New topic
Printable| Author | Message |
Anyone read "Bailey's Cafe" by Gloria Naylor...? ....I'm just reading this book myself, and.... it's heart wrenching, the part I just read. Anyone else here read it? If so, what were your opinions? | |
- E-mail - orgNote -  Report post to moderator |
I never heard of it but I just looked it up on Wikipedia and it sounds interesting. I might buy this. | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
I read Bailey's Cafe many years ago and also The Women Of Brewster Place. Great stories and excellent writing.
Gloria Naylor is one of those people that I wish would write more books. Prince, in you I found a kindred spirit...Rest In Paradise. | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
babynoz said: I read Bailey's Cafe many years ago and also The Women Of Brewster Place. Great stories and excellent writing.
Gloria Naylor is one of those people that I wish would write more books. Same here. It's been many years since I read Gloria Naylor. Her books are very good, but she doesn't write often enough. Mama Day was very good too. | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
...the part that I was reading consistently kept reminding me of "Queen" by Alex Haley..... did anyone else feel that....? | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
OK, I think I'm giving up. I've covered rape, paedophilia, prostitution..... I can't take any more of this... I got this book thinking it would be happy, which is what I need right now..... can any of you tell me how this book ends? If there's any more of what I just read, I don't think I'll be able to handle it...... babynoz, you've got a funny idea of what a "great" story is..... | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
...also, out of curiosity, is Toni Morrison's writing anything like this....? Thank God I didn't try her then..... | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
domainator2010 said: ...also, out of curiosity, is Toni Morrison's writing anything like this....? Thank God I didn't try her then..... Toni Morrison is not easy to read. She has a very unique style and her stories are deep and not necessarily happy. If you can't handle Gloria, you won't like Toni. | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
Prince, in you I found a kindred spirit...Rest In Paradise. | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
You believe that all great stories are happy ones? Tell that to Shakespeare or Alice Walker....
Prince, in you I found a kindred spirit...Rest In Paradise. | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
I am NOT!! I've done a lot of reading in my time, all kinds of books, but..... is it a crime to want something happy, as I said....?
Out of curiosity, is America actually like what's described in the book.....? Or at least, used to be....? I find it hard to believe that humans could simply survive in the middle of it all...... | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
Prince, in you I found a kindred spirit...Rest In Paradise. | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
My! What a charming personality! | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
Prince, in you I found a kindred spirit...Rest In Paradise. | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
Yes, gawwd!! Love Naylor's ability to take you into the bittersweet underworld of inner city urban life in the 60's and 70's. Similarly to Toni Morrison, she's also rather adept at placing you smack in the gut-wrenching heart of upper middle class suburban dysfunction in novels like "Linden Hills". | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
Empress said: babynoz said: I read Bailey's Cafe many years ago and also The Women Of Brewster Place. Great stories and excellent writing.
Gloria Naylor is one of those people that I wish would write more books. Same here. It's been many years since I read Gloria Naylor. Her books are very good, but she doesn't write often enough. Mama Day was very good too. I forgot about Mama Day! Also one of my all time favorites next to the other two you all mentioned. It's been such a long time since reading them, they could be about due for a re-visit in the coming year. In hindsight, I could see myself going for Mama Day again, particularly to clear up my fuzzy memory on the hair branding incident towards the end.... | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
Prince, in you I found a kindred spirit...Rest In Paradise. | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
babynoz said:
It's a companion piece to Brewster Place. Remember the young character Kiswana/Melanie who moved from the suburbs to be "amongst her people"with her Shakespearean actor boyfriend, who was helping the next door neighbor with the Bay Bay's kids & infant fixation ? If you remember her story, there's a point when her mom visits and she starts moaning and groaning about her family's shallow life in the suburbs...the suburbs of [i]Linden Hills. I'll give nothing away other than to say the good, upstanding folks of Linden Hills have all the surpressed angst and quietly hidden horrors of a Toni novel, like the Morisson books "Family" or "Love".  | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
Prince, in you I found a kindred spirit...Rest In Paradise. | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |