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Well to start I'll say that I've wanted to both join and start a book club for a long time. Now I feel like it's the right time to make a committment so I'm glad that this opportunity came along. For a little about me, I'm mostly right, hate being wrong and sometimes stubborn. I am a book collector, and avid reader, and a writer in my mind and in my heart (just not in my job... yet). I am a fiction buff, although I will read non-fiction that catches my interest- and I'm a sucker for trashy romance novels (they make the train ride go a little faster and they always have happy endings, which I love). Anywayyyyyyyy...

My Favorite- Just Above My Head by James Baldwin. Baldwin is my writing soul mate; no one speaks to me like he does.

Last Book I Read- The Shadow of Your Smile by Mary Higgins Clark. She's one of the best in her genre and I'm always on the edge of my seat when I read her.

Book I'd Like To Read- A Mercy by Toni Morrison. I've had the book for some time, but Ms. Morrison is such a hard read that you have to prepare yourself and focus, so you can give her the attention she needs- and I haven't been abole to do that

First Meeting

Well, it's May now. I think that we need to have a first meeting to schedule when we will meet, how often, and create a book list of the future reads. I think that if we plan now to meet in June, then we can actually get together then, without to much getting in the way. I think mid-June would be a good time for the first meeting. June 12th or the 19th. Hopefully you all an let me know what you think about this date.

Tea

Tea's Favorites

Well, I guess, I will be the first to start this off...

Favorite Book - Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. There is something about this black man's plight that keeps me rereading this book and going back to it.

Last Book Read - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Diaz by Junot Diaz. This was part of my book of month missions and surprisingly better than what I expected it to be. It told a wonderous tale about a Dominican family and was able to move back and forth between America and DR.

Book I want to Read - White Teeth by Zadie Smith. I read her book On Beauty and this made me want to go back and read her previous work.

A little about me - I like to read (I guess we already knew this). I need books to get away from my everyday life, but for some reason, as an adult I have to force myself to read them. Umm, nothing more in depth now I guess, I think that about says it all.

Tea