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Let the Circle Be Unbroken
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sanguinity9. Mildred D. Taylor, Let the Circle Be Unbroken
Sequel to Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, another installment in the saga of the Logan family, set in 1930s Mississippi.
Hard to summarize the plot on this one -- Taylor's plots are many-armed and rambly. Is this book about TJ's trial? About the suspicious man who showed up in town? About the union? About *spoiler spoilering*? And the subplots -- the foreboding about Suzella, Wordell, Uncle Hammer -- would they get resolved? It wasn't until I was near the end of the book that I was able to guess which plotline Taylor considered the major one, and thus which plotlines might get wrapped up, and which wouldn't.
(For those who want the count: one did get wrapped up. Most didn't.)
However, neither this book nor Roll of Thunder is about wrapping up plotlines: these are installments in the continuing lives of the Logan family. As such, they're quite satisfying. I'm fine with waiting until Book 4 to find out what happens with *spoiler*, *spoiler*, and *spoiler*. And if Taylor doesn't tell me in Book 4, I'm sure she'll get around to it eventually.
As much as I'd like to see this set of storylines get dealt with, I think I'll back up and read the first book of the series (Song of the Trees),* before moving on to The Friendship.
( A few random observations: )
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* Lots of book-selling websites list Roll of Thunder as the first book, but every website that describes the saga itself and the plots of the various books is pretty clear about Song of the Trees being first.
Sequel to Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, another installment in the saga of the Logan family, set in 1930s Mississippi.
Hard to summarize the plot on this one -- Taylor's plots are many-armed and rambly. Is this book about TJ's trial? About the suspicious man who showed up in town? About the union? About *spoiler spoilering*? And the subplots -- the foreboding about Suzella, Wordell, Uncle Hammer -- would they get resolved? It wasn't until I was near the end of the book that I was able to guess which plotline Taylor considered the major one, and thus which plotlines might get wrapped up, and which wouldn't.
(For those who want the count: one did get wrapped up. Most didn't.)
However, neither this book nor Roll of Thunder is about wrapping up plotlines: these are installments in the continuing lives of the Logan family. As such, they're quite satisfying. I'm fine with waiting until Book 4 to find out what happens with *spoiler*, *spoiler*, and *spoiler*. And if Taylor doesn't tell me in Book 4, I'm sure she'll get around to it eventually.
As much as I'd like to see this set of storylines get dealt with, I think I'll back up and read the first book of the series (Song of the Trees),* before moving on to The Friendship.
( A few random observations: )
---
* Lots of book-selling websites list Roll of Thunder as the first book, but every website that describes the saga itself and the plots of the various books is pretty clear about Song of the Trees being first.
