Andrew ShieldsMar 19, 2025
A day with Ishiguro, Morrison, Dickens, and Joyce. #111Words #KazuoIshiguro #NeverLetMeGo #ToniMorrison #TheBluestEye #CharlesDickens #HardTimes #JamesJoyce #FinnegansWake #Novels #Fiction #Literature #CloseReading https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2025/03/a-day-with-ishiguro-morrison-dickens.html
A day with Ishiguro, Morrison, Dickens, and Joyce

My day: first Kazuo Ishiguro's "Never Let Me Go" (2005), "My name is Kathy H"; then, Toni Morrison's "The Bluest Eye" (1970), "The pieces of...

Andrew ShieldsMar 5, 2025
“Double consciousness” in Jordan Peele and Toni Morrison. #111Words #JordanPeele #GetOut #DanielKaluuya #ToniMorrison #TheBluestEye #ChollyBreedlove #WEBDuBois #TheSoulsOfBlackFolk #DoubleConsciousness #TheSunkenPlace https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2025/03/double-consciousness-in-jordan-peele.html
“Double consciousness” in Jordan Peele and Toni Morrison

In a class discussion this morning, we considered the concept of "the sunken place" in Jordan Peele's "Get Out" (2017), where, one student s...

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#Independent #Bookstore #Owners Share Favorite #BannedBooks, From #TheBluestEye to #TheGiver.

Local independent bookstores across the U.S. are #standingup against #Fascist #bookbans by encouraging #curiosity (and #reading, of course).

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #TheArts #Literature #Books #Reading #Representation #Culture

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/independent-bookstore-owners-share-favorite-banned-books

Independent Bookstore Owners Share Favorite Banned Books, From ‘The Bluest Eye’ to ‘The Giver’

It's banned books week, and local independent bookstores across the U.S. are standing up against book bans by encouraging curiosity (and reading, of course).

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Show thread(((Cindy Weinstein)))May 25, 2023
@Theorem_Poem. Hear hear! What did you just finish? Me? #TheBluestEye. Deciding what's next, and although it's difficult, there is the excitement of opening a new book or rereading an old and discovering something new! #bookstodon, #litstudies
Show thread(((Cindy Weinstein)))May 20, 2023
@owlislost @bookstodon. #Morrison, #TheBluestEye, #BannedBooks, #litstudies.
Show thread(((Cindy Weinstein)))May 19, 2023
@clairep. Yes, so many prizes! Such important and beautiful work/art. Psyched to be rereading #TheBluestEye, which I haven't read in a long time.
Mason Pelt dot comMay 18, 2023

Penguin Random House Suing Florida Over Book Bans

Penguin Random House, the publisher of The Bluest Eye, and other books that have been banned in Florida , is suing a school district in the state over Ron DeSantis’s book ban.

Penguin Random House and Florida parents sue school district over book bans

Penguin Random House, authors,

https://www.masonpelt.com/penguin-random-house-suing-florida-over-book-bans/

#books #Florida #JoYurcaba #NBCNews #PenguinRandomHouse #TheBluestEye

Penguin Random House Suing Florida Over Book Bans - Mason Pelt

Penguin Random House, the publisher of The Bluest Eye, and other books that have been banned in Florida , is suing a school district in the state over Ron DeSantis’s book ban. Penguin Random House and Florida parents sue school district over book bans RELATED  Most Marketing Books are Crap

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(((Cindy Weinstein)))Apr 23, 2023
Just thinking it was time to read #Morrison's #TheBluestEye once again. Thanks #Idaho! So many #bannedbooks to buy on 4.29, #IndieBookstoreDay.
(((Cindy Weinstein)))Apr 23, 2023
Just thinking it was time to read #Morrison's #TheBluestEye once again. Thanks #Idaho! #bannedbooks, #litstudies
Al RowellFeb 15, 2023
Pinellas, Florida, students, parents urge school board to reconsider book ban
Superintendent Kevin Hendrick defended the decision to remove Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye” from all schools, citing state law. #BannedBooks #books #TheBluestEye