A review by sweetearlgrey
Mouth Full of Blood: Essays, Speeches, Meditations by Toni Morrison

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.