Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
193 pages
Type: fiction, black, women's issues
Time: 6-10 hours
Excerpt: (this is the first line of the book)
Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in reisnation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men.
Now, women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember eerything they dont want to forget. The ream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.
Synopsis: The life of Janie, a half black half white baby born, raised by her grandmother. It's only a small portion of her childhood, and follows her throughout her adult life, getting married and such.
Thoughts: Excellent book! It's a story both about blacks (not so much slavery, but life afterwards) as well as a woman in search of self. Not only a woman, but a mixed woman, not quite fitting in here nor there. It mainly deals with search of love.
It's not that many pages, but the reason why it took so long was because whenever there was speaking, it was written in the way that they would say it. As in, so many of you complain about my grammatics/typos, so you probably wouldnt enjoy this book. It was pretty hard to read, although it did become easier overtime.
Excerpt:
"De snake won't bite yuh... He skeered tuh go intuh uh coil. Skeered he'll be blowed away. Step round dat side and swim off!"
See? Anyway, I've never read any african american sort of literature. I really liked it tho. It would make a great movie (i think it may be one, im not sure)
The chick, Janie, I really got to admiring at the end of the book.