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This year I'm going to make a valiant attempt to log all the books I read. I started to do this last year and let it fall by the wayside because I wasn't reading a lot of books last year because my concentration is still inconsistent. It's been better as of late, though, so I should make more progress on my booklist this year. I'll post the amazon.com review of the book and also add a few notes of my own...
Push, Sapphire (3 1/2 stars out of 5)
"Claireece Precious Jones endures unimaginable hardships in her young life. Abused by her mother, raped by her father, she grows up poor, angry, illiterate, fat, unloved and generally unnoticed. So what better way to learn about her than through her own, halting dialect. That is the device deployed in the first novel by poet and singer Sapphire. "Sometimes I wish I was not alive," Precious says. "But I don't know how to die. Ain' no plug to pull out. 'N no matter how bad I feel my heart don't stop beating and my eyes open in the morning." An intense story of adversity and the mechanisms to cope with it."
This book was recently made into a movie called "Precious", which I haven't seen but have heard is pretty good.
The writing style of the book was a bit challenging to get used to, but it was engrossing enough to keep reading. It's a raw, in-your-face type book filled with the horrors of Precious' young life. Definitely a good read.
Push, Sapphire (3 1/2 stars out of 5)
"Claireece Precious Jones endures unimaginable hardships in her young life. Abused by her mother, raped by her father, she grows up poor, angry, illiterate, fat, unloved and generally unnoticed. So what better way to learn about her than through her own, halting dialect. That is the device deployed in the first novel by poet and singer Sapphire. "Sometimes I wish I was not alive," Precious says. "But I don't know how to die. Ain' no plug to pull out. 'N no matter how bad I feel my heart don't stop beating and my eyes open in the morning." An intense story of adversity and the mechanisms to cope with it."
This book was recently made into a movie called "Precious", which I haven't seen but have heard is pretty good.
The writing style of the book was a bit challenging to get used to, but it was engrossing enough to keep reading. It's a raw, in-your-face type book filled with the horrors of Precious' young life. Definitely a good read.
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