Showing posts with label Ntozake Shange. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ntozake Shange. Show all posts

Saturday, April 21, 2018

Top 3 Books When You Are Looking for Love




Finding love seems to be a growing theme in people’s lives. The options to find love range from speed dating events to dating apps. I vehemently believe that these three books can provide you some insight into your quest for love. 



Anna Karenina was chosen because of the themes of love, faith, infidelity, and marriage. A true classic, Anna Karenina, embodies the reality of relationships and love. Even though the novel is somewhat a tragic love story because of the unlikely transgressions of Anna Karenina and Count Vronsky, many life lessons can be learned and applied. 



An American Marriage challenges the beliefs surrounding the institution of marriage and relationships Roy and Celestial’s marriage is tested when Roy is falsely accused and convicted of rape. Since Roy and Celestial are newly wedded when the event happens, the reality if how hard marriage can be when challenges occur is illustrated in this novel. The novel makes you question your ideology of marriage and love. 


Me Before You proves that love can quietly creep up on you in the most unlikely and uncomfortable situations. In Me Before You, Louisa Clark’s life becomes transformed when she takes a job as a caregiver for Will, who uses a wheelchair to move around. The ending surely surprised me, but the journey was well worth it. This book is the first in a series of three. I've read them all and enjoyed each one. 



Saturday, August 13, 2016

Book Review: for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf

Book Title: for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf 
Author: Ntozake Shange
Format: Audiobook
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

I checked this audiobook from my local public library.  I have been procrastinating on reading it because of the scene with the children being dangled out of the window.  I watched the movie first, and that image still resonates with me.  

However, since I have a two-hour commute one way, I felt that now would be a good time to be entranced by Shange, and I must say that I was.  I cannot believe how talented she is.  She entraps you inside almost every emotion and feeling that women encountered, as they journey through life.  Shange chooses the language within the text to articulate power, beauty, anger, happiness, and so much more.

I hate to admit that the stories of the seven women are very familiar.  Why? I have either experienced the incident or know of a woman or women, who have experienced it.  

Within this text, Shange captures what it means to be a woman and what it means to be a woman of color.  Regardless of race, all women can relate to this text.  Incidences of infidelity or abuse are well known to women.  Shange's ability to capture the reality is amazing.  


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