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Another Country
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bookshelves: classics, poc-authors, 2021-popsugar-challenge, 2022-popsugar-challenge, queer-content
Feb 20, 2022
bookshelves: classics, poc-authors, 2021-popsugar-challenge, 2022-popsugar-challenge, queer-content
This is an extraordinarily raw, perceptive, sorrowful, blazingly alive exploration of the unknown and mysterious territories of the human heart.
It’s astonishing to me to read a book that � 60 years after its publication � is as unapologetically queer and complex in its depiction of interracial relationships as anything being written today.
To say that James Baldwin was a profoundly wise and visionary thinker is an understatement.
I’m very moved and troubled and stirred to my soul after having read this incredible novel.
It’s astonishing to me to read a book that � 60 years after its publication � is as unapologetically queer and complex in its depiction of interracial relationships as anything being written today.
To say that James Baldwin was a profoundly wise and visionary thinker is an understatement.
I’m very moved and troubled and stirred to my soul after having read this incredible novel.
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Reading Progress
September 14, 2010
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September 15, 2010
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classics
July 12, 2018
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to-read
February 23, 2020
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poc-authors
December 12, 2020
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2021-popsugar-challenge
February 3, 2022
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2022-popsugar-challenge
February 16, 2022
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Started Reading
February 17, 2022
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7.0%
"After a couple of disappointing reads, I needed to be in the company of a strong writer’s work, and this is fitting the bill in a major way."
February 17, 2022
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22.0%
"Finished Chapter 1. Very powerful stuff. Sad and brutal and raw and beautifully captured."
February 17, 2022
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29.13%
"Finished Chapter 2. I’ve really needed to be in the full, confident, steady hands of a masterful writer such as James Baldwin. This is a tough, mournful book that feels every bit as resonant and urgent as it must have felt when it was published 60 years ago."
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February 17, 2022
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41.97%
"Finished Book One. This really is an exceptionally strong novel."
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183
February 19, 2022
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52.29%
"Finished Chapter 1 of Part 2. I didn’t know this book contained so much unapologetically queer content, which must have been shockingly rare for readers to encounter in 1962.
Baldwin remains incredibly adept at bringing to life complex and sometimes contradictory characters in an incredibly vivid and authentic manner."
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228
Baldwin remains incredibly adept at bringing to life complex and sometimes contradictory characters in an incredibly vivid and authentic manner."
February 20, 2022
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87.39%
"Just finished Book Two. It remains extraordinarily perceptive and sad. It’s been a while since I’ve felt so convinced by the depiction of a wide array of characters� inner lives as I am here."
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381
February 20, 2022
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queer-content
February 20, 2022
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Finished Reading
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Feb 20, 2022 04:56PM
So heartening to hear this touched you so. And that it's clearly a treasure which will stay with.
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Baldwin was a giant. Have you seen the 2016 documentary about him?
Mareike wrote: "Baldwin was a giant. Have you seen the 2016 documentary about him?"
I haven’t yet but it is on our list!
Marvelous review! Extraordinarily raw and perceptive indeed—this book completely destroyed me with how good it was. So glad this moved you so strongly as well!
