#theireyeswerewatchinggod

[trascapades]

📚#ArtIsAWeapon Remembering author, anthropologist, southern Black life storyteller, trailblazer #ZoraNealeHurston, who was born January 7, 1891.

#ZoraNealeHurstonDay

📷 photograph by #CarlVanVechten .

Caption and images reposted from @thefreeblackwomenslibrary It’s Zora Neale Hurston Day ⭐️🖤⭐️

Are you familiar with the life and writing of this legendary free thinking world traveling rule breaking culture defining Black woman icon?

Which one of her novels have you read and enjoyed?

Today we celebrate the birth of a chosen ancestor, spirit guide and muse of The Free Black Women’s Library, also a quintessential Capricorn and role model for Black girl scholars researchers historians anthropologists story tellers and mean muggers world wide!!

Cheers to the goat!!

🖤🖤🖤 🎂🎂🎂🐐🐐🐐🥂🥂🥂

BTW!!!

for those doing The Free Black Women’s Library Reading Challenge feel free to read

THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD for - a book where the characters speak Geechee, Gullah, Creole, patois or AAVE

BARRACOON - a book of history , historical fiction or slave narrative

HITTING A STRAIGHT LICK WITH A CROOKED STICK - collection of stories, poems, letters or prose

DUST TRACKS ON THE ROAD - a memoir

#zoranealehurston

#freeblackwoman

#TFBWL

#tfbwlreads

#tfbwlreadingchallenge

#thefreeblackwomenslibrary #TheirEyesWereWatchingGod #Barracoon #FreeBlackWomensLibrary #HarlemRenaissance #BlackWomenAuthors #BlackGenius

[booklalaland]

I forgot to post my July book haul so here it is. #abladesoblack #johnhenrydays #wakenhyrst #thediviners #bonelessmercies #slashergirlsandmonsterboys #winkpoppymidnight #lightbringer #thenightcircus #downcomesthenight #promisedland #thestarsneverrise #blackout #jadecity #deathlessdivide #empireofsand #thejasminethrone #thebelles #theireyeswerewatchinggod #hisdarkmaterials #bookhaul #bookstagram #llmckinney #colsonwhitehead #libbabray #aprilgenevievetucholke #clairelegrand #erinmorgenstern #barackobama #justinaireland https://www.instagram.com/p/CTAmdQ1rvIc/?utm_medium=tumblr

[kindafitcass]

First book of August done! ✅ . Switched it up rather than sticking to my usual genre with this one! . Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston . This was a beautiful love story about not settling for less than you deserve and overcoming obstacles. . . #booksof2020 #2020goals #readmorebooks #theireyeswerewatchinggod #zoranealehurston #kindafit https://www.instagram.com/p/CDwXQ-ohEw95qjTb5VsR3WTKGsXMa7SdTfabew0/?igshid=11kmw1cxjcjvs

[bibliobethblog]

Hello everyone and happy Monday! It’s #alphastack time again thanks to the lovely creator @puellalegit and today I’m showcasing ten books beginning with T:⁣ ⁣ The Talisman - Stephen King and Peter Straub⁣ The Toll - Neal Shusterman ⁣ Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston⁣ The Terrible - Yrsa Daley-Ward⁣ Topics About Which I Know Nothing - Patrick Ness⁣ The Trials Of Morrigan Crow (Nevermoor) - Jessica Townsend⁣ Truly Madly Guilty - Liane Moriarty⁣ Tess Of The D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy⁣ Throne Of Glass - Sarah J. Maas⁣ Three Martini Lunch - Suzanne Rindell⁣ ⁣ I haven’t done too badly with this stack! I’ve read The Talisman, Tess, Throne Of Glass and Three Martini Lunch and I have The Toll, The Terrible and Their Eyes Were Watching God earmarked to read very soon.⁣ ⁣ As always I’d love to know if you’ve read or are interested in reading any of the books on this stack. Let me know below in the comments. Have a lovely week everyone! 🤗😘⁣ ⁣ #bookstagram #booklover #bookworm #bookstagrammer #bookstagramchallenge #thetalisman #peterstraub #stephenking #thetoll #nealshusterman #theireyeswerewatchinggod #zoranealehurston #theterrible #yrsadaleyward #topicsaboutwhichiknownothing #patrickness #nevermoorthetrialsofmorrigancrow #jessicatownsend #trulymadlyguilty #lianemoriarty #tessofthedurbervilles #thomashardy #throneofglass #sarahjmaas #threemartinilunch #suzannerindell https://www.instagram.com/p/CGQIi2VAxR0/?igshid=lndveh7r3ymb

[thebookbud]

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Book Review

By Zora Neale Hurston

Finished 09-13-2019

Genre: Classic Historical Fiction

Basic Plot: Janie is becoming a woman and looking to meet the man of dreams. Someone to really meet her ideals of love. 

WARNING: This is an UNPOPULAR OPINION review. I’m aware, I’m willing to debate in a healthy manner but will not tolerate hate. This is my OPINION. If you don’t view it the same, getting malicious will not help change my mind. But I am open to the possibility of a well versed argument.

I would like to start this by saying, I'm biased. I had to read this for my college class and I am personally so tired of old school stories that do not hold up to today's standard of writing. By that I mean, not necessarily a writing style but instead the ideals that come through in present day novels. If this is still viewed as an empowerment story, I think we have all of our ideals mixed up. This is a love story, pure and simple. Janie is never satisfied until she meets Tea Cake and then, she is constantly at his whims. Janie flits from marriage to marriage in search of this childhood dream of what love is instead of actually doing something about her rough relationships to make them something more resembling this need for love. Before Tea Cake makes an appearance, she abandons the first husband because she didn’t want to work with him on his land and while benefiting financially on the second, she dealt with his abuse and demanding control for twenty years, while just waiting for him to die. Janie's actions make her seem weak and vapid. Even Tea Cake, who's supposed to be her optimal love interest, he leaves her the first night they're together and spends all her money. Sure he comes back but it's not a good display of a healthy ideal of love or independence on her part considering the whole time he is gone, she just sits in her room and waits for his return while contemplating the possibility she was just being used by him for her money. It seems she and the men she got wrapped up with only care about what they can do for one another, not the actual ideal of love this author wanted to promote through care for one another. There’s no unconditionality from either side of these marriages and it would appear to the readers that even though this is in a time of post slavery and freedom, Janie finds herself caged by the men she gives her life to. It was depressing really and I don't think this is a wholesome story in any way and really has no beneficial themes to today’s ideals of empowerment and individuality. 

Honestly, I gave it a 1 out of 5 stars. I don’t agree with the way people tend to view this book, even if you date it to when it was written. I find it to have very dark ideologies of what an equal and healthy partnership should be and it appears that while Janie struggles with all of these marriages, she is viewed as property and she seems to just deal with that fact instead of giving the reader a model of powered femininity during a time of new freedoms. It made her character unbelievable, and gave her a weak appearance of a woman who is complacent to just do as she’s told even when it obviously bothers her. You can say all you want that Janie wanted to be independent but she never pursued it. She was always after love and this book maintained some deeply codependent vibes. 

[fluerility]

—08.30.19

This book is both easier and harder to read than I thought like the dialect is pretty easy to pick up on but analyzing it is like 😐😐

[rosefire11]

"She often spoke to the falling seeds and said 'ah hope you fall on soft ground,' because she often heard them saying that to each other as they passed. She knew the world was a stallion rolling in the blue pasture of ether. She knew that God tore down the old world every evening and built a new one by sun-up."

— Their Eyes Were Watching God

[lostinsunnywords]

Six eyes were questioning god...

Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

[moosj-posts]

Their Eyes Were Watching God (2005)

Their Eyes Were Watching God (2005)

[trascapades]

📚#ArtIsAWeapon Remembering author, anthropologist, southern Black life storyteller #ZoraNealeHurston, who was #bornonthisday - January 7 - in 1891.

#ZoraNealeHurstonDay

Reposted from @thefreeblackwomenslibrary It’s Zora Neale Hurston Day ⭐️🖤⭐️

Are you familiar with the life and writing of this legendary free thinking world traveling rule breaking culture defining Black woman icon?

Which one of her novels have you read and enjoyed?

Today we celebrate the birth of a chosen ancestor, spirit guide and muse of The Free Black Women’s Library, also a quintessential Capricorn and role model for Black girl scholars researchers historians anthropologists story tellers and mean muggers world wide!!

Cheers to the goat!!

🖤🖤🖤 🎂🎂🎂🐐🐐🐐

BTW!!!

for those doing The Free Black Women’s Library Reading Challenge feel free to read

THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD for - a book where the characters speak geechee, Gullah, Creole, patois or AAVE

BARRACOON - a book about slavery, historical fiction or slave narrative

HITTING A STRAIGHT LICK WITH A CROOKED STICK - collection of stories, poems, letters or prose

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📷 Image 1 photograph by #CarlVanVechten.

#TheirEyesWereWatchingGod #Barracoon #FreeBlackWomensLibrary #HarlemRenaissance #BlackWomenAuthors #BlackGenius

[booksnbobbins]

 Happy #AfricanAmericanhistoryMonth! What #africanamericanhistory #bookshelfbucketlist picks are on you're reading list this month?! (Listed left to right) #invisibleman #ralphwaldoemerson #theireyeswerewatchinggod #zoranealehurston #morethenanythingelse #mariebradby #blacklikeme johnhowardgriffin #beloved  #tonimorrison #claraandthefreedomquilt #DeborahHopkinson #HiddenInPlainView #jacquelineltobin #raymondgdobard (continued in comments) https://www.instagram.com/p/CKxQoAaHhkU/?igshid=1mbapryq99iwm

[coupleofbeesread]

It’s #firstlinesfriday 🤗🎊 How to play: -Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to the first page -Copy the first few lines, but don’t give anything else about the book away just yet – you need to hook the reader first -Finally… reveal the book! So, who can guess the author of my favorite opening lines of all time? 👀 Read the text above and give your best guess... Times up! It’s #zoranealehurston ‘s famous first lines from #theireyeswerewatchinggod 📖❤️🐝 What are your favorite first lines? #harlemrenaissance #americanauthors #books #bookstagram #book #reading #booklover #bookworm #bookstagrammer #read #bookish #booknerd #bookaddict #booksofinstagram #bookshelf #bookaholic #reader #booklove #instabooks #booksbooksbooks #literature #readersofinstagram #booklovers #bookblogger #writer #goodreads #instagood https://www.instagram.com/p/CIrYWg8A5in/?igshid=hjiprs6ci1ns

[bibliobethblog]

Hello everyone! Hope your week is going well. Today I’m sharing a very special post to celebrate all things @feministbookbox I signed up for a three month subscription and received my first box recently. I was delighted! We have a pamphlet on the right introducing the box and the authors. Then there was a gorgeous surprise of a Valley Of The Dolls notebook. The art print you see on the bottom left is by @hollydrawsinink and is stunning. Finally the books. We have a beautiful edition of Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston and a non fiction book - A Woman Of No Importance by Sonia Purcell which follows Virginia Hall, WW2’s most dangerous spy! The Feminist Book Box has definitely exceeded my expectations and I already can’t wait for the next one. Look at that gorgeous quote from Maya Angelou on the inside of the box too. 😍 With your subscription you also receive access to an exclusive event with one of the authors featured in each box! Can’t wait for that. I’m also going to be doing a giveaway of my old unread edition of Their Eyes Were Watching God as I prefer the edition in this box 😂 so watch this space if you’ve never read it and fancy winning. Thank you so much to everyone involved in the creation of this box. It’s definitely something special! #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #booklover #booksubscriptionbox #thefeministbookbox #feminism #feministquotes #feministbooks #theireyeswerewatchinggod #zoranealehurston #awomanofnoimportance #soniapurnell #beautifulnotebooks #whataluckygirl #girlpower https://www.instagram.com/p/CMiGiB1rt7b/?igshid=138ig96wpid9a

[adiamondsrae]

✨🖤✨ Congratulations to #KellyRowland on her second child ! She looks so beautiful! Absolutely stunning ✨😍🖤🥰✨👑✨ Black Are Woman Magical ✨😍🤩✨ ✨🖤🤩✨Films Directed By Black Female Directors ✨🖤🤩✨ ✨#EvesBayou ✨#Pariah ✨#Selma ✨#TheirEyesWereWatchingGod ✨#LifeIsNotAFairytale ✨#NightCatchesUS ✨#DaughtersOfTheDust ✨🖤✨ Jay Ellis from the hit HBO series @insecurehbo by the talented @issarae (her growing empire is phenomenal ), is producing the upcoming Horror film #BlackBox by his company #BlackBarMitzvah . Breaking typical standards of the Hollywood industry and spicing up Horror with game changers like mixing Black Culture/Diversity with the world of Horror ! YASSS PLEASEEE ✨🖤🤩✨ Sent By ✨🖤✨CreepSKWAD Member & Friend ✨🖤✨ @kinga.the.hill has recommended the brilliant and inspiring Black films called Miss.Juneteenth and the film Rocks on Netflix . ✨✨The film 335 recommended to me by my Sent By ✨🖤✨My CreepSKWAD King & My Pumpkin Other Half ✨🖤✨ looks like a bad ass powerful feminine empowering film 🎞 it’s like Charlie’s Angels in the 2000’s BUT BETTER...this is what the revamp of Charlie’s Angels should of been . ✨A 1408 sequel is in talks and I LOVE THAT MINDFUCK of a film . Shutter Island came close to that level of a midfuck but I’d pick 1408 over Shutter Island...classic film ✨💯✨ ✨✨If anyone is in L.A. they are having Drive Inn Dates at the LA Zoo. Just wanted to make sure y’all knew about it ✨🖤✨ https://www.instagram.com/p/CGE_OAJlOMS/?igshid=1sgbqlin9ws8t

[eating-their-words]

My #septemberwrapup ~ 1) 🇨🇺 #theblackcathedral #marcialgala 4/5 2) 🇬🇧 #silasmarner #georgeeliot (reread) 4.5/5 3) 🇺🇸 #shitactually #lindywest (audiobook) 4.5/5 4) 🇺🇸 #amercy #tonimorrison 4.5/5 5) 🇯🇵 #anartistofthefloatingworld #kazuoishiguro 3/5 6) 🇨🇦 #thepullofthestars #emmadonoghue (audiobook) 4/5 7) 🇺🇸 #tinkers #paulharding 3/5 8) 🇺🇸 #theireyeswerewatchinggod #zoranealehurston (reread) 5/5 9) 🇬🇭🇺🇸 #transcendentkingdom #yaagyasi (audiobook) 3/5 10) 🇺🇸 #thetimetravelerswife #audreyniffenegger 3.5/5 11) 🇮🇹 #canti #giacomoleopardi 4/5 https://www.instagram.com/p/CFwf_xnKYFu/?igshid=1i2eh9114h10i

[generallygothic]

"𝕾𝖍𝖊 𝖍𝖆𝖉 𝖌𝖎𝖛𝖊𝖓 𝖆𝖜𝖆𝖞 𝖊𝖛𝖊𝖗𝖞𝖙𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖎𝖓 𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖎𝖗 𝖑𝖎𝖙𝖙𝖑𝖊 𝖍𝖔𝖚𝖘𝖊 𝖊𝖝𝖈𝖊𝖕𝖙 𝖆 𝖕𝖆𝖈𝖐𝖆𝖌𝖊 𝖔𝖋 𝖌𝖆𝖗𝖉𝖊𝖓 𝖘𝖊𝖊𝖉 𝖙𝖍𝖆𝖙 𝕿𝖊𝖆 𝕮𝖆𝖐𝖊 𝖍𝖆𝖉 𝖇𝖔𝖚𝖌𝖍𝖙 𝖙𝖔 𝖕𝖑𝖆𝖓𝖙." - Zora Neale Hurston 🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷 Consider this part 2 to yesterday's more broad response to Zora Neale Hurston's 1937 novel 'Their Eyes Were Watching God' because, as I mentioned in stories yesterday, I can't move on from this novel without a more spoilery deep-dive! The house has been a recurring space this month, present across the Southern Gothic literature that I have explored thus far, and it is no less pivotal in 'Their Eyes...' The narrative is framed equally by Janie and by Nanny's house. Janie's journey is circular, and the chapters of her life can be defined by the buildings at their centre. There are too many to discuss here (I tried & I can't fit it all in), so I'll explore the various houses and homes more thoroughly on the blog (tomorrow 🤞), but 'til then: 🤔: If you've read the novel, which was your favourite section and home of Janie's life? If you've not, which is your favourite fictional house? 🕷 ☝️Don't Forget 📖The Readalong: Week 3📖 Exploring the the impact of the Civil War in 'A Rose for Emily', by William Faulkner (1930). This Friday. Are you in? Let me know below! 🥀 🔗: PDF in bio. . #zoranealehurston #theireyeswerewatchinggod #americanliterature #africanamericanliterature #feministliterature #southerngothic #americangothic #southernliterature #blackwriters #hauntedhouse #house #gothichouse #gothicarchitecture #home #gothicspaces #poeticsofspace #books #bookstagram #bookreview #bookblogger #readalong #bookclub #aroseforemily #williamfaulkner #faulkner https://www.instagram.com/p/CC9d_SoAM5X/?igshid=1dlhiogax9piv