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Summary: A very compassionate book!
Review: This is the first book by Bebe Moore Campbell I have ever read and I fully intend to read the others. I felt that she had a very deep connection with all of her characters, regardlesss of color. I have read some black others that wrote with an obvious bias, and with this book I felt none of that. I also thought she did an excellent job of portraying the woman's role in a marriage and in society. I noticed that in with both the black and the white characters the woman were going through very similar trials. It was very interesting that when it came to an issue of social class as the years went on that the citizens of Hopewell became divided by how much money they had and no longer by the color of their skin. It just shows that money still transcends everyhting else to determine one's role in the social pyramid. Overall I would recommend this book to anyone, it gives a true understanding of the process of desegregation and the mindset people were living in.
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Summary: A very compassionate book!
Review: This is the first book by Bebe Moore Campbell I have ever read and I fully intend to read the others. I felt that she had a very deep connection with all of her characters, regardlesss of color. I have read some black others that wrote with an obvious bias, and with this book I felt none of that. I also thought she did an excellent job of portraying the woman's role in a marriage and in society. I noticed that in with both the black and the white characters the woman were going through very similar trials. It was very interesting that when it came to an issue of social class as the years went on that the citizens of Hopewell became divided by how much money they had and no longer by the color of their skin. It just shows that money still transcends everyhting else to determine one's role in the social pyramid. Overall I would recommend this book to anyone, it gives a true understanding of the process of desegregation and the mindset people were living in.
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Summary: These Blues Are About Layers of Issues
Review: This story begins in the 50's, in rural Mississippi, and travels to the 90's.I especially enjoyed reading this book for the unspoken sociopsychological rules that were pressed upon everyone, based upon history, rather than being based upon self-definition. Like Bebe Moore Campbell's other books, I also enjoyed being a fly on the wall, as I explored the dialogues between the characters, and the thoughts that the characters were driven by. This is a masterpiece story about the 3-sided struggle between legal changes, social changes, and those that are expected within families. Yes, while laws are changing, you can't legislate forcing people to like, trust, respect and celebrate one another.
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Summary: We always make it through hard times
Review: Throughout the book there is alot of talk about ethnicity, plantation owners, slaves, and even racial slurs. However, I did not think of the book so much as a racial novel, but more like as a way of expressing how everyone undergoes some type of difficulty or problem in their life. Although it seems like no matter how hard you try to what you have to or need to so to overcome trying times, more just keeps piling on. The title "Your Blues Ain't Like Mine", seemed to be a way of differentiating each characters scenario. No one thought the other had it worse. It was like they were comparing how their lifestyles had changed after Floyd killed Armstrong. However, none of these people really had it that bad, with the exception of Floyd of course. They each rose above their problems. Obviously this was no overnight task, but they did make it. Which is the same with us. We always make it through the hard times, even though it seems beyond our reach. Bebe Moore Campbell did an excellent job of composing this novel. It is obvious that she had her audience in mind. This is prominent in the way she is able to keep the interest of the reader. With each page the anticipation grows fonder. You stay in constant wonder as to what is next to come. Through her story telling she enables her readers to appreciate the less difficult problems occurring in their lives.
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Summary: One from the heart...
Review: What a read! In her book, YOUR BLUES AIN'T LIKE MINE, Bebe Moore Campbell serves up thirty years of our national history as it was lived and endured by the residents of Hopewell, Mississippi. The characters are fictional, but the author has imbued them with a sense of suffering and vitality that is as deliciously real as the smell of fried chicken and tamales wafting from Ida Long's kitchen window. Even though this story begins almost a century after Lincoln "freed" the slaves in the South by signing the Emancipation Proclamation, it is still a tale of slavery and of peoples' struggles to be free. Not all of the "slaves" in this novel are poor, and not all of them are African-American. Indeed, the author uses this intricately detailed tapestry to show that slavery is what happens when a person quits fighting for freedom and acquiesces to the dominance of others. This is one not easily forgotten!
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Summary: Gritty but Good
Review: What I liked about this novel is that Ms. Campbell compares the two families and see how they fared. In reality, they both suffered the effects of that one act.And it kept on until it ultimately destroyed the Coxes. They never really recovered from that, and it showed. Now about Delotha, she pinned all her hopes on her second son, and forgot the other two daughters she had before him and paid a price for that as well. But I felt that they did more better than the Cox. It is sad, but it really didn't pay for that boy to die. Up to this day, on that Till case, some said he said something to the lady,some said he did something else, if you ask me, he died in vain. Why?? What was the point????? In my opinion, you can never do something in this world, and not pay the price one way or the other and in this book, that is what happened.
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Summary: Your Blues Ain't Like Mine
Review: Your Blues Ain't Like Mine is a well developed book. You experience the different situations that each character went through. No matter of their race, age, or social class. It is hard to put the book down.
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Summary: Who can resist to keep it right next to your pillow?
Review: Your Blues Ain't Like Mine shows many angles of suffering, whether you are black or white it tugs at your heart strings and touches your very soul. This book reminds us all that there is hate, sadness and desperation in every race. After reading this book, I challenge anyone to resist the fact that we are all the same. This book will stay in your thoughts forever, as it should.~Kaili
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Summary: This book was great!!
Review: Your blues aint like mine was very emotional. From the beggining it catches your attention till the end. When your reading it you feel like your an actual character from the book.
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Summary: This book was great!!
Review: Your blues aint like mine was very emotional. From the beggining it catches your attention till the end. When your reading it you feel like your an actual character from the book.
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