Michael’s Comments (group member since Nov 14, 2016)

Michael’s comments from the Diversity in All Forms! group.

This is such a wonderful debut novel. Enjoy!

bell hooks was an incredibly insightful writer! Beloved and especially Their Eyes Were Watching God are also amazing!

Benjamin Stora’s history of Algeria was informative. Tom Shapard’s Invention of Decolonization is really academic - struggling thru it

I really enjoyed the action and the characters and felt it was both realistic and touching. My complete review is here.
It is definitely a YA highlight for 2017!

And I really did not like The Known World by Edward P Jones despite its Pulitzer cred. I found the plot too sketchy and did not get attached to any of the characters.

My favorite is Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison but I can also highly two other interesting and insightful autobiographies: those of Malcolm X and Angela Davis.
Happy New Year to all!

Reviewed it on GR and have an astounding number of Liked (for me anyway) gave it only 2* but a rather long discussion. No spoilers is my review so feel free to check it out. No sire what else I can do to help your thread.

Don't know much true crime. Did you already read In Cold Blood by Truman Capote? That one is on my TBR list...

As for depictions of blindness, have you read Blindness by Nobelist José Saramago? Perhaps I was a bit spoiled by that one and The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson.
In terms of Hitler Youth, the depiction in Cat and Mouse by Gunter Grass is amazing and told from his own experience.

Beautiful book and movie - great choice! Sorry I missed the group read

I reviewed this book already so I won't throw out any spoliers. But my general impression was that the characters were a bit "tropish" and the scenario seemed to be begging for Spielberg to turn it into a Hulu miniseries. I'll take time to read everyone else's comments but feel free to react, comment or disagree with my impressions!