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Our Beloveds

Beloved by Toni Morrison

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Not too much to say about this one except every word just drips with rawness. The question is what would you do? Would you do as Sethe did? Would you have done something differently? I can’t imagine being owned by someone. I can’t imagine my body not being mine to command. I can’t imagine my children being someone else’s property. “Beloved” follows Sethe, a former slave that managed to escape to Ohio more than a decade ago. However, Sethe is haunted by the choices she […]

The True American Horror Story

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Stephen King is considered to be the master of modern American horror, but with all due respect, that’s not true. Haunted hotels, telekinetic prom queens and evil clowns (or just, you know clowns) got nothing on human depravity. Pet Semetary may have freaked me out, but it’s Toni Morrison’s story of the dead child coming back to life that’s going to keep me up at night. Sethe was born a slave but escaped to the free state of Ohio before the Civil War. Haunted for 18 years […]

The Haunting and the Haunted

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 Sethe, a former slave, is raising her last child left in the lonely, two story house at 124.  Well, they aren’t completely alone.  There is the spiteful spirit that bedevils the house, scaring away Sethe’s two sons and turning her mother-in-law infirm.  The arrival of Paul D, another former slave that worked on the same farm as Seth, brings a short period of relief from the haunting.  Until a few days later, when a young woman shows up on their porch, with no memory, who […]



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