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Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature by Farah Jasmine Griffin
dinasamimi's review against another edition
5.0
Excellent journey through Black life and literature. Griffin's story is interspersed throughout -- it's a story of inheritance and incredibly moving. The literary criticism is A+ and will expand your reading life in beautiful ways.
bearprof's review
5.0
A beautiful book for anyone who loves to read, who loves to think about their reading and make connections with other things they've read, and for whom re-reading evokes precious memories.
mkylm's review
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
I really liked the book. Part memoir and part review of Black literary works. None of the books discussed weren't well known already, but her perspective on how they overlapped with real life was beautiful.
danyeldantzler's review
4.0
this is a good book for individuals that want a bite-sized introduction to some of the great works of black literature and how it folded on top of each other into where we are now, its relation to black culture, and the importance of language in literary work. i personally felt like the memoir-like style of the book never really focused on her, but mostly her dad and then her mom. i can attest that i am now more interested in reading more of the classics as i often avoid them due to not wanting to consume the accounts/fiction of rage, death, and unhappiness. i think i enjoyed the ending of the book more than the beginning, it really blossomed beautifully by that point; however very slowburn of a start in my opinion.