When reading 'The Bluest Eye' I did not know that it was based upon a true story until I read the afterword, where Toni Morrisson knew of a little black girl at school who wished everyday for blue eyes until she had convinced herself she had them. What a sorry state of despair; I pity this poor girl; who in the book is Pecola. The book is so well written, it is a cycle where at the beginning you learn that Pecola is raped by her father and that she never escapes the vicious circle of victim hood. By the end she is indeed, mad...
Next on the reading list is 'Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit' by Jeanette Winterson. Again based on a true story of self discovery and the search for identity. 'A Gripping Read' so I'm told by the Sunday Times. However for a summer's night it's a cookie dipped in milk and a trashy magazine. I wonder who's who in celebville...
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