#tayari jones

[smokefalls]

But how you feel love and understand love are two different things.

Tayari Jones, An American Marriage

#Tayari Jones #An American Marriage #quote #fiction #2023 reads

[beautyandtheuniverse]

"I've likely rolled with punches when I should have hit back," she said. "But I rolled my way into a life I love."

Tayari Jones, An American Marriage

#an american marriage #tayari jones #book quotes #lit quotes #literature #fiction

[words-and-coffee]

Sometimes it’s exhausting for me to simply walk into the house. I try and calm myself, remember that I’ve lived alone before. Sleeping by myself didn’t kill me then and will not kill me now. But this what loss has taught me of love. Our house isn’t simply empty, our home has been emptied. Love makes a place in your life, it makes a place for itself in your bed. Invisibly, it makes a place in your body, rerouting all your blood vessels, throbbing right alongside your heart. When it’s gone, nothing is whole again.

Tayari Jones, An American Marriage

#Tayari Jones #An American Marriage #quote #quotes

[bookaddict24-7]

AUTHOR FEATURE:

﹒Tayari Jones﹒

Six Books Written By this Author:

An American Marriage

Silver Sparrow

Leaving Atlanta

The Untelling

Half Light

Dispossession

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Happy reading!

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[the-final-sentence]

Six years before Beloved, she didn't need Paul D to tell her that she was her own best thing.

Tayari Jones, from "Her Own Best Thing"

#Tayari Jones #Her Own Best Thing

[mynameismalin]

The moment, when a huge plot happened in the book your just reading and your neuroduvergend mind will be there sitting for 5 minutes and screaming 'What?' in 5.000 different nuances.

#neuroduvergend #book plot #plot #book #reading is good #reading #i am reading #amdjsk #THE PLOT MAN #MY WHOLE HEAD IS SCREAMING WHAG?MMM #IN LIKE SO MANY TONES #LIKE BRO WHAT #WHAT #An American Marriage #Tayari Jones

[writerly-ramblings]

Books Read in July:

1). Small Things Like These (Claire Keegan)

2). Brown Girls (Daphne Palasi Andreades)

3). An American Marriage (Tayari Jones)

4). Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Olga Tokarczuk)

5). Abigail (Magda Szabó)

6). Foster (Claire Keegan)

7). The Best American Food Writing 2021 (edited by Silvia Killingsworth and Gabrielle Hamilton)

8). Slow Days, Fast Company (Eve Babitz)

9). Translating Myself and Others (Jhumpa Lahiri)

10). The Poetry of Strangers (Brian Sonia-Wallace)

#booklist #my literary life #booklr #adult booklr #claire keegan #daphne palasi andreades #tayari jones #olga tokarczuk #magda szabo #the best american food writing #eve babitz #jhumpa lahiri #brain sonia-wallace

[thatwritererinoriordan]

#zora neale hurston #hitting a straight lick with a crooked stick #stories #harlem renaissance #tayari jones

[m-c-easton]

Book Picks: The Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois

**Triggering Content (child abuse) Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award (yes, people, I’m still catching up on early pandemic booklists), Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’ novel The Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois has given us an immensely rich novel, one that hooked me with the depth and drama of a Black family spanning the history of America. The structure is complex, opening most of the eleven…

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#Ailey Garfield #Bernardine Evaristo #Black and Indigenous history #child abuse in literature #Daphne du Maurier #Douglas Sirk #feminist fiction #Girl Woman Other #Honorée Fanonne Jeffers #intergenerational trauma #National Book Award longlist #Robert Jones Jr. #slavery in the United States #subtext in literature #Tayari Jones #The Bluest Eye #The Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois #Todd Haynes #Toni Morrison #United States history

[smokefalls]

Human emotion is beyond comprehension, smooth and uninterrupted, like an orb made of blown glass.

Tayari Jones, An American Marriage

#Tayari Jones #An American Marriage #quote #fiction #2023 reads

[andreabadgley]

The dinner dishes are done, and now I can read.

#books #an American marriage #tayari jones

[words-and-coffee]

Love makes a place in your life, it makes a place for itself in your bed. Invisibly, it makes a place in your body, rerouting all your blood vessels, throbbing right alongside your heart. When it’s gone, nothing is whole again.

Tayari Jones, An American Marriage

#Tayari Jones #An American Marriage #quote #quotes #love #heartbreak #grief tw #grief

[wellconstructedsentences]

Home isn't where you land; home is where you launch.

An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

#an American marriage #tayari jones

[rasparagus]

just started reading a new book and wow its refreshing to read good writing after reading a bunch of books that just didnt hit for me

#the book is leaving atlanta by tayari jones #it has a lot of heavy topics but its written so so well #even with the really heavy topics there’s still points that make me laugh bc the main character is so endearing #ro’s.chats

[mynameismalin]

"When she knew you weren't by yourself, she could finally let go." - Celestial, An American Marriage

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Omg. This is good. Good reason too. Man.

#an american marriage #tayari jones #celestial #celeste #georgia #roy #idk man

[philipkindreddickhead]

100 Fiction Books to Read Before You Die

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

The Book of Margery Kempe by Margery Kempe

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Sparks

The Girl by Meridel Le Sueur

The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

Veronica by Mary Gaitskill

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

Kindred by Octavia Butler

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Passing by Nella Larson

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather

Play it as it Lays by Joan Didion

The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende

Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

White Teeth by Zadie Smith

The Power by Naomi Alderman

The Street by Ann Petry

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskill

An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

Small Island by Andrea Levy

The Idiot by Elif Batuman

The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton

The Price of Salt/Carol by Patricia Highsmith

Room by Emma Donoghue

The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch

Garden of Earthly Delights by Joyce Carol Oates

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

Wise Blood by Flannery O Conner

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsey

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

The Awakening by Kate Chopin

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall

House of Incest by Anaïs Nin

The Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

Corregidora by Gayl Jones

Whose Names are Unknown by Sanora Babb

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

See Now Then by Jamaica Kincaid

The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri

Beloved by Toni Morrison

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

My Antonia by Willa Cather

Democracy by Joan Didion

Black Water by Joyce Carol Oates

The Violent Bear it Away by Flannery O Connor

Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier

The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

I Must Betray You be Ruta Sepetys

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

The Mare by Mary Gaitskill

City of Beasts by Isabel Allende

Fledgling by Octavia Butler

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin

The First Bad Man by Miranda July

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Moses, Man of the Mountain by Zora Neale Hurston

Disobedience by Naomi Alderman

Quicksand by Nella Larsen

The Narrows by Ann Petry

The Blood of Others by Simone de Beauvoir

Under the Sea by Rachel Carson

Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee

Under the Net by Iris Murdoch

The Birdcatcher by Gayl Jones

Desert of the Heart by Jane Rule

In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez

The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa

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#fiction #100 books to read before you die