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Beloved: End of Book
Finally, our ghost story has some bad ghost behavior. The negative vibes that have hung over the book - uh, the negative vibes that aren’t strictly…
Jul 22, 2023
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Beloved: Part II, Chapters Two to Six
Had you told me beforehand about the conceit of Part II, Chapters Two, Three, Four, and Five - that Sethe, Denver, and Beloved would take turns…
Jul 13, 2023
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Beloved: Part II, Chapters Two to Six
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Beloved, Last Chapter of Part I, First Chapter of Part II
Last time I said that I was sorry that I had not more intelligently chopped up the reading, leaving us to read the last chapter of Part I and the first…
Jul 9, 2023
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June 2023
Beloved, Chapters Twelve Through Seventeen
Soooooooo…. I’m constantly going back and forth about how I feel towards Beloved, at this point. The craft is always there on a sentence-by-sentence…
Jun 28, 2023
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Beloved: Chapters Eight, Nine, Ten, Eleven
Beloved knows how to dance, but she doesn’t know how she knows. She’s been in a dark place, but came here by crossing a bridge; in the dark place there…
Jun 24, 2023
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Beloved: Chapters Eight, Nine, Ten, Eleven
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Beloved Book Club Delayed to This Weekend
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Jun 21, 2023
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Beloved: Chapters Four, Five, Six, & Seven
45 comments on the first post! Let’s keep it up. Though Chapter “4” is something of an optimistic interlude, it still leaves you with a feeling of…
Jun 13, 2023
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Book Club, Beloved: Chapters One, Two, Three
So. Facts first, and briefly, because I know people hate too much summary. In Cincinnati, in the 1870s, a former slave named Sethe lives with her…
Jun 6, 2023
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May 2023
Book Club, Beloved: Introduction
Toni Morrison died in 2019. When she did, she received as much acclaim as our culture ever affords novelists, these days. Speaking as someone who’s read…
May 30, 2023
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January 2023
Book Club: Jesus' Son, "Beverly Home"
At last, something like release. It’s the last story in the collection (and thus the end of this book club), and our goodbye to our narrator. True to…
Jan 18, 2023
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Book Club, Jesus' Son: Steady Hands at Seattle General
We’ll be very brief today because the story is itself, the shortest in a collection with several quite-short stories. (As I mentioned last week, I…
Jan 11, 2023
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December 2022
Book Club: Jesus' Son, "The Other Man"
I’ve talked about stories in Jesus’ Son and whether they work as standalones or whether they need the structure of the book to work. “Dirty Wedding” was…
Dec 21, 2022
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