lizziethereader: Weekly Bookish Question #283 (May 1st - May 7th):Tell me about a recent book you&rs

lizziethereader: Weekly Bookish Question #283 (May 1st - May 7th):Tell me about a recent book you’ve read that was genuinely surprising in some way (can be good, bad, or neither)! That’s going to have to be Kyle Baker’s Nat Turner. I had never heard of Nat Turner before nor his insurrection. Everything about the book was surprising: the color choice, the minimal text used, what the text was, what Nat Turner did, who Nat Turner truly was, the aftermath of his insurrection, who all was killed, etc.It was by far the most grim slave narrative I’ve encountered and the only one I’ve read where I wasn’t sympathetic to the slave. He was a horrible human being, delusional at best, and he has lives on his head—so much blood on his hands, most of it innocent. Utterly unfathomable. I was also surprised to learn it occurred not far from where I now live, so it’s a bit of harrowing local history. I ended up talking about that book for over a week and it took the entire second half of the semester to fully digest enough to just be able to do the homework. It’s an amazing book and I highly recommend, it’s one of only two books this semester I rated 5/5. The book is phenomenal, the man it is about was deplorable. -- source link

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