Tag: toni morrison

  • 2019 My Year In Books

    Every year I read 52 books. Some years that’s easy, some years it’s hard. This year, it was hard. Child rearing, work commitments and the siren song of the youtube video all conspired to keep me from my reading goal, but I prevailed. There’s a decent argument that my goal of 52 books a year…

  • Review: Morrison’s The Bluest Eye

    The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison I am embarrassed to admit that until this year, the only Toni Morrison book I have read was Beloved. I’m determined to change that. And being me, I started at the beginning with Bluest Eye. Good lord it is stunning. A clear eyed, visceral, look into a black community in…