The wonderful Toni Morrison has died

[PerkingFaintly]

Beloved was one of the transformative reads of my life.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-49254776

RIP, you amazing woman.

She thought her fingernails could open locks the rain had rained on.

Probably a slight misquotation but that sentence made me really sob.

No, it was

What made her think her fingernails could open locks the rain rained
on?

Oh, lord, I thought of her as entirely ageless and unkillable. RIP an astonishing writer.

Yes, very sad. A massive loss to the world.

America’s greatest writer.
And I bet Donald Trump has never read a word she wrote.

So sad to read this, she changed the way I thought about the world.

Very sad. I was wondering what to read next. I’ve had a copy of Beloved on my shelf for ages so think it’s about time I read it.

An incredible woman. Beloved changed me.

Read Sula next. Better yet borrow/download the audiobook from your local library - read by Toni herself and her voice is a wool blanket pulling you in rocking chair close whilst your hair stands on end.

Oh yes, EndLegalFiction, that's so well put.

You feel her love for you, even while she pulls you in to a warm, dark room wherein are displayed the terrible, broken places of the soul.

I remember exactly where I was when I read Beloved- probably 20 years ago now. As someone said above, a book that changed how I saw the world. What a brilliant woman!

Yep, Beloved is definitely a life changing, unforgettable book. Disturbing in the right way.

She was 88, I agree she was ageless in many ways. 88 is a good age I think.

Agree Trump certainly never read Beloved, he wouldn't be able to be the person he is if he had.

Her fiction kept me going through a difficult time in my late teens.
It's so beautiful.
Playing in the Dark transformed how I interpret literature too.
Amazing woman. Rest in power.