The Wake of the Wind

**seemiyah** · 01-31-2008, 08:18 PM

Re: The Wake of the Wind

So Boopie dem wouldn't let you renew it, yu pay whola $5 wortha fine!! [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/eek2.gif[/img] Anyway it was a good book, even though I like her short stories, I rate the two novels she has written higher as they really grab and keep you. I like how she doles out the suffering and joys so that even though the topic is depressing and so many things upset you in it she gives you something/people to root for.

**Boopie2** · 01-31-2008, 08:43 PM

Re: The Wake of the Wind

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: seemiyah</div><div class="ubbcode-body">So Boopie dem wouldn't let you renew it, yu pay whola $5 wortha fine!! [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/eek2.gif[/img] Anyway it was a good book, even though I like her short stories, I rate the two novels she has written higher as they really grab and keep you. I like how she doles out the suffering and joys so that even though the topic is depressing and so many things upset you in it she gives you something/people to root for. </div></div>

They let me renew it twice, [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/704555_dwl.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/704555_dwl.gif[/img] it was my fault when I get a good book I don't want it to end so I read a little bit at a time. [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/70394-bawlout.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/70394-bawlout.gif[/img] Then I didn't want anything else bad to happen. [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/70394-bawlout.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/70394-bawlout.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/70394-bawlout.gif[/img]

Cooper's disappointing third novel (after Family) frustrates readers with a good premise poorly executed. Mordecai and Lifee meet as slaves on a plantation in post-Civil War Texas. Forced to marry by their master before they even know each other, they fall in love just as emancipation is declared, and head east with several other newly freed companions to look for a safe place to live. Cooper conveys the mixture of hope, fear and confusion as hungry and footsore former slaves move across the country. Mor and Lifee find work at a ruined plantation in Georgia and begin a family; and in time, the owner secretly sells her property to them. The tightly knit clan of former slaves prospers, but when lynchings in the area become frequent, they are forced to leave. Eventually they settle on an abandoned farm, where they survive economic depression and other troubles. When tragedy ensues, the next generation must assume responsibility for preserving the family. Though Cooper's research about the troubled historical era provides good details, her characters are mainly two-dimensional stereotypes. The blacks are good, with pure hearts; the whites (with one exception) are duplicitous. Moreover, the prose is wooden and preachy, lacking grace or nuance. This earnest saga of freed slaves aspiring to new lives in the Reconstruction South is commendable in intent but pedestrian in execution.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title

[img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/mad2.gif[/img] I love all of her writings. [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/70371-jump.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/70371-jump.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/70371-jump.gif[/img]

**seemiyah** · 01-31-2008, 08:58 PM

Re: The Wake of the Wind

Who say dat? Dem people a eediat and don't know a good book when they read it. Some people think that for a book to be good it have to be high brow and hard to follow I like a straightforward book that is compelling and holds your interest, this book did both.

**Boopie2** · 02-01-2008, 09:57 AM

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You're right have you read any of Beatrice Berry"s books? She reminds m of California Cooper so much. [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/breakdance.gif[/img]

**seemiyah** · 02-01-2008, 12:43 PM

Re: The Wake of the Wind

Yes - When love calls you better answer - excellent! I bought it for a friend after I read it and she has since loaned it out to many women.

**Boopie2** · 02-01-2008, 08:27 PM

Re: The Wake of the Wind

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: seemiyah</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Yes - When love calls you better answer - excellent! I bought it for a friend after I read it and she has since loaned it out to many women. </div></div>

That's right we spoke about it earlier, I bought this one from Amazon.com I loved it just as much as When love calls. [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/70371-jump.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/70371-jump.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/70371-jump.gif[/img]

Jim and Louella's Homemade Heart-fix Remedy
Bertice Berry

Redemption Song: A Novel was pretty good too, but Jim and Louella's book had me laughing so much, a good story. [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/blushing2.gif[/img]

The Wake of the Wind

The Wake of the Wind

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