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The tree of our family was parted – branches here, roots there – parted for their lumber.

The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates

October 31, 2020 by Sophia Leave a Comment

I first found Ta-Nehisi Coates when my friend recommended The Beautiful Struggle to me. I found it very moving and have since read every book Coates has written. I’m also using The Water Dancer for Cannonball Bingo. It is filling the “Repeat” square. I am repeating “Uncannon” since Ta-Nehisi Coates is not an old, white man. In a story about slavery, Coates uses the words “Tasked” and “Quality” instead of slave and master. Hiram Walker is one of the Tasked. His life is relatively comfortable compared to some of […]

What do you tell your children? (CBR12Bingo: Uncannon)

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

October 13, 2020 by octothorp Leave a Comment

There’s a line from Lindy West’s Shrill that really resonated with me, in her case about her disillusionment with comedy, “Feminism is really just the long slow realization that the things you love hate you.” There’s truth to that for pretty much any intersectional thinking, and Between the World and Me is basically Ta-Nehisi Coates speaking directly to his teenage son about his long slow realization that the same is true of anti-racism. His long, slow realization is that the Dream (capitalization his) of white […]

The Water Dancer – a brilliant novel

The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates

February 12, 2020 by MarkAbaddon Leave a Comment

Since I know Ta-Nehisi Coates was writing the Black Panther comic for a couple of years, and the blurb I read about this book was that it was about a young man with extraordinary abilities, I thought it would be a more action oriented style of novel. I could not have been more wrong. Yes, the main character, Hiram Walker, does possess an ability he calls conducting, but it is used very infrequently in the story as he really does not learn how to use […]

Future Required Reading

The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates

January 9, 2020 by thewheelbarrow 4 Comments

I love Coates writing style. When I read Between the World and Me and We Were Eight Years in Power, I wished that I could write like him, with his style and vocabulary. He says things the way I would want to say them. That is why I read The Water Dancer and nothing has changed. I still wish I could write like Coates but the thing I like best about him is that I know that I cannot because I have not and will […]

Everyone should read this book. Especially maybe your mom.

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

July 25, 2018 by cheerbrarian 2 Comments

I consider myself fairly (very) liberal and open-minded which for me includes having a broad understanding of issues in America today, including the prevalence and pervasiveness of racism as it relates to being black in America. Obviously as a white woman my experience is one dimensional, and I know that I cannot really understand what it is to walk in the shoes of a black person in America. This book though, this book. Wow. If anything can really show white people what it is like, […]

I feel a little lost here, but I still like it

April 28, 2018 by llp Leave a Comment

Living in a pretty small, remote town, we make certain to take the kids (yeah…the kids) to a comic book store whenever we are in a bigger city. I walked in to one this winter, and all packaged up just like they knew I was coming, there were the six issues in the limited run World of Wakanda comic series. It hit all the right buttons: Black Panther, so hot right now! Roxane Gay and Yona Harvey, interesting feminist thinker and poet, first two black […]

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