I will read next, either Alias Grace, Beloved, or Dracula. All three of these books are from my alternate list. Two of them, Beloved and Dracula, are listed in my Book Nudgers pile, so if one of those "w ...

Thanks everyone. Thanks kambrogi for the Beloved recommendation. I love Toni Morrison but saw the movie of that one so didn't read it. I think I've now forgotten enough of the film to take up the novel. I'm currently reading whatever I please: four books in fact. Carpentaria by Alexis ...

... the "obvious" nudge for a slightly more obscure choice but sometimes plumping for that classic, for example Toni Morrison's Beloved, where not to have read it simply won't do.

... the story is told and retold, each time adding more understanding, more detail, what Toni Morrison calls "rememory" in Beloved. If by any chance you missed that one, or God of Small Things, I would recommend them, as they are both told in that cyclical way. Morrison's new book, A Mercy ...

I'll nudge Beloved if you want to cry and 84, Charing Cross Road if you want a witty giggle. If you want an absurdist giggle, then I nudge The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy If you want adventure, then The Three Musketeers. If you need an epic sort of nudge, then read Beowulf, but ...

... Charing Cross Road. Admittedly, it's been a while since I read it, but I was underwhelmed. I myself am planning to read Beloved in 2009, because so many people have urged me to do so - "insisted" is probably the better word. There are a lot of raves for this book, which is both popular and ...

... choice is Three Musketeers though it is much much longer than Charing Cross. If you feel like a challenging book, Beloved is spectacular and she has a new book just out, called A Mercy which is getting rave reviews, and you may have to read immmediately following. Heaney's Beowul ...

How about a 2/3 nudge for Beloved and a 1/3 nudge for 84 Charing Cross Road. Can I split it up like that?

I'm nudging Beloved also. While I remember enjoying Siddhartha, I read it in the very early 70s when, as Kevin points out, everyone was reading it.

A wholehearted shove for Beloved. Completely absorbing account of the impact of slavery on one family, and in particular what it meant for women. (I liked other books on your list but I don't want to dilute the impact of my shove!!)

I'll nudge Beloved. This is a Morrison book which I haven't read because I saw the film BUT everything Toni Morrison writes is wonderful.

Without a doubt what you should read is Beloved by Toni Morrison. But beware it is a demanding as well as rewarding read. Siddhartha takes me back to the hippie days of my youth when Hermann Hesse was essential reading. He probably isn't now! Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is funny ...

... 7. Sarum 8. Fool the World: The Oral History of a Band Called Pixies 9. Ivanhoe 10. The Three Musketeers 11. Beloved 12. Beowulf 13. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 14. Dracula 15. Siddhartha Well, that is my list. Sorry for lack of photo. However, I tend toward ...

... 2007) The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy (Booker, 1997) Ismail Kadare (International Booker, 2005) Beloved – Toni Morrison (1988 Pulitzer, Fiction) W;t – Margaret Edson (1999 Pulitzer, Drama) The Road – Cormac McCarthy (2007 Pulitzer, Fiction) Th ...

... (Northern Ireland) The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy (India) The Road – Cormac McCarthy (US) Beloved – Toni Morrison (US) The End of the Alphabet – C.S. Richardson (Canada) Carpathians – Janet Frame (New Zealand) Dec 22 addendum: I'm ...

... David Sedaris (June 9) Lambda Award, humor, 2004 7. Remains of the Day, (July 6) Booker Prize, 1989 8. Beloved, Toni Morrison (September 6) 1988 Pulitzer Prize 9. The Diviners, Margaret Laurence (October 18) Governor General's Award All prizes are fair ...

... and if so which titles are keepers. Here are mine: 1. Underworld 2. Beloved 3. The Sun Also Rises 4. Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide 5. Ginsberg ...

... Ours What is on My TBR shelf: 1921 - The Age of Innocence 1983 - The Color Purple 1986 - Lonesome Dove 1988 - Beloved 1994 - The Shipping News 1996 - Independence Day 1999 - The Hours 2002 - Empire Falls 2003 - Middlesex 2004 - The Known World 2008 - The Brief Wo ...

... (2008 Pulitzer) Independence Day by Richard Ford (1996 Pulitzer) The Known World by Edward P. Jones (2004 Pulitzer) Beloved by Toni Morrison (1988 Pulitzer) The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulz (1994 Pulitzer) **Fantasy, Horror, or Supernatural** Women of the Night by Various F ...

that's a good one, SD1, one of the few books I have re-re-read in my life, about once a decade probably. Beloved is another, and the Adams Hitchhiker's Guide...

... habits about backing up data. My mothers family are some or those "sausage-eating Germans" Toni Morrison mentioned in Beloved. Dad's family is more interesting, the Crawford's go all the way back to 1764 and, according to the evidence, never get out of Kentucky. The problem is that in 1764 ...

... story. The others are The Old Man and the Sea (did not enjoy that in high school), Angle of Repose, Lonesome Dove, Beloved (I can't remember if this was an audio book), The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, A Thousand Acres (audio book), and The Shipping News.

... Robinson June 2009 6. A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley June 2009 7. Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler 06/07/2009 8. Beloved by Toni Morrison June 2009 9. The Colour Purple by Alice Walker 10/07/2009

... Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos (Farrar) 1989 Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (Alfred A. Knopf) 1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison (Alfred A. Knopf) 1987 A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor (Alfred A. Knopf) 1986 Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (Simon and Schu ...

Just Go To Bed by Mercer Mayer Altar of the Dead by Henry James My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk Beloved by Toni Morrison South by Java Head by Alistair MacLean

... Roses: The Vampire In 19th Century Literature by Adele Olivia Gladwell The Haunting of L by Howard Norman The Beloved by M.D. Gray The Swimming-Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst Still She Haunts Me by Katie Roiphe

... by John Edgar Widemann Ohio: Toni Morrison, especially The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon and most especially, Beloved Kentucky: Brother to Dragons by Robert Penn Warren and The Kentucky Cycle by Robert Schenkkan Illinois: Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters ...

... or The Great Gatsby which is from the second list. I am planning a theme read for October and will defer Inferno, Beloved, Frankenstein, Dracula, and Faust until then. Well, the touchstones quit loading at the end. I may have to come back later and try again! I hope that ...

... ettes The Bonfire of the Vanities The New York Trilogy World’s End Enigma of Arrival The Taebek Mountains Beloved Anagrams Matigari Marya Watchmen The Old Devils Lost Language of Cranes An Artist of the Floating World Extinction Foe The Drowned and ...

Yes to Beloved. How about The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hasek?

Yes to Crime and Punishment. No to Gabriel's Gift. What about the fairly obvious but so far unlisted Beloved?

I am about to read Beloved....it's in my newest stack so I should get to it sometime in the next 3 - 4 weeks. My first experience with the story was the movie.......and I decided never to read Morrison. Then, I saw her intereviewed and reading Paradise which sounded so interesting. So, I ...

... in reading Oil!. 71. Star Trek The Forgotten War-William Forstchen. Haha. This book was a fun read. 72. Beloved--Toni Morrison Not quite sure how I really feel about this book. From the aspect of a simple ghost story it is very interesting...definitely unusual. 73. ...

#62 You wrote: Toni Morrison's Beloved. I just had to stop, it crushed me to know there were lives out there like that, even knowing it was fiction. Are you not aware that Morrison based the book on a true incident in history? #37 I would agree that Blood Meridian is the most ...

... had a bit of a traumatic month so I have done very little reading. Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Beloved by Toni Morrison No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy I wish that I could have gotten more in but that will have to do for this month. I was not ...

... Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer 227. Basara Vol. 1 by Yumi Tamura 228. Basara Vol. 3 by Yumi Tamura 229. The Beloved by Posie Graeme-Evans 230. Kamen Tantei Vol. 1 by Matsuri Akino 231. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman 232. Women of the Bible: Rahab's Story ...

... : 1. The Great Gatsby (Read) 2. Alias Grace 3. Oliver Twist 4. The Old Man and the Sea 5. Invisible Man 6. Beloved (Read) 7. Frankenstein 8. Dracula 9. Get Shorty 10. Dangerous Liasons 11. The Count of Monte Cristo 12. Brideshead Revisited I am trying to ...

I didn't like the ghostie angle of Beloved. But it's been so long, all I can recall is that I didn't enjoy it. I can't really remember why, other than the ghost part.

... esex 2. The Shipping News 3. A Confederacy of Dunces 4. Grapes of Wrath 5. Age of Innocence 6. The Hours 7. Beloved 8. American Pastoral

... Anton Chekhov. 6. The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey. 7. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield. 8. Beloved by Toni Morrison. Well, I am halfway throught this category. This first book was a door prize, but I liked it as it had a legal theme to it, like A Civil Ac ...

... new classics: 1. The Road, Cormac McCarthy (2006) 2. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling (2000) 3. Beloved, Toni Morrison (1987) 4. The Liars' Club, Mary Karr (1995) 5. American Pastoral, Philip Roth (1997) 6. Mystic River, Dennis Lehane (2001) 7. Maus, Art Sp ...

... at least I'm improving my facility with the language? I really liked Beloved, definitely recommend it. Happy reading! Beloved and Song of Solomon, and now Jazz, are actually the only Toni Morrison I've read. Did you prefer Paradise to Jazz?

... and places as well as I would have liked. The Horse Whisperer by Nicolas Evans - liked the ending in the book better Beloved by Toni Morrison

... when it arrived, took it to her room to devour, and I'll probably never see it again. She's supposed to be reading Beloved for school instead, but that's sitting on the dining room table, abandoned. (edited because sometimes I can't type)

... your mother enjoys the book as much as you did. As to Toni Morrison.....I have not yet read either Song of Solomon or Beloved. I have read Paradise which I also enjoyed a great deal. She surprises me. I started both books skeptically and then was won over very quickly by them both. I ...

Library Sale Rack: Beloved-Toni Morrison Mossflower-Brain Jacques The Green Berets-Robin Moore Mr. And Mrs. Cugat-Isabel Scott Rorick The Ultimate Dracula-Collected Works The Wolf's Hour-Robert R. McCammon The Sisterhood-Florence Stenvenson ...

I do think that! I heard Toni Morrison give a reading from Beloved at Oberlin College shortly after that book was released. TPBM will share a close encounter with a favorite author.

... (19) 3. Cryptonomicon (72) 4. The Ground Beneath Her Feet (76) 5. The Bonfire of the Vanities (218) 6. Beloved (223) 7. The Handmaid's Tale (242) 8. The Color Purple (272) 9. The World According to Garp (303) 10. Fear of Flying (341) 11. Slaugterhouse-Five ( ...

The answer key to my posts: #9: The Soul Thief (this one is linked above) #18: A Brief History of Time (ditto) #74: Beloved (by Toni Morrison) #80: The Russian Debutante's Handbook (by Gary Shteyngart) #138: The Metamorphosis (by Franz Kafka) #141: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Ga ...

... worked when I spelled Tale.. Tail. LOL 55.Hamlet 63.MacBeth 67.Sense and Sensibility 71.Bel Canto 74.Beloved 78.A Clockwork Orange 79.American Gods 80.The Russian Debutante's Handbook 83.Persuasion 88.Pinnochio 96.Jungle Book 104.The Princess and the Pea ...

... by E. Annie Proulx 1992: A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley 1989: Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler 1988: Beloved by Toni Morrison 1985: Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie 1983: The Color Purple by Alice Walker 1973: The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty ...

#3 It wasn't the best written article. The first sentence in the second to last paragraph, about Beloved didn't appear to actually be a sentence by common grammatical standards.

1. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (because I should get around to reading him) 2. Beloved by Toni Morrison (ditto) 3. The Magus by John Fowles (because I read my first Fowles and fell in love two months ago) 4. The Unfortunates by B.S. Johnson (because I'm feeling adventurous) 5. Finge ...

... and got 15 for myself... and one for BookMooch. For myself: Sophocles I Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon and Beloved Dickens' Hard Times and Great Expectations The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux Billy Budd by Herman Melville Tell No One by Harlan Coben... I ...

... Mayor’s Tongue by Nathaniel Rich (2008, 310 pp.) 31. The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway (2008, 231 pp.) 32. Beloved by Toni Morrison (1987, 275 pp.) 33. Maus I by Art Spiegelman (1986, 161 pp.) 34. Maus II by Art Spiegelman (1991, 127 pp.) 35. Keeper and Kid by Edwa ...

... in Louise Erdrich's books -- though she's not an admirable character, she is fascinating, Denver in Toni Morrison's Beloved

Beloved,Never Let Me Go. The Bluest Eye Troubles The Black Prince.

>101 polutropos, i had a similar experience with toni morrison reading beloved. check out the "authors reading their own works" thread. funny you should write about it because i was thinking about starting a "books that i've abandoned" thread. they do seem easier to abandon in audiobook ...

I am going to jump in here with a 'B'. Beloved was a great read. I was confused for part of the book. I couldn't tell which characters were real or part of the madness (the movie, I'm told, did nothing to clear this up). It seems it was the author's intent to make us become part of the story ...

... e. East of Eden The Beautiful and the Damned by Fitzgerald Lolita Ada, or Ardor by Vladimir Nabokov Beloved A Room of One's Own Anna Karenina Romeo & Juliet Gone with the Wind Othello Mating by Norman Rush The Count of Monte Cristo The Unbearable ...

... up his Chomsky ( yikes, he makes me feel totally duhhh) with something I'd actually read and enjoyed, so I bought him Beloved because I think it's one of those books that everyone should read at least once. Next to Morrison was Solnit, and the Solnit cover was so gorgeous, and I as my ...

... -- A. S. Byatt 24) The Remains of the Day -- Kazuo Ishiguro 25) The New York Trilogy -- Paul Auster 26) Beloved -- Toni Morrison 27) Watchmen -- Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons 28) An Artist of the Floating World -- Kazuo Ishiguro 29) The Handmaid's Tale -- ...

I've promised myself that this year I'll read Toni Morrison (Beloved) and Vladimir Nabokov (Lolita and/or Invitation to a Beheading). I read a lot of contemporary literature and modern classics, but I haven't done these two.

mejix, I listened to the Toni Morrison audiobook of Beloved as well. She committed the other cardinal sin of audiobook reading and mumbled her way through it as well. I listen mainly in the car, and for most of the time I could hardly hear her! Stephen King has a slightly whiny voice, ...

... i haven't found an author i like reading his own work... yet. three recent experiences: toni morrison reading beloved was very confusing because she didn't distinguish one voice from the other. maybe that was the nature of the book itself. still it didn't quite make a pleasurable ...

Lhea, I'm glad someone else feels that way about Beloved. I really didn't care for it but MY LORD, don't say it out loud. haha. I've only ever read The Bluest Eye when it comes to Morrison, which I enjoyed (if enjoy is the right word for something so upsetting). I will make a note to try So ...

I feel that it is blasphemous to dislike Beloved so... I think Song of Solomon is the greatest thing ever created in life.... but Beloved is a different story. literally. I'll probably give it another go... sometime this year. On another note, I think I should re-read One Hundred Year ...

... A Mockingbird by Harper Lee A Fable by William Faulkner House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday Beloved by Toni Morrison •Non-Fiction The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter In Cold ...

... sexy. Will try to remember. It was good. Found it!! TO BURN by Claudia Dain There is also in Ancient Rome: BELOVED by Beatrice Small SO SPEAKS THE HEART by Joyce Carlow THE LION AND THE LARK by Doreen Owen Malek

Naked - Sedaris Goat - Land Beloved - Morrison Texasville - McMurtry Boomsday - Buckley Shopgirl - Martin

... Women and Rape, Susan Brownmiller (nonfiction, US) Beirut Fragments: A War Memoir, Jena Said Makdisi (memoir, Lebanon) Beloved, Toni Morrison (novel, US) The Bone People, Keri Hulme (novel, New Zealand) Burmese Looking Glass: A Human Rights Adventure and a Jungle Revolution, Edith T. M ...

Good luck! Morrison's other really wonderful work is Song of Solomon, which I feel stands up to the standard of Beloved. And I love Bleak House too I suppose I'll add...

5.) Beloved, Toni Morrison ****1/2 There are books which inspire me to write, there are books which I wish I had written, and then there are books I can hardly imagine came from the pen of another human being living in this world. Beloved is one of the last sort. I've always heard good ...

... medieval Scandinavia -- from a reader of Swedish descent. For the US -- anything by Toni Morrison, but especially, Beloved, Jazz, and Paradise -- a trilogy of the African-American experience that is unsurpassed.

Have just totted it up on the spreadsheet; 238 so far. But I'm pretty sure I didn't finish all of them Beloved, for example, or Man Without Qualities, yet I've still included them. I have to admit a little infidelity with my lists; ever since I read Harold Bloom's Western Canon I've ...

... er -The Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath -The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (read 10/08) -Beloved by Toni Morrison

... is--Kosinski freaked me out in a frightened disgusted way. Disturbing in a challenging way is a whole different topic. Beloved brought home the total helplessness of slavery in a way no other book had because of the incredibly personal viewpoint (particularly in the scene in the barn). by ...

1. Beloved by Toni Morrison I wanted to fall in love with the story. In fact, I planned on falling in love with it. And I very well might re-read the novel to figure out exactly when, where and how my faith in the narrator failed and why it was never recovered. Beloved is definitely not ...

I too had to read Beloved in college and I loved my English classes, but why subject anyone to that book???? Yes, it may have been well written, but I was disgusted and bored with that book. Someone mentioned The Lottery and I was kinda shocked. I loved that story although yes, it was a bit ...

... about this site and community. Since others obviously can't keep it down to just one (or two or three) I'll also add Beloved, Their Eyes Were Watching God and The Kite Runner.

I am standing with the 'love it' group of Beloved readers. I am such a big Toni Morrison fan tho...the only book I would avoid as a new Morrison reader would be Jazz, I think. I have always wondered why Song of Solomon never transitioned to the silver screen. It is one of my ...

... -- it's the most harrowing yet oddly tender look at adolescent girls. Anything by Toni Morrison, but especially Beloved Delta Wedding by Eudora Welty caught me completely by surprise a couple of summers ago -- it so captures a family in slow-moving world that has disappeared. ...

I have read the following so far: 1. Possessing the Secret of Joy Alice Walker 2.Beloved Toni Morrison 3.Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez 4.The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams 5.Interview With a Vampire Anne Rice 6.Slaughterhouse ...

... usten The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Beloved by Toni Morrison Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Little Women by Louisa Ma ...

... th What Are You Like? by Anne Enright Darcy's Story by Janet Aylmer The Exiled by Posie Graeme-Evans The Beloved by Posie Graeme-Evans Pomegranate Soup by Marsha Mehran A Cook's Tour by Anthony Bourdain A Star Called Henry by Roddy Doyle

... if she read actual slave narratives like To Be a Slave, she's realize that it happened quite a bit. The story of Beloved is based on a true one, too. Denying the brutality of the past does nothing to make the present any better.

... Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Animal Farm A Clockwork Orange A Farewell to Arms The Scarlet Letter Beloved Herzog Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Charlotte's Web in my TBR pile are the following: Catch 22 The Sound and the Fury The Awakening A ...

... God by Zora Neale Hurston, and am actually enjoying it a lot more than I thought I would. I am somewhat recently off Beloved by Toni Morrison, so I thought it was going to be something else like that.

Beloved is disturbing, but also one so powerful I could not stop reading it -- it is one of the few books I could feel inside my entire body as my eyes read the words. does that make any sense? I remember reading Lord of the Flies at a young enough age to be totally naive and arguing in ...

I got three in the mail last night: Beloved by Toni Morrison The Skystone by Jack Whyte Wicked:the Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire

... 16 The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck, John, 15 1984 by Orwell, George, 15 Brave New World by Huxley, Aldous, 14 Beloved by Morrison, Toni, 13 Gone with the Wind by Mitchell, Margaret, 13 Lolita by Nabokov, Vladimir, 13 Animal Farm by Orwell, George, 13 The Catcher in the Ry ...

I'm not all that sure about reading the tougher books when you are younger. I read Beloved in my first year of college and hated the book. I was 18 at the time. Also, any of Steinbeck I hated as well and that was while I was in high school. On the flipside tho, reading Shakespeare back ...

... it has a kind of happy ending. I am also reading The known world, which is a slavery novel and so far I like it more than Beloved. I didn't read very many this month but the quality has gone up.

Zorba the Greek by Kazantzakis Peter Pan by Barrie Beloved by Morrison Stuart Little by White The English Patient by Ondaatje

... by doubt, conflict and alienation. Such books, while challenging, can also be very popular: Toni Morrison’s Beloved, which has sold a great many copies and was made into a movie, is as much influenced by modernism as it is by slave narratives. In recent years, Oprah’s Book Club, ...

... Middlesex are three favorites that I read in the past year. I didn't much care for The Good Earth, The Hours, or Beloved.

... moisture during a few powerful moments: Updike's Rabbit, Run with the drunk wife and the baby in the bath; Morrison's Beloved -- she gives you pieces of what happened throughout, but when the entire event is told it's still gut-wrentching; and (curse on my boys for not warning me) Bridge ...

... do you folks consider to be slipstream? i'm trying to get my arms around it and was looking at a list that included: * Beloved and Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison * Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy * Vampire Lestat and Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice T ...

... Butler would be a great book for seniors. I've seen it described as a modern slave narrative like Toni Morrison's Beloved, but it is by a respected SF author and involves time travel. It could be a great hook for kids who aren't too excited about reading SF in the first place. (Forgiv ...

"Bolt upright in the chair, in the middle of Sethe's welcome, Beloved had fallen asleep again." Beloved by Toni Morrison.

I did a little better than Rebecca and read Backlash, The Bean Trees, The Bell Jar, Beloved, The Bluest Eye, Bone, Bonjour Tristesse, and Brown Girl, Brownstones. If the word used in the title were 'important' or 'influential', I would be more in agreement with the choices. i ...

Well, I do better for the B's! I've read Backlash, The Bell Jar, Beloved, The Bluest Eye, and Bonjour Tristesse, none of them recently though.

... Against American Women by Susan Faludi The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver The Bell Jarby Sylvia Plath Beloved by Toni Morrison Betsey Brown by Ntozake Shange Beyond God the Father: Towards a Philosophy of Women's Liberation by Mary Daly Blood, Bread, and ...

Yay! I'm with littlebookworm. I'm celebrating by reading Emily Dickinson, Moby Dick, and Beloved and getting ready to do an in-class presentation on Emily's use of juxtaposition on Tuesday. I'm not reading all of them all at once, but I need to get started. College is just so exciting, ...

I absolutely loved Beloved. I've read it several times, and seem to get something new from it each time. I agree with the recommendations from citygirl if you want Morrison's more straightforward writing (all of which I love by the way), but if you want to go for something a little different ( ...

Takeoff, Rebecca! I thought you were my beloved, but alas, you are my nemesis, and frankly, I'm fed up with it.

Titles that would be considered a personal compliment. People You'd Trust Your Life to by Bronwen Wallace Beloved by Toni Morrison Luminous by Frank and Gillian Truth and Beauty by Ann Patchett Divine by Joanna Traynor

... I liked Jazz, Song of Solomon, and The Bluest Eye, I wasn't at all fond of Paradise and had to drag myself through Beloved. Someone out there, tell me why I should give Beloved another go! Da Vinci Code? Blech. Sure the ideas are interesting, but the writing style and ...

... this? It makes sense, but I was interested in what a bunch of ghost story fans and purists might think. If she is, does Beloved count as a ghost story?

avaland - two examples come immediately to mind: Beloved by Toni Morrison and Mama Day by Gloria Naylor - both African American writers that powerfully tell their stories using magical realism.

I read Beloved in college, but anytime I hear someone read it in high school I get a little surprised because from what I remember, it was really graphic in terms of rape and violence. Not that I think an AP English student would have trouble with it, but I'm surprised the parents in the ...

... tags . . . Colour - number of times the tag is used - most tagged book Red - 1597 - A Perfect Red Black - 1472 - Beloved Green - 896 - Worldchanging Blue - 829 - Edgefield County, South Carolina : Deed Books 19, 20, 21 & 22 White - 709 - The Once and Future King Brown - 640 - ...

... Roy come to mind. Also, Marquez should definitely be taught. Most people I knew in school hated Toni Morrison's Beloved, and Marquez is a much better example of magic realism.

"124 was spiteful." Beloved, by Toni Morrison Quite possibly my favorite book of all time!

#66 - Beloved!

... it a long time ago; but did love it. It is very quirky and creepy and cryptic at times -- but well worth the effort. Beloved is a prototypical novel for Toni Morrison IMHO -- she tends to write in a fragmentary almost poetic way with different points of view and passages that really ...

... the main character as I am sure the people around him often did. It was OK, but not as good as it was hyped to be. 28. Beloved This is one of those books, at least for me, that the mind drifts back to. I haven't quite decided what I think about it. I couldn't really determine if she was ...

... I do feel eager to read another book by the same author to compare. I would like to know what other pwople thought about Beloved.

... them away or donate them to the library. Also, I loan them, but never get them back! I've bought at least three copies of Beloved, for example. But I currently have only one copy in my home. :o/ Oh, there's a bookswap group in here somewhere, GD. You can trade the ones you don't want for ...

... so excellent, I think my favorite book for this year. I have reviewed it if anyone is interested. I am almost done with Beloved so in some ways it was a productive week, plus my divorce is now final Yeehaw!

... aren't a bunch of reviews already. And lastly a book called The outside world by Tova Mirvis. I am nearly through Beloved but it was a library book so I didn't take it with me. I have my official list at work, since I am there most of the time, but I think this should put me past 50% ...

... never liked him. So I am just loosely working my way backwards, and I am reading other things inbetween. I am working on Beloved because I happened to find it in our library and recognized it as being on the list.

I am nearly done with Beloved and I certainly hope it gets clearer, however I have a feeling this is one of those books that the ending is going to bother me. Please no spoilers, give me til tomorrow to finish.

... I decided that Absalom, Absalom! was the overall best, but my personal favorite book for several decades, until I read Beloved, was The Sound and the Fury. That sort of multi-layered, cyclical storytelling was a revelation for me at the time, and it is something that I especially like. ...

... As an adult: 20s: Roots 30s: Women's Room, The Chalice and the Blade 40s (a busy decade - went back to school): Beloved, Ishmael, Artist's Way, House of the Spirits, People's History of the United States, Refuge, Women Who Run with the Wolves, Circle of Stones 50s:A Pa ...

I just finished Beloved today. Very haunting, & since I'm wanting to read something a little bit lighter, I'm re-reading What to Keep, which I read years ago, but has since sat on my bookshelf since.

I'm still plodding through Song of Solomon, (which, in my opinion, is nowhere near as worthwhile as Beloved; it kind of reminds me of Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence, only with American slum landlords instead of Welsh coal miners), but I've also started Werehunter by Mercedes Lackey ...

... notes on The Wasteland were terrible! I couldn't use a highlighter on a book: it looks awful. I got a secondhand copy of Beloved and the WHOLE text in the first three chapters has been highlighted in yellow: how on earth would that help you study? What, exactly, were they 'annotating'?! Now I ...

... a lot of feed back of these lists and most of it is negative. The recent NYT Book Review survey listing Morrison's Beloved sent our little literary corner in a spiral of derision for weeks. I wonder, when a new list, pick, or award is announced, do you generally agree with it?

... list of great German (and/or French, etc.) books would be fantastic. The omission of, just to name two books I've admired, Beloved and Their Eyes Were Watching God, was unconscionable. I myself don't endorse the list and I don't rate or rank. That said, I consider these novels a "centathlon" ...

... many that I didn't like just because they were assigned but ended up being favorites like Brave New World Hamlet Beloved but then I read others that are classics that I hated then, gave a second chance and then still didn't like. The Scarlett Letter comes to mind in that category.

It should be a book that details a uniquely American experience. (That's obvious, I guess.) Beloved and My Antonia would be excellent candidates, as well.

... on the authors race, sex or sexual orientation that person is racist/sexist. Guess I'm a racist/sexist then. I read Beloved even though I'm not interested in the Civil War/Slavery because it was written by a black woman and I was interested in her take on it. If it had been written by a ...

... by the name of Valentine Michael Smith." ~ Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein "124 was spiteful." ~ Beloved by Toni Morrison Some others that don't fit into SciFi/Fantasy: "She hurries from the house, wearing a coat too heavy for the weather." ~ The Hours by Michae ...

... by Joseph Heller The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy Beloved by Toni Morrison

... her. Or they come back looking violated. :oP Still, I loan them. I just bought what I believe to be my third copy of Beloved last Autumn. It's such an incredible story, I hate to be without a copy to foist upon folks. Plus, I hope my daughter will eventually read it.

I did finish Beloved after all. After the first few chapters, it got much better though it will only get a 6 out of 10 for me and that only because of the handling of the subject matter.

... liked filler. I know the next book is better. #31 Sorcery and Cecelia by Patricia Wrede and Caroline Stevermer #32 Beloved by Toni Morrison #33 On the Day You Were Born by Debra Frasier

... My least favorites include The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos, flimsy plot that went nowhere and Beloved by Toni Morrison I found difficult to follow. Overall, though, I'm thoroughly enjoying this endeavor.

I hope you stay with Beloved, Morphidae. Morrison's style is rather cryptic; alot of forshadowing. So you feel like you don't understand or you missed something -- but then the pieces fall into place eventually. You just have to go with the flow. I am over half way thru with A Student of Livin ...

# 91 morphidae - I read Beloved just a week or so ago, and while I found it very slow-going I really felt that it was worth the time in the end. It's got a lot to say about a very difficult and heartbreaking subject. I've just started The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ...

I'm almost 50 pages into Beloved by Toni Morrison and unless it gets better soon, I'll not finish it. I don't care for the style of writing at all. I keep having to reread paragraphs because they aren't making sense.

... The Mercy Room by Gilles Rozier (F) 147 pages 09. Ptolemy's Gate by Jonathan Stroud (F) 501 pages 10. Beloved by Toni Morrison (F) 324 pages 11. The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde (F) 383 pages

... Inspector Jack Spratt and his Nursery Crime Division. It was a wonderful light read which was much needed as I finished Beloved by Toni Morrison the day before and that was a tad on the intense side. Today I am reading Notes From a Small Island by Bill Bryson which someone gave ...

... as such, too). January: (1) The Children's Blizzard - David Laskin (2) Outlander - Diana Gabaldon (3) Beloved - Toni Morrison (Pulitzer 1988) (4) The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily - Dino Buzzati (5) The Judges - Elie Wiesel (6) Morality for Beautiful ...

37. Pulp Art by Robert Lesser - keeper 38. Beloved by Toni Morrison - seller 39. PostSecret, compiled by Frank Warren - library 40. Dragons of Spring Dawning by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman - library 41. Nancy Drew's Guide to Life by Jennifer Worick - keeper ...

Oh, xicanti. I was blown away by Beloved. What an awesome writer she is! :o)

I've been working my way through Beloved by Toni Morrison. So far I'm really enjoying it. I'm also reading Pulp Art by Robert Lesser, and it's given me a lot to think about.

... for whatever reason, the list for my book club this year contains 3 or 4 Pulitzer winners. So far,this year, I have read Beloved, The Good Earth and Angela's Ashes and I have to say "so far, so good". What do you think of my resolution? If you were me, how would you pick the ones to ...

... Hinduism: A Very Short Introduction by Kim Knott The Hours by Michael Cunningham March by Geraldine Brooks Beloved by Toni Morrison The Druids by Stuart Piggott Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes Alaska by James Michener Coming into the County by John McPhee

... topic, a few months ago didn't the NY Times ask 250 writers the best American novels of the last 25 years - the winner was Beloved, the four runners-up were Underworld, Blood Meridian, Rabbit Angstrom, and American Pastoral.

... the discussion was a little boring (we usually have great discussions). For February we are reading Toni Morrison's Beloved. I am almost done with it and can't really forumlate an opinion. I had so much trouble understanding the beginning that I almost put it down, but then it got ...

... for Owen Meany JT Hospital's Oyster Drabble's The Witch of Exmoor Marilyn Robinson's Housekeeping Morrison's Beloved and Song of Solomon Gaiman's American Gods Auster's Leviathan and Moon Palace Eugenides' The Virgin Suicides And then there are The Great Gatsby, ...

I finished reading Beloved by Toni Morrison and found it incredibly touching. It was a very different book than I thought it would be, but this is probably my absence of the book world coming through. I knew it was a story of slavery, but I was impressed with how the book used inner ...

#79, keren7, I'll be very interested to hear how you're liking Morrison's Beloved. It's one of my all time favorites (along with her Song of Solomon). The grimness of the plot events make it emotionally difficult to read sometimes, but the structure and the language are nearly perfect. fyref ...

... McAlmon 3) From Harlem to Paris by Michel Fabre 4) Beloved Prophet by Mary Haskell and Kahlil Gibran 5) Beloved by Toni Morrison 6) Parallel Worlds by Michio Kaku 7) Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance by Sandra L. West and her former Savannah Sidekick ...

... see why the South African Government was upset at this book - hope I have't written too much I am now starting to read Beloved by Toni Morrison and we shall see how this book goes.

... of Ohio. Toni Morrison set several of her books in her native Ohio, including The Bluest Eye, set in Lorain, OH. Beloved is set in Cincinnati.

... Souls Nikolai Gogol The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway The Odyssey Homer The Golden Notebook Doris Lessing Beloved Toni Morrison The Tale of Genji Murasaki Shikibu Hamlet William Shakespeare (movie) & many others The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy Laurence Sterne ( ...

Of the first list, I've read: The Children’s Blizzard, Beloved, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and To Kill a Mockingbird. I love that you have a diverse group of books- nonfiction and classics. My book group tries to read from different genres and time periods, and I appreciate that. ...

... it. I only heard of A Lantern in Her Hand because it's an oldie, but the rest are great big ?'s to me. I've read Beloved, The Turn of the Screw, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, To Kill a Mockingbird, and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. You've got a nice ...

... be reading. They just put out the list for 2007. January - The Children’s Blizzard - David Laskin Februrary - Beloved - Toni Morrison March - The Master - Colm Toibin April - The Turn of the Screw & Other Short Fiction - Henry James May - The Adventures of Huckl ...

Finally getting 'round to Beloved by Toni Morrison.. Definitely starting well.. I was reminded of one of the most startling things I've ever seen - the beautiful, regal Ms Morrison being interviewed by an Australian 'journalist' who asked her when she was going to 'start writing about white ...

Currently reading Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison after really enjoying Beloved. So far it's great. It's easier to read than Beloved, and 'feels' quite different. It still has a certain disturbing quality that appears to be a bit of a Morrison trademark.

... by V S Naipaul, The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta by Mario Vargas Llosa, M R James' Collected Ghost Stories, Beloved by Toni Morrison and something detective-y by Susan Hill for my mother. Mostly replacing things I've 'lost', but not a bad haul for £14.

... picked up some great books there. Love in the Time of Cholera Living to Tell the Tale To the Lighthouse Jazz Beloved A Prayer for Owen Meany Paperbacks are .50 cents, and hardcovers are $1.00. I usually swing by once a month to see what's new.

... It's sad to see that many of the issues she wrote about in 1975 are still major issues now. Next to that I'm reading Beloved by Toni Morrison. So far, a great but cruel book.