Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism

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Summary: great and touching, it makes you want to change the world!
Review: i love alice walker, but i didn't get what i expected out of this book. i got more. it was so interesting, i read it in a day, causing people to ask me if i had something "due" (i'm a college student) soon. she's involved in some of the same issues that are important to me, including female genital mutilation. she presents the issues clearly and fairly, and gives her opinions on them. she also includes a theory of hers which i found so amazing i could not stop thinking about it for days on end (involving "mammy" dolls and marilyn monroe). i would recommend this book to anyone, but especially women. also, this book includes two of my favorite walker poems, "be nobody's darling" and "never offer your heart to someone who eats hearts", which i thought of as an added bonus.

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Summary: i didn't really like this book
Review: I thought that this book was very harsh and critical of some groups of people. I thought that it was quite insulting to men and whites. I thought it was well writtten, and i loved the first couple sections about Walker's ideas of activism rooted in love, but i found that as the book progressed it seemed to become more of a praise of certain kinds of people rather than praising all people and loving all people like it was claimed earlier in the book. Overall, Walker had good ideas, I just found that sometime they were expressed in a manner of insult.

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Summary: i didn't really like this book
Review: I thought that this book was very harsh and critical of some groups of people. I thought that it was quite insulting to men and whites. I thought it was well writtten, and i loved the first couple sections about Walker's ideas of activism rooted in love, but i found that as the book progressed it seemed to become more of a praise of certain kinds of people rather than praising all people and loving all people like it was claimed earlier in the book. Overall, Walker had good ideas, I just found that sometime they were expressed in a manner of insult.

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Summary: I am so excited and I want my daughter to feel it, too.
Review: That is how I feel about Alice Walker's book. I read it everyday on my lunch hour and I marked passages that were important to me. I want my daughter to read this book. One day her boyfriend got mad at her because she did not know what happened in the civil war. She knows thousands of other things - for example, she wants to spend part of her life trying to help AIDS babies - she just did not know why that was so important to her boyfriend. He has lived a different view of life than she has and I think that seeing things through Alice's eyes, the black experience for want of a better way of expressing what I am trying to say, will help her see and understand. I know what it is to be a woman and to feel the many things that I have felt in my life that have beat me down but I don't know it from Alice's perspective and I see things in such new ways after reading her book. I found her in an Anthropology class when I read Possessing the Secret of Joy....I was 48 then and I did not know there was such a thing as genital mutilation. I could not get over the horror of it. I read it, bought a hard copy, and also purchased warrior marks. I admire her work so much. She and Frida Kahlo are the top women on my list of women to hear. Don't miss this book!!

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Summary: Absolutely breath-taking and true!
Review: This book of short stories, letters, and poems captures the soul and hear of its readers. I read the letter to President Clinton over and over. I first heard this letter read by Ms. Walker at a speech she gave at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, and I was deeply moved. One does not realize the affects of the embargo against Cuba until reading this moving piece. I can hear her words over and over each time I read it. Also, her poems are always a MUST! This book is simply a classic that can be read for years to come!

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Summary: Absolutely breath-taking and true!
Review: This book of short stories, letters, and poems captures the soul and hear of its readers. I read the letter to President Clinton over and over. I first heard this letter read by Ms. Walker at a speech she gave at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, and I was deeply moved. One does not realize the affects of the embargo against Cuba until reading this moving piece. I can hear her words over and over each time I read it. Also, her poems are always a MUST! This book is simply a classic that can be read for years to come!

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Summary: Thought Provoking
Review: This is a very interesting book. One of the things that I enjoy most about Walker's writing is her ability to convey her perspective of the world. I esspecially liked the first two essay's, and the essay on her cat. I don't agree with absolutly all of Walker's points (Though I do agree with most of them), but this does nothing to undermine the power of the book. The book is sub-titled "A Writer's Activism" and it left me thinking about the place of activism in my own life. I would certainly recommend this book to anyone with an open mind, especially when read in conjunction with Walker's book of short stories, "You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down".

Rating:
Summary: Thought Provoking
Review: This is a very interesting book. One of the things that I enjoy most about Walker's writing is her ability to convey her perspective of the world. I esspecially liked the first two essay's, and the essay on her cat. I don't agree with absolutly all of Walker's points (Though I do agree with most of them), but this does nothing to undermine the power of the book. The book is sub-titled "A Writer's Activism" and it left me thinking about the place of activism in my own life. I would certainly recommend this book to anyone with an open mind, especially when read in conjunction with Walker's book of short stories, "You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down".