A Lesson Before Dying: A Novel

by Ernest J. Gaines | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 0375702709 Global Overview for this book
Registered by Brookler of Powell River, British Columbia Canada on 8/12/2009
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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!

Journal Entry 3 by CynthiaA from Brantford, Ontario Canada on Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Thanks Brookler. I've not heard of this book before, but it sounds intriguing. Happy New Year to you!

Journal Entry 4 by CynthiaA at Brantford, Ontario Canada on Tuesday, February 3, 2015
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.

Journal Entry 5 by CynthiaA at Brantford, Ontario Canada on Monday, June 22, 2015

Released 8 yrs ago (6/21/2015 UTC) at Brantford, Ontario Canada

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