When your spouse works for a church denomination, there’s a good chance that his boss’s boss ends up in your book club. And that’s what happened with L. She had our February pick, and I decided not to waste any time when she announced that we’d be reading The Underground Railroad in February. I only had to wait a few days for my hold to come in, and here we are! The Chancellor is finishing it right now, so you’ll have to see his review, […]
“Slavery is a sin when whites were put to the yoke, but not the African. All men are created equal, unless we decide you are not a man.”
I don’t know if I will recover from The Underground Railroad anytime soon; its brutal subject matter compounded by current events. I listened to the audiobook because it became available at my local library before the hard copy. There was as lot of beautiful language and descriptors which came alive with the narration but it was also hard to literally listen to all the racial slurs and recounts of abuse. “On one end there was who you were before you went underground, and on the other […]
Is there light at the end of the tunnel?
Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad is sitting atop the NYT bestsellers chart and is an Oprah pick. It is an amazing novel about race, injustice and the American way. The story of a slave named Cora’s quest for freedom from slavery is also the story of America’s racism throughout history. Whitehead imagines a mid-nineteenth century America where the Underground Railroad was an actual physical railroad existing beneath the earth. As Cora’s first station master says, If you want to see what this nation is all […]
John Henry Days by Colson Whitehead
This book caught my eye due to its title: John Henry Days. My sons’ names are John and Henry. So I picked it up at Half Price Books, skimmed the excellent reviews on the back and tossed it into my cart. Shouldn’t have. While there were a few interesting parts, overall it was a difficult book to read, one that I completed in about twice the amount of time that it should have taken, simply because I didn’t feel like picking it up. The writing […]
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