Enjoyed hearing your perspective. I agree re: James - it's brilliant on many levels. Beloved is not an easy read, but I appreciate her dedication and creative writing style to bring the story and Sethe's perspective to life.
I loved Miss Benson's Beetle! You're the first person I've heard talk about it! It was such a surprise fun read for me. I'm in the middle of James right now. I'm hoping to finish it this month.
Beloved is on my top favorite books and I've read it twice (planning to read it again). I think is absolutely brilliant, and a very important book about ptsd and trauma of the aftermath of slavery, but also of any other trauma also. I couldn't love her writing style more. I love this book all the way! I just finished James. I loved it, but I wanted more from it. Thinking about it, Beloved did for me what James didn't in terms of writing style. I think James was a great book that would have been greater if it was longer. Some significant relationships, including Huck's and Jim's I felt were undeveloped and left me wanting. I can say more about it because I don't want to spoil it. I gave it 3.75, but I still loved it. Beloved was a 10 stars for me, but I gave it 5 because that's the goodreads maximum.
Haha oh no, "I fell asleep and didn't care"! 😂 I DNFd Harold Fry too I think, I can't remember why, but I guess that says something in itself. I had a pretty great reading month in terms of quality, but I would say they were pretty safe choices. Very happy about it nonetheless ^^ I didn't get to a lot of historical fiction, unfortunately, but I read that every now and then anyway. I want to get to Beloved and James at some point as well. I liked The Wager on audiobook (slightly slowed down), but there are also pictures and maps and things in the printed book which might add to it. I haven't seen them, but just wanted to say in case you like that kind of thing :)
Enjoyed hearing your perspective. I agree re: James - it's brilliant on many levels. Beloved is not an easy read, but I appreciate her dedication and creative writing style to bring the story and Sethe's perspective to life.
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I loved Miss Benson's Beetle! You're the first person I've heard talk about it! It was such a surprise fun read for me.
I'm in the middle of James right now. I'm hoping to finish it this month.
@@BonnieNicoleWrites I keep thinking about Miss Benson's Beetle - a sign of a good book!
@@RaspberryReads Definitely!
Beloved is on my top favorite books and I've read it twice (planning to read it again). I think is absolutely brilliant, and a very important book about ptsd and trauma of the aftermath of slavery, but also of any other trauma also. I couldn't love her writing style more. I love this book all the way!
I just finished James. I loved it, but I wanted more from it. Thinking about it, Beloved did for me what James didn't in terms of writing style. I think James was a great book that would have been greater if it was longer. Some significant relationships, including Huck's and Jim's I felt were undeveloped and left me wanting. I can say more about it because I don't want to spoil it. I gave it 3.75, but I still loved it. Beloved was a 10 stars for me, but I gave it 5 because that's the goodreads maximum.
@@Read2live I agree that James could have been a bit longer!
Haha oh no, "I fell asleep and didn't care"! 😂 I DNFd Harold Fry too I think, I can't remember why, but I guess that says something in itself.
I had a pretty great reading month in terms of quality, but I would say they were pretty safe choices. Very happy about it nonetheless ^^ I didn't get to a lot of historical fiction, unfortunately, but I read that every now and then anyway. I want to get to Beloved and James at some point as well. I liked The Wager on audiobook (slightly slowed down), but there are also pictures and maps and things in the printed book which might add to it. I haven't seen them, but just wanted to say in case you like that kind of thing :)
@@ellenmadebookclub glad to hear you had a great reading month! Good to know about the maps and illustrations in The Wager.