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The Bluest Eye

This book is Toni Morrison’s first novel. In it, the Nobel Prize winner tells the story of a girl called Pecola who is convinced that her blackness makes her ugly and worthless. Pecola lives a grim and loveless life, she comes to believe that it is her blackness that has made her life so terrible,…

Teaser Tuesdays: The Bluest Eye

I fell in love with Toni Morrison’s book The Bluest Eye when I saw how much this child’s reaction when gifted with a blue-eyed doll so closely resembled mine when I was first given one. I couldn’t help laughing out loud, not something I expect to do when I am reading her books, which are…

Reading Toni Morrison

Reading is essentially a solitary activity, and I enjoy it that way. However there are some books / authors (I think) that really work when you read along with someone else, and Toni Morrison is one such author. I have read and loved Sula, Song of Solomon, and Beloved however I did come out of…