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Summary: Now is the time to pick up this book!
Review: Alice Walker has done it again. She has created a deeply rich world full of amazing characters that you hate to leave when the book is finished. Unlike most of her other works, this book has an extremely modern feel to it. It takes place in the present, and although it happens mostly in the jungles, it still feels like home.Kate, the main character inspired by Walker's grandmother, channels a lot of Walkers feelings about the world today, and growing older. In the past, I've always felt the ancestors in Walker's work, but never much of herself. This book combines the two elements beautifully. Do yourself a favor and big pick up this remarkable book, by one of the greatest voices of our time.
Rating:
Summary: Now is the time to pick up this book!
Review: Alice Walker has done it again. She has created a deeply rich world full of amazing characters that you hate to leave when the book is finished. Unlike most of her other works, this book has an extremely modern feel to it. It takes place in the present, and although it happens mostly in the jungles, it still feels like home. Kate, the main character inspired by Walker's grandmother, channels a lot of Walkers feelings about the world today, and growing older. In the past, I've always felt the ancestors in Walker's work, but never much of herself. This book combines the two elements beautifully. Do yourself a favor and big pick up this remarkable book, by one of the greatest voices of our time.
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Summary: Following your heart
Review: I fully enjoyed following the journeys of Kate and Yolo while they were figuring out their place in this world, as we all are. This is the first book I have read by Alice Walker, and she is to be commended for writing an inspiring novel. This is a wonderful book for those of us who are "soul searching." I would recommend it to anyone who is contemplating or starting out on their own spiritual journey.
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Summary: Classic Walker!
Review: Kate Nelson is a writer with many books under her belt. She feels that she can no longer find a purpose in life, she feels she has lost direction and she is not sure if it is the end for her and her lover Yolo.
Plagued with dreams about rivers Kate sets off on a journey rafting down the Colorado River and then to a retreat in the Amazon RainForest. Her lover Yolo sets out on his own journey to Haawii where he runs into an old lover and Yolo too is unsure if it is the end for him and Kate. As a fan of Alice Walker I was pleased with this latest novel. I enjoyed the spiritual journey with Kate, the people she met and the whole walking with the ancestors feel. This spiritual journey to one's self discovery is a classic by Walker. Kate was named after Walker's paternal Grandmother, who was killed when her father was a young boy.
reviewed by:
Dawn
Mahogany Albany, N.Y. 2004
Rating: 
Summary: Not Nearly Her Best
Review: REVIEW
NOW IS THE TIME
I usually love anything by Alice Walker, but this book bored me.
I kept falling asleep trying to get into it. I took it back to the library after only making it to page 87.
I wanted to like it, but I recommend any one of her other books in place of this one. It's too dry.
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Summary: PURE ALICE
Review: This is a good novel if you're already a big Alice Walker fan and are "familiar" with her philosophy about life. Because I've been reading her for years, I thoroughly enjoyed this one. Something more groundbreaking and really fantastic to pick up is the new novel by Walker-wannabe Kola Boof. Her "Flesh and the Devil" is powerful, cutting edge and daring like Alice Walker and Toni Morrison's earlier works. I highly recommend that book in addition to this one. The new one from Barbara Chase-Riboud "Hottentot Venus" was even better. That one deserves the pulitzer prize, but I was also really impressed by "Flesh and the Devil". It's nice to be able to lose one's self in another world. The mark of great literature.
Rating:
Summary: PURE ALICE
Review: This is a good novel if you're already a big Alice Walker fan and are "familiar" with her philosophy about life. Because I've been reading her for years, I thoroughly enjoyed this one. Something more groundbreaking and really fantastic to pick up is the new novel by Walker-wannabe Kola Boof. Her "Flesh and the Devil" is powerful, cutting edge and daring like Alice Walker and Toni Morrison's earlier works. I highly recommend that book in addition to this one. The new one from Barbara Chase-Riboud "Hottentot Venus" was even better. That one deserves the pulitzer prize, but I was also really impressed by "Flesh and the Devil". It's nice to be able to lose one's self in another world. The mark of great literature.
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Summary: Humanity pondered
Review: When Alice Walker, the earthy literary wordsmith, releases a new book, I feel
an unmistakable pull that compels me to not only buy the book but to read it.
So, when NOW IS THE TIME TO OPEN YOUR HEART was released
I did as the unforeseen forces commanded, I bought and read the book
and I haven't regretted one solitary reflective moment since I did.
In NOW IS THE TIME TO OPEN YOUR HEART, we meet Kate, a successful author who
is pondering her life. She seems to have reached a crossroads of sorts where
she is trying to unearth the meaning of her existence. This search leads her
on a number of soul-searching journeys that ultimately leads Kate to a truer
understanding of herself and others around her.
In true Walker style, this novel is filled with wonderful symbolism and
experiences which draw the reader in and makes him/her a part of the main
character's quest. Walker's characters deal with a myriad of issues including
aging, sexuality, religion, abuse, and defining oneself. I found myself
disappointed when I read the final words. I wanted the journey to continue
and somehow, after reading NOW IS THE TIME TO OPEN YOUR HEART, I think Walker
wants it to as well.
Reviewed by Diane Marbury
of The RAWSISTAZ Reviewers
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