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Summary: If you are having trouble sleeping, read this book.
Review: I was forced to read Mama Day for my English class and I have to say it is the most boring book we have read all year. I would try to read it, but the reading was so slow that I would fall asleep after a few pages. I recommend this book to all feminist, women, and people who do not like to take risks.
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Summary: connections within Naylor's writing
Review: I was given Mama Day in my book club and recommend it to anyone looking for a different kind of love story intertwined with family, superstition, black magic and daily life. I found it difficult in the beginning and had to re-read the first few pages to fully grasp the information being set forth. I've also noticed that Ms. Naylor uses references between her novels. George refers to a "Bailey's Cafe" which is the setting and title of another Naylor novel. I believe a sense of loss is felt when a well written novel is finished and I do feel as if I miss these characters.
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Summary: Mama Day
Review: I've been in love with Naylor's text since I randomly picked "Bailey's Cafe" off of the library shelves one August afternoon. Naylor's great gift is character development. Her characters are at once vividly realistic and too exotic to exist. She balances on a tightrope stretched between anecdote and the mythical, and does it admirably well.Her style is highly feminized and full of integrity. Grittier than Morrison, but with the same taste for the spontaneous, Naylor writes enchantingly from start to finish, making any of her books hard to put down. "Mama Day" has become my favorite of her works. Granted, it is not entirely typical. Instead of being a piecemeal of viewpoints and stories, "Mama Day" reads as a more full and well-bodied text. The story here is a clever balance between a story of modern-day-woe and disillusionment and the magic of community and family. As well, this is a story about colonialism of the soul and acquisition of identity, a theme tough to tackle under any circumstance. Naylor, however, uses her easy-to-read prose and her glib-tongued characters to intrigue and entrap, writing the story around both reader and text. I cannot recommend this book highly enough!
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Summary: Mama Day
Review: I've been in love with Naylor's text since I randomly picked "Bailey's Cafe" off of the library shelves one August afternoon. Naylor's great gift is character development. Her characters are at once vividly realistic and too exotic to exist. She balances on a tightrope stretched between anecdote and the mythical, and does it admirably well. Her style is highly feminized and full of integrity. Grittier than Morrison, but with the same taste for the spontaneous, Naylor writes enchantingly from start to finish, making any of her books hard to put down. "Mama Day" has become my favorite of her works. Granted, it is not entirely typical. Instead of being a piecemeal of viewpoints and stories, "Mama Day" reads as a more full and well-bodied text. The story here is a clever balance between a story of modern-day-woe and disillusionment and the magic of community and family. As well, this is a story about colonialism of the soul and acquisition of identity, a theme tough to tackle under any circumstance. Naylor, however, uses her easy-to-read prose and her glib-tongued characters to intrigue and entrap, writing the story around both reader and text. I cannot recommend this book highly enough!
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Summary: All-Time Favorite!
Review: I've read a lot of books by the current crop of black authors but nothing has touched me and made me fall totally in love with a book like Mama Day. Like a lot of others said already, perhaps in different ways, this book was brilliant and I couldn't put it down until it was over. A good book is one of those books that you're actually sad when it's over. That was Mama Day for me. I have not read a book that comes close to it yet and I probably never will. If you have to read this book for school or a book club, I hope you enjoy it. If you want a book that is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED, this book is a MUST READ!
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Summary: An Old-Fashioned Modern-Day Romance
Review: If my review title doesn't intrigue you, I don't know what will. Mama day is an amazing love story, but on a different level than most. Gloria Naylor uses her normally powerful language to create a rich storyline that will captivate the readers. In Mama Day, she combines love, magic, superstition, and sacrifice all into one cohesive plot loaded with strong, well-developed, distinct characters. She brings modern day ideas to the traditional residents of the island of Willow Springs, which makes for interesting reading. This book brings together many extraordinary beliefs and instills the factors involved in having good stong family values. Mama Day is a wonderfully written book, mainly because you bond with the incredible characters all the way through to the amazing climax. You cannot go wrong with Gloria Naylor's Mama Day.
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Summary: More than you bargin for...
Review: If you want to be trite about it, Mama Day is a great novel with fabulous characters and imagination. If you like to write in the margins of your books, though, Mama Day is an ingenious re-interpretation of classic Shakespeare characters weaving their way through identity in a world that exists apart from natural forces. While addressing gender, race, and cultural issues, Naylor's narrative is a vehicle for self-examination and understanding. Naylor is brilliant!
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Summary: Spiritual, Enchanting, Mystical
Review: It has been a couple of years since the last time I read mamma day but I have read it three times and so has my mother. It gives you a since of pride in the ancestors. Mama Day was well respected and rightly so. This book exemplifies the power of women especially the women from African cultures. Every woman should have a godmother like Mama Day to consult with. This book is about the power of the ancestors and love.
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Summary: One of my favorites.
Review: It is raining in San Francisco and I just picked this book up to read again....for the fourth time. It feels like visiting an old friend: warm, comfortable and easy.
I lost too many people because of AIDS, one in particular. Thanks to this book I know Randy Garvin will ALWAYS look like love to me. If you read this story, you know what I mean.
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Summary: Amazing.
Review: Mama Day is a wonderful, powerful book. The people and places are described so vividly that at times it is difficult to remember that you aren't in Willow Springs with them, you are just reading a book about them. Intense and insightful, one of the best books I have ever read.
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