I read this book to help me understand how this book ended up on the top ten list of most banned books in schools and library books across the US. Toni Morrison is a famous author and Nobel Prize winner. How can her book be banned? …
Feb 12, 2023stutipandey702 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
This is my favorite novel: a beautiful but grotesque, angering but heartbreaking, inconclusive but effective narrative that shows readers the steps leading to a broken hopeless identity. The Bluest Eye is one of Toni Morrison's best works,…
Feb 11, 2023quacktus13 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
This novel is utterly profound, beautiful, and tragic. So much meaning is buried into this novel that it can be read and reread for a new perspective every time. Morrison does not shy away from the most brutal, horrific sides of Pecola's…
Feb 11, 2023GloriannZ rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
This book is honestly 5 stars. I was just not prepared/used to some moments that hit harder than others. This book is such a work of art and is so thoughtful. Agreeing with others, "The Bluest Eye" is beautifully constructed.
"In Morrison’s acclaimed first n(o)vel, Pecola Breedlove—an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others—prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that…
Sep 17, 2022poibooks rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Dear Toni Morrison,
I know you reflected back on this novel thinking you weren’t able to impart in us what you were hoping to in writing The Bluest Eye. Maybe, its more that some of us are only now catching up to what the novel presents…
Jul 25, 2021rdjones17 rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
The Bluest Eye is a non-linear story that follows Pecola Breedlove, a little black girl, as she craves to have the bluest eyes in her town so that she may feel beautiful. While centering around Pecola, the story dives into the backstories…
Jun 15, 2021dricco rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
“I destroyed white baby dolls.”
Pecola Breedlove. “Each night, without fail, she prayed for blue eyes.” And even though I'm not sure what ultimately happened with that particular issue, I loved the journey! She lived below an apartment…
Oct 19, 2020peacebenow rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
If you ever want to understand how poverty can kill the spirit of people, you just need to read this book. Ms Morrison packs a lot of information into how people see themselves, see others and people who don't have that vision. How a lack…
Oct 12, 2020Magicworld rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
I don’t think I’ve read anything like The Bluest Eye. A book so poetic and so profoundly sorrowful at the same time. Whatever I write here will only barely scratch the surface and show how much I still have to understand about it.
The…
Aug 14, 2020bobpruner rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
Not an easy read because of the subject matter, narrative style, time juxtapositions and complex language but a worthwhile read if you want to get a glimpse of what it was like to be a black woman in the 1960's and earlier. We rarely get…
Aug 16, 2019britneym rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
This book was a bit much for me. The author did a good job in revealing other POV without showing any bias or trying to sway the reader in any way. However, I had to skip over a part of the book because I didn’t feel comfortable being in…
@ home watching Y&R and saw this book giving as a gift. Searched immediately to place on HOLD. Can't wait to read with a comfy blanket and a cup of java.
Mar 27, 2019reinenoire rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
This was my first Morrison novel. I kept thinking about the characters well after I finished the book. The story is very telling and haunting (in a way). I enjoyed it.
Dec 20, 2018mayog rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
The Bluest Eye relates the story of the rape of Pecola Breedlove--and that isn't a spoiler as it shows up at the very beginning of the book. More to the point, in this her first novel, Toni Morrison uses the story of Pecola Breedlove to…
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