A Lesson Before Dying: A Novel
Registered by Brookler of Powell River, British Columbia Canada on 8/12/2009
This book is in a Controlled Release!
2 journalers for this copy...
Journal Entry 1 by Brookler from Powell River, British Columbia Canada on Wednesday, August 12, 2009
I ran into an acquaintance at the Recycle Bin, preparing to throw this book in! I said I'd take it instead. :)
Journal Entry 2 by Brookler from Powell River, British Columbia Canada on Thursday, December 17, 2009
This is kind of a depressing book, that didn't live up to my expectations. I thought it would be along the lines of "Tuesdays with Morrie": truths about living gleaned when coming face-to-face with our mortality. Instead, this was a book about black injustice, and how one wrongfully condemned to die finds his strength in the end. No profound or earth-shattering ideas or thoughts here, just a story of the poor and down-trodden struggling to maintain their dignity in a disrespectful environment.
I'm sending this book to CynthiaA as my Surprise Wishlist RABCK for December, completing my promise to send a Wishlist book as a RABCK every month in 2009. Hope you like it!
I'm sending this book to CynthiaA as my Surprise Wishlist RABCK for December, completing my promise to send a Wishlist book as a RABCK every month in 2009. Hope you like it!
Thanks Brookler. I've not heard of this book before, but it sounds intriguing. Happy New Year to you!
It is hard to say you love a book when its story is so tragic. But I did love this story. It should have a place among America's most important novels. In 1950's Louisiana, a young man is sentenced to death for the crime of being poor and black and in the wrong place at the wrong time. This story is about how a teacher tries to teach this man/child to face death... But it is also about how a community rallies around a family in need, about leaning on God when there is nothing else, about looking for God when God feels empty, about obligation, heroism, and what really defines "home". Set against a racially segregated South, we see how discrimination and hatred holds people down, and how love and faith can lift people up.
Given to My niece.