Hiatus!

That's what happens when you graduate college. You forget about your scholarly pursuits and get a job that sucks the free time and creativity out of you. Luckily for me, my workplace has yet to block blogger! I haven't quit reading- not by a long shot. The most sustancial book I have read recently is "Their Eyes were Watching God." Ben Herrick recommended that I read this and I can't beleive that I had lived 27 years without it! Amazing story telling. Great action and beatifully written. I love a story told in a woman's perspective. I haven't been so moved by a woman's story since I read "A Color Purple" while I was in middle school. In that novel Celie learns to love and in this novel Janie learns what love is, what it isn't and how to survive without it. I was torn to pieces reading about Janie and Teacake's love and the disaster that disrupted it. I may have a new favorite.

I would say more but it has been awhile since I finished and I don't want to try and analyze what isn't fresh in my mind.

Other books I read on Hiatus from Blogging:
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 1860
Can't Wait to Get to Heaven by Fannie Flag 2006
The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins 2008-2010
Under the Dome by Stephen King 2009
Gerald's Game by Stephen King 1992
Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King 1992
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007

Obviously I did a little pleasure reading since graduation and I have no regrets about that. Most of these do not fit into my 1900 - 2000 timeline nor do they count as strictly "literature." Rediscovering my blog I think has re-lit the Lit fire so to speak but no promises I won't just read Harry Potter two or three more times.