The Color Purple – Cannonball Read 17

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The Color Purple by Alice Walker

November 23, 2022 by Wanderlustful Leave a Comment

The Color Purple felt intimidating before I started it- it won Alice Walker the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for fiction and it was adapted into a much loved and lauded film that launched Oprah and Whoopi Goldberg’s careers to the next level. (I have seen stills of the film but have yet to watch it). Additionally, I’ve been lumping it in mentally with Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, which was beautiful writing but tough subject matter (the ‘colour in the title’ wasn’t helping me either). From […]

The Color Purple – Alice Walker (1982)

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

March 29, 2021 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

I think this is maybe the third or fourth time I’ve read this book. Once in college for a Black Women’s Writers course, once for a Southern Literature course, and now, and I think maybe one other time. In addition, I’ve read the sequel (Possessing the Secret of Joy), which carries on especially the conversation about FGM that this book gets into with the Nettie in Africa sections. This particular time, I listened to Alice Walker reading the book for an audio edition (which involves […]

Theology 101

October 15, 2016 by ElCicco 10 Comments

All ways of living can be sanctified, and for each individual, the ideal way is that to which our Lord leads him through the natural development of his tastes and the pressure of circumstances. ~ Tielhard de Chardin Another step along my literary walk of shame. How am I only just now reading this Pulitzer and National Book Award winner that Spielberg made into a movie starring Whoopie and Oprah? While it deals with hard subject matter (rape, incest, racism, misogyny — just like the […]

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