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akamuva's review
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
4.25
sweetearlgrey's review against another edition
3.75
Reading Toni Morrison’s Mouth Full of Blood was like attending a master class in literature, sociology, and life. Keeping up with her thoughts often felt like a rewarding intellectual pursuit; though she does write with tremendous clarity.
The structure of the book, however, could be improved. I found myself wishing for a layout that placed the origin of each essay either below its title or at its conclusion. Moreover, encountering repeated paragraphs across chapters was a jarring experience. While this might have been a deliberate stylistic choice to emphasize certain points, it often led to a sense of disruption rather than reinforcement.
Morrison’s voice offers wisdom that seems to echo through time. Yet, I couldn’t help but feel that the book’s presentation (which was likely not her own doing) could have been more thoughtfully aligned with the elegance and fluidity of Morrison’s writing.
sofia_brizio's review against another edition
challenging
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
3.75
colorfulleo92's review against another edition
5.0
The whole book was great, really made you think while reading the chapters of essays, speeches and so on. Probably a book I have to re read a few times over the years but it's a great reading experience
addyaw's review against another edition
5.0
Love reading Toni Morrison. You really feel involved in what she has to say. The Sarah Lawrence commencement speech in particular is one I will return to regularly from this book.