This book should be required reading for every high school or college student. I highly recommend this book for every reader that wants to confront themselves and learn more about experiences outside their own. Forget the science fiction categorizatio...  Read More

Octavia butler’s kindred is a life-changing read. Set in both 1976 & the early 1800s, kindred joins the present and the past as our protagonist tries to understand what keeps drawing her into the past.

The descriptions of the slaves' punishments are difficult and soul-searing. People today “know” people were enslaved but this book showed how a person of today would have to adjust to live to survive.

Rufus weylin is the only son of a * owner in maryland. Dana soon discovers that her life is tethered to this boy.

Dana's life becomes a seesaw going back and forth between the past and the present. On her last return to 1976, dana's arm materializes within her apartment wall.

It sounds like an interesting premise, but i had to stop reading on page 150 and skim through it. The characters aren't likable at all, except for a few of the slaves. Seems like it was written by a middle schooler.

Black people who are into topics dominated by eurocentric ideals often align themselves with those dominating beliefs. In this case, it means we get sympathetic * masters, hipster racist white husbands not being challenged, and people marveling that t...  Read More