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May 19, 2023ladydrummer rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Terribly important and beautifully written. It handles the subject with aplomb and explains things effectively.
Sep 23, 2021xarathustra rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
A parenting book for a better generation.
Feb 13, 2021
Read the last page if you don't have time for more. White dreamers like me all need to hear it and decide what to do about it.
Dec 22, 2020
Mandy Fowler
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May 06, 2019CarleeMcDot rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
A few days before the hubby and I left for Joshua Tree I saw a friend mention this book as a "game changer" on her Facebook page. I figured I'd throw it on my "for later shelf" at the library so I wouldn't forget, but I noticed the audio…
VanWaniel
Dec 12, 2018VanWaniel rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
At once introspective & profoundly honest, Coates' colloquial-inundated epistle is ratting, brutal, touching, & may have a twinge of hopeful despair (forgiving the contradiction in terms). The discussion & introspection about "race" & the…
Aug 21, 2018WestSlope_TheaH rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Experience Coates’s trademark style---a mix of lyrical personal narrative, reimagined history, essayistic argument, and reportage---in his own voice in this wonderful audiobook about race in America. Don’t miss this moving, thoughtful, and…
Jan 20, 2018WCLSNorthForkLibrary rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Coates' writing style was for me, achingly beautiful. He has the knowledge and talent to draw connections that the reader may never have considered, but that are obvious once they've been pointed out. I will never look at the sitcoms I…
rosstia5
Jul 06, 2017
This book is a very intimate portrait between an African American father and his son. The author explains his thoughts so eloquently and makes the reader feel like we are in Coates mind and world. The audiobook is especially great since…
Mar 12, 2017candacerberger rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
"Between the World and Me" was incredible, and was made all the more powerful by listening to Ta-Nehisi Coates narrate it. I could feel his pain, his hope, his sorrow, his awe. Coates' prose is brilliant and often left me reaching for a…
Feb 01, 2017hinalea98 rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Very powerful book and the author's reading makes it all that more powerful.
Nov 10, 2016Louis Keenan Gardiner- Parks rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Finishing this just after the election debacle make it all the more real and devastating. It helped me see just how ignorant privileged Caucasian males, like myself, are. The book left me feeling even more hopeless than when I started and,…
Aug 12, 2016TechWriter1 rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Listen to the audiobook. In the voice of the author, it is poetry. Let his self seep into your self. Grasp the blunt, life-shaping force of fear and tension and oppression that he feels and run it around in your mind and in your gut. I am…
Jun 20, 2016TheresaAJ rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
In a lyrical, literary essay, Coates examines the issue of race to his 15-year-old son. From his upbringing in a poor, black section of Baltimore, to his exploration of black diversity at Howard University, to his current life as a writer…
Jun 18, 2016SPL_Shauna rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Framed as an open letter to his son, Coates crafts a powerful, heartbreaking howl against the many forms of violence visited upon African Americans in contemporary America. The audiobook is read by the author, which lends the text a…
Feb 24, 2016LexiLou2 rated this title 1.5 out of 5 stars
I borrowed the audio CD of this book, and could not get past the first one. It is painful to listen to and I would much prefer to speak with the author in person. I am a person of color.