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What I Read- The Underground Railroad

April 24, 2017 by Sharon

I’m usually a bit late to the party in terms of reading best sellers. I usually don’t jump and buy the latest book on the best sellers lists. What normally happens is that I start seeing a title in reviews that I read and lists that I receive. That happened this past year with the title The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead. I didn’t read it even when Oprah added it to her book club.

I finished a book and was searching my local library catalog on my Overdrive app when I saw that The Underground Railroad was available. I downloaded it and fell in love with the book while reading the first chapter.

The book tells the saga of a slave girl named Cora and her struggles as she tries to escape to freedom. The author puts a twist on the concept of a “railroad” by having a physical train and rail that carries slaves underground. I want to watch his interview with Oprah to hear his reasoning for this.

I was excited that while I was reading this book, the author won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction!!

This year marked the 40th anniversary of the mini-series, Roots. Dr. T recorded it and we binge watched it. I was 13 when it came out, and while I know my parents watched it, I don’t think I watched even one episode of it. We both loved it and with how polarized our country is today, I was able to have a better understanding of how divided the country was back then.

Watching the mini-series and reading this book–it was unnerving once again to realize how human beings have been treated in our country!! Although I have studied the antebellum era, it is always good for me to learn more to have a better understanding of how things really were. Our history isn’t pretty and at times is hard to digest, but I’m a huge believer in the adage that “those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.” I hope and pray that as a country we can continue to move forward and that some day the color of a person’s skin will not matter. I know we are not there yet, but it is a noble goal that through education can be accomplished. I truly believe that.

Although The Underground Railroad is a work of fiction– it is historical fiction, and I highly recommend it.

I will do a future post on using the Overdrive app if anyone is interested! 

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After her husband’s sudden and unexpected death, Sharon McCuistian found herself a widow at the age of 48. With two grown children in college, Sharon had to find a way to live in her new reality. She turned to the things she loved to help in her grief: faith, family, and friends. Her love of words and writing became the cathartic venue by which she began to process her loss. It is through her grief journey that Now Choose Life was born. Read More

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