TEASER TUESDAYS is a weekly book meme hosted at The Purple Booker. To participate, just open the book you are currently reading to a random page, and choose two ‘teaser’ sentences from somewhere on that page. (no spoilers!)
I’m probably the last person on earth to read this (modern) classic, but somehow I never had the chance to actually pick it up. Both the Beat The Backlist challenge and Reading Through The Centuries challenge are a great excuse to finally read The Color Purple by Alice Walker. I’ve only just started it, but I’ll be looking forward to be finding out why so many people seem to love this story.
My teaser (6%):
“I spend my wedding day running from the oldest boy. He twelve. His mama died in his arms and he don’t want to hear nothing bout no new one.”
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Great teaser. I can assure you that you are not the last person on earth to read it 😉
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Haha I feel a bit better now! 😉 I guess it’s not the most popular modern classic out there, but I saw so many ratings at goodreads that I kind of felt that way.
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I haven’t read this one either! Love the teaser
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Great to hear I’m not the only one! It’s without doubt a fast read.
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I also haven’t read this one 🙂 I like the teaser though!
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Good to hear I’m not the only one how hasn’t read it yet after all… 😉
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I’ve heard a lot of good things about this book! I hope you enjoy it!
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The second half was definitely a lot better than the first! It took me some time to get used to the writing style, but I can definitely see why it’s on the modern classics AND banned list now.
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It’s on the banned books list?
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As far as I know it is… It definitely ticks all the boxes with all those mentions of incest, rape and other unpleasant scenes. The Color Purple is definitely out there and doesn’t hide the ‘dirty’ details!
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Interesting…
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I’ve never read it! 😀 Nice teaser! I’m currently reading Windcatcher by A.J.Norfield.
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I thought everyone had already read it, but it seems I was completely wrong. xD
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You are most assuredly not the only one to have not read this book yet since it’s been sitting on my TBR for at least ten years! I also hope to get to it this year thanks to Beat the Backlist, but first I have a lot of library books to get through.
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Wow ten years, you definitely win! It hasn’t been on my radar that long, but long enough to qualify as a Beat The Backlist read. I struggled a bit with the beginning, but the second half definitely picks up. I hope you will be able to get to it! 🙂
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