What Fiction are you reading this week, June 18, 2023?

[LisaM]

14. Today I read "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston.

I hadn't planned on it, but I have a lot of books I have bought intending to read them, but haven't gotten to yet, and this was one of them. It seemed like an appropriate day to read it, and wow, am I glad I did. I guess it fell out of favor for a while because of the vernacular dialogue, till Alice Walker championed a revival a few decades ago, so for that reason it was never on my class reading lists.

It was written in 1937 but it's a really modern book, and it ended on a positive note, so I can't wait to recommend it to anyone who hasn't read it. A lot of research went into the book, but it's a very easy read, because the writer is so accomplished. (So many new books get bogged down because the author does a lot of research and doesn't seem to know what to leave out, which is often more important than what they leave in).