Episode · The Book Review · 2019-08-09
Books mentioned on Toni Morrison's Legacy
Gilbert Cruz discussed The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom. Wesley Morris discussed The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, Beloved by Toni Morrison, Tar Baby by Toni Morrison, Paradise by Toni Morrison, and Sula by Toni Morrison. Parul Sehgal discussed Jazz by Toni Morrison. Dwight Garner discussed Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison. Greg Cowles recommended Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood. John Williams recommended Breath by Tim Winton, Cloudstreet by Tim Winton, Dirt music by Tim Winton, and Island Home by Tim Winton, and discussed The shepherd's hut by Tim Winton. Tina Jordan recommended The Doll Factory by Elizabeth Macneal. Pamela Paul recommended Ma'am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret by Craig Brown.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Yellow House
The Yellow House by Sarah M.
Discussed“Sarah broom will be here to talk about her new book the yellow house”
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The Bluest Eye
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison is a powerful and critically acclaimed novel that examines identity, beauty standards, and trauma through the experiences of a young Black girl growing up in mid-century America.
Discussed“and and one day one of them pushed Across The Bluest Eye by Tony Morrison”
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Beloved
Beloved by Toni Morrison is a powerful historical fiction novel that tells the harrowing story of Sethe, an escaped enslaved woman haunted by the trauma of her past and the literal ghost of her daughter.
Discussed“I tried to read beloved first oh yeah when I was 11 years old I tried to read beloved”
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Tar Baby
Toni Morrison's novel Tar Baby received thoughtful reflection and recommendation across multiple episodes of The Book Review in July 2024.
Discussed“and then a couple years later I checked out a copy of tar baby this this very Edition um from my my high school library”
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Paradise
Discussed“Paradise I agree with Dwight that it does suffer in some ways from being overwritten”
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Song of Solomon
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison is a celebrated novel that follows the life of Macon Dead III, known as Milkman, as he embarks on a journey of self-discovery and ancestral unravelling.
Discussed“I mean but five years after so but it's true that they don't have the sort of Titanic galvanic force of something like Song of Solomon or or beloved or even The Bluest Eye”
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Sula
Sula by Toni Morrison is a powerful and lyrical novel that examines the complex, lifelong friendship between two Black women growing up in a small Ohio town while confronting the oppressive weight of racism and community expectations.
Discussed“and yeah I think my Katie had read she had read Sula because that was the book that I was most fascinated to read”
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Priestdaddy
Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood is a sharply witty and unconventional memoir recounting the author's eccentric upbringing in the Midwest as the daughter of a married Catholic priest.
Recommended“I'm reading a memoir called priest Daddy it's all one word priest daddy by the poet Patricia Lockwood that came out in 2017”
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The shepherd's hut
The Shepherd's Hut is a powerful novel by Tim Winton that follows a troubled fifteen-year-old boy named Jaxie Clacton as he flees across the harsh Australian landscape after his abusive father dies in an accident.
Discussed“so I'm talking to him about his most recent book The Shepherd's Hut but about his career as well and so I've been going back and reading some of his his backlist”
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Breath
Tim Winton's 2008 novel Breath explores the lives of two teenage boys in Western Australia, capturing the intense and often dangerous pursuits of youth.
Recommended“and the one I read most recently is a 2008 novel called breath and it's a fairly short novel by his standards and it's about two teenage boys in Western Australia”
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Cloudstreet
Cloudstreet is a sweeping, multi-generational novel by Tim Winton that chronicles the lives of two working-class families in post-World War II Perth, Australia, as they share a large, dilapidated house and navigate grief, hardship, and the supernatural.
Recommended“oh what first you know there's a big novel from the early 90s called Cloud street that I think is the way that a lot of people find him”
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Dirt music
Dirt Music is a critically acclaimed novel by Tim Winton that tells a sweeping story of love, escape, and redemption against the rugged backdrop of Western Australia.
Recommended“I really loved a novel called dirt music”
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Island Home
Island Home is a reflective memoir by Tim Winton that blends personal history with passionate environmental advocacy centered on the Australian landscape.
Recommended“I really loved this breath and he's got a beautiful Memoir from a few years ago called Island home which is really just a sort of environmentalist activist book about Australia”
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The Doll Factory
The Doll Factory is a historical thriller novel by Elizabeth Macneal set in Victorian London against the vibrant backdrop of the Great Exhibition.
Recommended“so I'm reading the doll factory by Elizabeth mcneel which was part of our July Thriller issue”
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Ma'am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret
Ma'am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret by Craig Brown is an unconventional, kaleidoscopic biography that shatters traditional biographical norms to portray the rebellious and often tragic royal.
Recommended“I'm reading a book I said I was going to read it this summer against all of my initial better instincts 99 glimpses of Princess Margaret by Craig Brown on the cover it says riging irresistible unput downable”
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Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“there was this book that this woman had written about slavery and I don't know if at the time it was like talked about as like in some way related to roots or what”
“I know Leon Urus it's not really I read all of exodus”