2010 Reading #88: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

[snurri]

Books 1-10.
Books 11-20.
Books 21-30.
Books 31-40.
Books 41-50.
Books 51-60.
Books 61-70.
Books 71-80.
81. The Dakota Indian Internment at Fort Snelling, 1862-1864 by Corinne L. Monjeau-Marz.
82. A Life on Paper: Selected Stories by Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud, translated by Edward Gauvin.
83. The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith.
84. Best American Fantasy, edited by Ann Vandermeer, Jeff Vandermeer, and Matthew Cheney.
85. It Walks in Beauty: Selected Prose of Chandler Davis, Edited and with an Introduction by Josh Lukin.
86. All Flesh Is Grass by Clifford D. Simak.
87. The Word for World Is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin.

88. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou. This is one of those books that I feel sort of silly commenting on, given how influential and important it is. But here we go. There are some moving episodes here, but I felt the book as a whole lacked structure, which tempered my appreciation of it; if it had been presented as a series of essays (and a few sections had been edited out) I think I would have liked it more. But that's where I start to feel silly, so I'll just shut up now.

Comments

[dustchick.livejournal.com]

This book led me to look up "Sympathy", the poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar that the title comes from. I'll always be grateful for that introduction.