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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Beloved Book Club Delayed to This Weekend
I have a good excuse
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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…
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