chianti_cimex_reads rated Song of Solomon: 4 stars

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. …
Montreal - looking for the catharsis that comes from reading finely crafted sentences, and to get in closer touch with a higher power of my understanding
"For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry. Yes, indeed." - Mary Oliver
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Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. …
There’s some sections which drag, like the part with the muskrats, which prevent it from being a 10/10, but this is a strong 8.5 or 9. My wish for Dillard to have done a bit more editing might just be my own impatience. This is worth taking the time to read slowly, piece by piece. There is so much to think about in here. An incredible work I am sure to return to, which affirms one’s faith in all that can be seen and all that cannot.
Letters written to F.X. Kappus during the years 1903-1908. Chronicle of Rilkes's life for the years 1903-1908 (p. 81-123).
White Noise is the eighth novel by Don DeLillo, published by Viking Press in 1985. It won the U.S. National …
"A restored edition of Sylvia Plath's collection of poems that were published after her death that restores the selection and …