My sister gave me an IOU at Christmastime for God Help the Child, Toni Morrison’s latest book. I waited for months for this book to arrive. And then when it did, I had to work my way through an enormous library stack. Well, I finally committed to stopping all library requests and reading the books from my stack. One of the first I made room for was this one. And it was worth the wait. The theme of this book can be summed up in […]

It’s been a few weeks since I read this book. I swore I would not get behind. And then the school year started, and it’s been way easier to read books than it is to write about them. Heck, I’m having a hard time balancing my grading and my own academic writing at the moment. Ah, well. No time like the present to start righting the ship, eh? Home is Toni Morrison’s second-latest novel. I checked out the audiobook from the library, because she reads […]

Last week, I was taking a road trip up to Milwaukee, and I also had some indexing and sorting of teaching documents to complete. So last week’s library trip entailed some audiobook acquisitions. I’m trying to get back into that routine, since my commute will be starting in less than two weeks. I’ve been wanting to read Toni Morrison’s newest novels for a while, so A Mercy seemed like a good place to start. Plus, Morrison herself reads the audiobook. I was sold. A Mercy […]