Word Garden Word List--Giovanni's Room

 Hello my little French breads. Our source this week is the short novel Giovanni's Room  by James Baldwin, which I just finished reading a couple of days ago. I had seen it on any number of lists of books to read, and seen BookTubers say it was on their 2025 TBRs, but no one seemed to tell much about why, so I just got it and read it myself. I knew it was about two men, but kind of assumed that this 1956 book would be some variety of bittersweet love story, but that's not really what it is.

James Baldwin

This story is about Giovanni, a bartender, and David, an American who is in denial about who he really is. They meet in Paris and send the reader on a grim tour of skeevy bars, predators and the preyed upon, rivers of alcohol, self-loathing and self-destruction. It's a bumpy ride to say the least. Baldwin's writing is, as always, brilliant, and the story is  worth reading but I have to say that I am both glad that I read it, and glad that I am done reading it. The only character I liked at all was Giovanni.

Anyway, what we do here is to use at least 3 of the 20 words provided in a new, original poem of our own. Then simply link up, visit others, and then, if you find yourself in Paris, go to the Louvre. This prompt remains active until next Sunday. 

And now, your List:

ashes

bitter

brick

clean

doomed

faces

forgive

mercy

rich

roaring

room

sick

sorrow

speed

terrible

truth

voice

white

wine

yellow