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The Bluest Eye (Vintage International)
Toni Morrison
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A PARADE BEST BOOK OF ALL TIME
From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner—a powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity that asks questions about race, class, and gender with characteristic subtlety and grace.
In Morrison’s acclaimed first novel, Pecola Breedlove—an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others—prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different.
This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment.
Here, Morrison’s writing is “so precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry” (The New York Times).
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Boozhoo Books\ \ Naomi\ \ • Mar 30
[Hello All,\ \ Find the details for April’s book clubs below!\ \ If you’re new, the bookclub chats happen in Discord (channels will be up for book clubs and the Toni Morrison readalong tmw!) \ \ Of note: Our April bookclub pick for women in horror is Silk and Sinew (nominated for a Stoker this year!) and is edited by Boozhoo Books’ Spring author: Kristy Park Kulski \ \ Our April Good Day to Read Indigenous selection is Old School Indian! \ \
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Boozhoo Books\ \ Naomi\ \ • Mar 23
[Hello All,\ \ I've attached this weeks community calendar! You may notice, I moved last weeks written posts to this week! (Last week got way too busy!\ \ Here's what you need to know!\ \
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- Toni Morrison read a long! Bay Area Book Festival recently invited me to a chat with Namwali Serpell for her new release On Morrison and it motivated me to read all of Morrison's work in chronological order. A few folks in the Discord said they wanted to join, so we are starting with The Bluest Eye in April alongside On Morrison.\ \
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Kist Reads\ \ Kist\ \ • Jan 21
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[Hey, hey you, the book club options for February are here! I was going to shoot a video for this but I figured I'd switch it up give you first peek and put up the votes in the Discord serverright away.\ \ As some of the folk in the Discord know, I've gone full dictator for the History Sickos Book Club for next month. I was reading Fear & Fury by Heather Ann Thompson, loving it, and stopped a little over halfway through so we could discuss it next month. I'm also setting up an interview with the author for sometime in February so you can submit questions. Mine was an advanced reader copy and the official release date is January 27. In return for being a dictator on this round I'll figure something out for another month where we do something community-based for selecting options like we've done in the past.\ \ For the Fiction Sickos Book Club, here are the options with quick blurbs on what they're about.\ \ THE BLUEST EYE by TONI MORRISON\ \
In Morrison’s acclaimed first novel, Pecola Breedlove—an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others—prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment.\ \ THE NICKEL BOYS by COLSON WHITEHEAD\ \ When Elwood Curtis, a black boy growing up in 1960s Tallahassee, is unfairly sentenced to a juvenile reformatory called the Nickel Academy, he finds himself trapped in a grotesque chamber of horrors. Elwood’s only salvation is his friendship with fellow “delinquent” Turner, which deepens despite Turner’s conviction that Elwood is hopelessly naive, that the world is crooked, and that the only way to survive is to scheme and avoid trouble. As life at the Academy becomes ever more perilous, the tension between Elwood’s ideals and Turner’s skepticism leads to a decision whose repercussions will echo down the decades.\ \ ALLEGEDLY by TIFFANY D. JACKSON\ \ Mary B. Addison killed a baby.\ \ Allegedly. She didn’t say much in that first interview with detectives, and the media filled in the only blanks that mattered: A white baby had died while under the care of a churchgoing black woman and her nine-year-old daughter. The public convicted Mary and the jury made it official. But did she do it?\ \ There wasn’t a point to setting the record straight before, but now she’s got Ted—and their unborn child—to think about. When the state threatens to take her baby, Mary’s fate now lies in the hands of the one person she distrusts the most: her Momma. No one knows the real Momma. But does anyone know the real Mary?\ \ CROOKED PLOW by ITAMAR VIEIRA JUNIOR\ \ Deep in Brazil's neglected Bahia hinterland, two sisters find an ancient knife beneath their grandmother's bed and, momentarily mystified by its power, decide to taste its metal. The shuddering violence that follows marks their lives and binds them together forever.\ \ I'm putting this vote up in the Discord right now! Also, if you're struggling to find access to these on Spotify/Libby or whatever you use, Audible has a deal going on right now for new/lapsed members (super full flag waving disclosure: I am an Amazon affiliate and I do earn commissions).\ \ Also a reminder that our imprints first book release, A Complement of Scoundrels by S.V. Lockwood is available for pre-order! A lot of people have asked what if there's a Best Place to pre-order it from, and while it's available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million and others, I know a good deal of people prefer pre-ordering it from Bookshop dot org because it supports independent bookstores. but ultimately you do you boo. And marking it as "Want to Read" (and maybe leaving a sneaky 5 star rating/review re: your excitement level if you so choose to do so) on Goodreads is a great signal for retailers.\ \ Upgrade for $5 or login](https://kistreadsbooks.binderybooks.com/item/DTYUu78paDaDippBORyA/)
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Reads with Rachel\ \ Rachel\ \ • May 1 2025
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Wanderland Reads\ \ Sayer\ \ • Apr 7 2025
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📚✨ Join me as I kick off our ongoing series on Banned Books!
These are must-read titles that challenge censorship and spark meaningful conversations. These books often face banning for their themes of social justice, sexuality, and political dissent.
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Peppered Ink\ \ Mary\ \ • Feb 6 2025
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Let's talk HB-710 and a few other ridiculous measures we ought to be challenging.
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all the books i read in august 2024!
truly a great month (except for my one 2 star read)🫣
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The Inky Phoenix\ \ Kathryn Budig\ \ • Oct 2 2023
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It’s #BannedBooksWeek : now is the time to be loud about the freedom to read and create a world where everyone can see themselves in the pages of a book. Here’s a list to get you going. #theinkyphoenix #inkyphoenixpress #booktok #bannedbookshelf #bannedbooks
Violetear Books\ \ Kevin\ \ • Jul 19 2023
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What have you bought recently? #books #booktok #reading #bookworm
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Violetear Books\ \ Kevin\ \ • Jun 26 2023
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#ad You have to check out this bookstore! @Yelp recently announced their top bookstores celebrating diversity and Pride, and Reparations Club in LA deserved to be on the list! It is a Black and woman-owned business that is helping to promote diversity in literature. What is YOUR favorite bookstore on the Yelp list? #yelp #sponsored #books #booktok #bookshopping
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WPD Books\ \ William\ \ • Apr 16 2023
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Replying to @stinkywinemom Toni Morrison wrote some great novels. These are my thoughts on which to start with. #tonimorrison #beloved #songofsolomon #sula #thebluesteye #booktok
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