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Favorite Books

Reading is my escape from reality. A good book is where I go when I need a get-a-way!!!

Edwidge Danticat ... is one of my all time favorite authors. I've read all but one of her works so far ...
"Breath, Eyes, Memory"
"The Dew Breaker"
"The Farming of Bones"
"Krik? Krak"

Diane McKinney Whetstone ... yet another favorite of mine.

"Tumbling"
"Tempest Rising"
"Leaving Cecil Street"
"Blues Dancing"


Alice Walker ... I only wish to be as prolific as she someday.

"In Search of Our Mother's Garden"
"The Color Purple"
"Horses Make A Landscape Look More Beautiful"
"Living By the Word"
"Anything We Love Can Be Saved"
" Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990"

Toni Morrison ... her name alone has come to symbolize strength.

"The Bluest Eye"
"Beloved"
"Sula"
"The Dancing Mind: Speech upon Acceptance of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters"

J. California Cooper ... good stories just come to her.

"Family"
"The Matter is Life"
"A Piece of Mine"
"In Search of Satisfaction"
"Homemade Love"
"Some Soul to Keep"


Zora Neale Hurston ... she paved the way for them all.

"There Eyes Were Watching God"
"Moses, Man of the Mountain"
"Jonah's Gourd Vine"
"Spunk"


other authors that I admire include- Jamaica Kincaid, James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, June Jordan, Nikki Giovanni, Octavia Butler, Marse Conde, Buchi Emecheta, Pearl S. Buck, Maya Angelou, and E. Lynn Harris.