Global Reading Challenge: BELOVED by Toni Morrison

ISBN: 9780099511656 [UK]

Continent: North America

Country: USA

Title: Beloved

Author: Toni Morrison

First published in: 1988

Awards: Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, 1988; Frederic G. Melcher Book Award, 1988

My pick from my home country, the USA, is Toni Morrison's Beloved. A dark tale about an ex-slave who is haunted by the ghost of the baby daughter whose life she ended, Beloved is easily the most powerful novel I've read in recent years.

SONG OF SOLOMON by Toni Morrison

Well, the Internet connection setter-upper men arrived yesterday (a day earlier than scheduled, as I discovered when I opened the door in my Eeyore pajamas and blinked in confusion at their chipper faces), so now I once again have Internet access without the 15 minute trek to my local library (not a moment too soon, as overhearing semi-literate teen boys trying to sign up to online dating sites using the library computers was getting a mite depressing). In short, I'm happy to be back on Blogger and Twitter with the rest of you fine people.

Since it's February, and February is Black History Month (in America and Canada; it's in October in Britain), I've decided to read a couple of books by one of the United States' greatest authors of any color—Nobel laureate Toni Morrison.