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Get Out but with a New Orleans Setting

The Revisioners by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton

December 18, 2020 by The Chancellor Leave a Comment

The Revisioners by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton My rating: 3 of 5 stars I’m conflicted about this book. On the one hand it was an enjoyable read. Thought-provoking with some suspense. On the other hand, I don’t feel like the ending delivered on the suspense and I have more questions than I do answers. Weaving two stories, that of Josephine in 1855 and 1925 and Ava in 2017, readers are taken on the journey of a family in New Orleans and his things have changed and […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: margaret wilkerson sexton

The Chancellor's CBR12 Review No:29 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: margaret wilkerson sexton ·
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My favorite part of year

A Kind of Freedom; Sing, Unburied, Sing by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton; Jesmyn Ward

September 20, 2017 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

So screw the Pulitzer Prizes because they don’t release the nominees until the winner is announced, but August/September/October is my favorite part of the year because the Booker Prize and National Book Award release their longlists and we get a new Nobel Prize winner. So I haven’t liked the change toward American books on the Booker Prize because I like to expand what books I am watching, but so it goes. Of the ten books on the National Book Longlist, I have already reviewed two […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: a kind of freedom, Jesmyn Ward, margaret wilkerson sexton, Margaret Wilkerson Sexton; Jesmyn Ward, sing unburied sing

vel veeter's CBR9 Review No:378 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: a kind of freedom, Jesmyn Ward, margaret wilkerson sexton, Margaret Wilkerson Sexton; Jesmyn Ward, sing unburied sing ·
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