Mother of Pearl by Melinda Haynes Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Mother of Pearl
Book Review: GOOD FIRST NOVEL!
Summary: 4 Stars
I really liked this book, but found it difficult to get into at the beginning. It was quite confusing, but glad I continued to read it to the end....This novel is set in back country of Mississippi....The main characters are 18 yr old Valuable Korner and 28 yr old Evan Grade...These two characters are intertwined with many other great characters for a surprise ending which shows us a black man bringing up a white child...I don't think that would have happened in the deep south during the 1950's....However overall this was quite a powerful novel.Book Review: Keep reading!
Summary: 5 Stars
I had a hard time staying with the book at first because the slang used in the story was very much a southern, time dependent writing style; one that I was not accustomed to. But I'm very glad I stuck with it, because her writing style is wonderful. I loved that all the people that she wrote about were stars of her stories; and I do mean 'stories' and not 'story'. She gracefully fluctuated in between characters and made them real. I loved the way she brought these people to life and made them interesting, each in their own right. After a while I could hear them talking in my head as I read along, adapting to their southern accent and slang and understanding them. It would make a great movie if some talented producer wanted to give it a shot. Of course you always lose something in the translation when adapting to a movie plot.There were only a couple of puzzling items; her need to talk about a sow split up it's middle in various parts of the story; giving it wisdom at that, and her need to describe the color brown. I guess those things will remain a mystery to me. But please do read it; it is worth it!
Book Review: Mother of Pearl
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the kind of book you can relax into like a warm bath... There is magic woven into this story, and the characters continue floating into the reader's mind long after the book is finished. I liked Mother of Pearl SO much, I'm buying three more copies to send to my very best friends!Book Review: Mother of Pearl Review
Summary: 4 Stars
Mother of Pearl is not a novel you can forget. The author brings up issues that affect society and shows that with the help of those in their lives it creates who they are in the future. Mother of Pearl is about the struggles and issues of a small Southern town, whose people face racism, hiprocrisy, and hatred. But most importantly it shows how love and friendship can help those who suffer and who were alone realize their worth. That even though there are those who talk about you because you don't wear the right clothes or are the considered the town's whore,this novel shows that if we listen to those who judge us we will never appreciate life and waste our time worrying what they might say. In the novel a fourteen year old girl, who is the daughter of the town's whore, falls in love with her childhood friend Jackson. Both of them are friends, but their families are different. Even Grade, a thiry three year old black man, falls in love with Joody Two Son, a mixed race woman who the town thinks is crazy.Each one of these characters shows that no matter what we do it will not turn out perfect unless we make it perfect and strive for the positive side instead of the negative side. Although in the novel Even Grade loves Joody he is attracted to a beautiful black woman named Grace. This shows that although Even has the woman he loves there is still temptation towards another woman from his side that can cause unhappiness. The novel brings about many issues that people face. Mother of Pearl gives the reader hope and faith that things will turn out good.Maybe not now, but once it does we will realize that it was worth the wait.Mother of Pearl establishes a ground base of human life and that is why I give this novel four out of five stars because of its respect for human autonomy.
Book Review: PLOTLESS WONDER
Summary: 2 Stars
Reading this book seemed an excercize in futility. Although most of the Oprah books I've read have been decent this one seems to have no plot or purpose. I do believe the author has the potential to tell a good story if she would just find an interesting tale to tell. The characters in this book were sporadic and underdeveloped. Most of the time I had no clue as to what was going on, and I consider myself an avid reader. Maybe it's just me, but this book just didn't deliver. I wish her better luck on the next novel because I do believe she is a capable writer if only she could find the right story to tell.