It may be a heretical opinion, but my eyes glazed over when Baldwin waxes religious. He has pages and pages of metaphors about "trembling" and "the Saints" that are beautifully written and subtle, but eventually start to seem like extraneous religious fluff. I couldn't help but skim past some of these sections to see when the book would finally get to the point. Despite this, the book has deep character portraits, and integrates the interaction between American racism and the lives of the people portrayed expertly and subtly.
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statori started reading The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down …
statori rated Ultra-Processed People: 5 stars
Ultra-Processed People by Chris van Tulleken
An eye-opening investigation into the science, economics, history and production of ultra-processed food.
It's not you, it's the food.
We …
statori rated The hearts of men: 5 stars
statori rated Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the sower: 4 stars
Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the sower by Damian Duffy, John Jennings, Octavia E. Butler
In 2025, with the world descending into madness and anarchy, one woman begins a fateful journey toward a better future. …
statori rated Be Free or Die: 5 stars
statori rated The Devil You Know: 5 stars
statori rated Learning How to Heal a Broken Heart: 4 stars
statori reviewed Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, …
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statori rated How fascism works: 4 stars
How fascism works by Jason Stanley
As the child of refugees of World War II Europe and a renowned philosopher and scholar of propaganda, Jason Stanley …
statori rated A History of Western Philosophy: 4 stars
statori rated Why We're Polarized: 4 stars
statori rated Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald: 3 stars
F. Scott Fitzgerald: Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (2021, Independently Published)
Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate – a marvelous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life …
statori rated The lion, the witch and the wardrobe: 3 stars
The lion, the witch and the wardrobe by Robin Lawrie
Four English schoolchildren find their way through the back of a wardrobe into the magic land of Narnia and assist …
