Tag Archives: Ralph Ellison

Top Ten Tuesday: The Ten Best Books I’ve Read So Far This Year

May 15, 2012

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Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s Top Ten Tuesday was originally supposed to be “Top Ten Authors I’d Like To See On A Reality Show,” but then some feedback about its difficulty made Jamie give us a Freebie Week, as well. Thank goodness, because–and […]

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Book Review: Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

January 27, 2012

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Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison Fiction Vintage, 1995 Paperback 608 pages Invisible Man, written by Ralph Waldo Ellison and first published in 1952, is a book about oppression and prejudice and their effects on the minds of both the victims and the perpetrators. It is a book about what happens to a person’s individuality in […]

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November’s Autumn Classics Challenge: Ralph Ellison

January 9, 2012

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January’s prompt for the November’s Autumn Classics Challenge comes with choices, depending on how far I am in the book. This month I am reading Invisible Man, written by Ralph Ellison over the span of seven years and finally published in 1952. It won the National Book Award in 1953. I just started reading this […]

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