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I plan on going to the library soon and checking out some good books, so I thought I would get some ideas here. So, what's everyone reading? And, is it worth checking out?

The million dollar divorce is a good read. It was very hard to put down. Check it out.

I finished The Million Dollar Divorce last month -- and I thought it was a pretty crazy read! It was interesting, but I didn't understand the husband's motivations at all. It worked for the plot, but I could not understand what could drive someone to be so cold-hearted! He (Kenny) blamed her (Monica) for everything, and I just couldn't believe that!

I'm also reading, or I have recently read:

Bling (by Erica Kennedy, I think), Gotham Diaries, Such a Girl (by Karen Siplin), Miss Black America (by Veronica Chambers), The Best Kept Secret (Kimberla Lawson Roby), and Drive Me Crazy (Eric Jerome Dickey). I forget the names of some of the authors!

I just finished reading Other Men's Wives by Freddie Lee Johnson III. It's about a Black man who adores his wife- until he finds out that she is cheating on him. How he find out is cold-blooded but who she's cheating with is worse. I didn't like how simplistic the author made the dichotomy between the main character and his wife. But I did like the mystery of it all. And, it's one of those rare books with a realistic ending.

I'm re-reading Beautiful. And Ugly Too by M.K. Asante, Jr. and I'm reading Shaking The Tree by Meri Nana-Ama. Both really good reads -- go get em.

I like the best "Country Lover"

Has anyone read The Man Who Lived Underground by Richard Wright? It is an awesome story in the book Black Voices.

Hey Doctor Maria,

Whoa... I just read how Wright came about this story.
This is written as a parallel between what actually
happen to a man by the name of Herbert C. Wright?

He lived in a sewer of Los Angeles for over a year.
He was eluding the police, then captured.

I have to read this. You said, "this is an awesome
story." So you have already read it?

If so, would you please come back and tell me more?

Vicki L. Forte'
Bellaonline
Crime Editor <img src="/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />

I'm currently reading "The Multicultiboho Sideshow" by Alexs D. Pate. <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />