Victor Pastor Pastor itibaren Texas itibaren Texas

I feel woefully inadequate to even attempt to review Toni Morrison. Another powerful masterpiece. Not an easy read, and full of disturbing images, yet so compelling that I could not put it down. Her writing is truly a gift--the way she takes words from the English language and creates so much more than simply phrases, sentences, paragraphs, chapters, a book, it is beyond anything I can describe.

The Long Fall by Walter Mosley introduces a new PI named Leonid McGill. A little background on McGill: He is African-American, average height, a boxer in a previous life, the son of a communist, married to a woman who had children by other men during their marriage and used to take on unscrupulous jobs if paid the right price. With all that said, McGill is trying to make up for his past by taking jobs that won’t ruin the lives of others. But sometimes getting out of the life is hard to do. Mosley weaved together a great story of personal redemption while maintaining an excellent mystery. McGill, with all his flaws, is a likable character that you want to see succeed. By using his experience as a former boxer and using his own interpretation of what his communist father was trying to teach him as a child, McGill fights his way through several dangerous scraps and uses insight that is uncommon in most mystery novels.

Very interesting and well written- another non-fiction that feels like fiction. It gives you a peak into the lives of all kinds of people in Savannah, from the very upper crust of society to voodoo priestesses and drag queen performers, while all the while following a murder case.