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Helen Mercer
@helen-mercer · Edinburgh, Scotland · Joined January 2024
Retired librarian. Believes a book you abandon still counts as a book you read.
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Beloved · 5 out of 5
Difficult, and worth every difficult page
The first fifty pages ask you to trust that the confusion is deliberate. It is. Once the chronology settles, the book becomes almost unbearably clear. I would suggest reading the Sethe and Denver sections in one sitting if you can — the effect is cumulative and interruption blunts it.
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April selection: where did Beloved lose you (if it did)?
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