Their eyes were watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

I was blog whoring a couple of days ago and I got a link to this book Their eyes were watching God You can download it and enjoy. Its not that long (200 and something pages is not that bad is it?) so those who hate reading long novels do not get your knickers in a twist.lol And just so you know, Author Zadie Smith read the book when she was just a teenager. Read this interview and hear what she had to say about it. 

No I wasn't paid to advertise!

I read it on my phone and I loved it. If you enjoyed Titanic and Romeo and Juliet then you're definitely going to love this book. It revolves around the character Janie who while still married to Logan Killicks is convinced by Jody starks to leave her man. However things don't pan out they way Janie expected.

Then a lovely young man called Tea cakes shows up in her life and Janie finally finds true love -that she has been looking for all her life- despite the fact that he is younger and he has no money. 

A lil birdie told me that there is even a movie loosely based on the book where Halle Berry plays Janie and Michael Ealy is Tea Cakes. 

Now if anybody has that movie hook a sista up!

Just like in the book Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison the characters have the funniest names. They include; Tea Cakes,  Bootyny, leafy crawford,Motor Boat and Who flung. I just cant with these names.lol  

Below are some juicy quotes from the book to give you a taste( I'm so bad!)

"They huddled closer and stared at the door. They just didn't use another part of their bodies, and they didn't look at anything but the door. The time was past for asking the white folks what to look for through that door. Six eyes were questioning God."
- Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Ch. 18A

Please God, please suh, don't let him love nobody else but me. Maybe Ah'm is uh fool, Lawd, lak dey say, but Lawd, Ah been so lonesome, and Ah been waitin', Jesus. Ah done waited uh long time.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God 


"Two things everybody's got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin' fuh theyselves.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

 "Then you must tell 'em dat love ain't somethin' lak uh grindstone dat's de same thing everywhere and do de same thing tuh everything it touch. Love is lak de sea. It's uh movin' thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it's different with every shore.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

If that don't make you wanna read the whole book then I give up! 

Quit running chile!

I have always been a runner. No not Kemboi-like. I mean like running from my problems. You see, I'm not really a fighter. If I see a war coming on, I run the other way. I just never see the point. That and because Im chicken shit plus I hate losing.That's why I don't answer trolls or engage with people who try to bully me on the different social networks I'm on.

The thing about running is that it never really solves anything. The same problems you are running away from are always there. So if and when you you do come back they will be still there waiting for you. They aint going nowhere. And if you keep running sooner or later you run out of places to hide or you get tired of running like I learnt the hard way this week.My BFF always tells me that when I run from my problems I only change my geographical location but nothing else. And I totally I agree with here.

Maybe the man or woman that you have is the one you are meant to have. Maybe the job you have now is the one you were meant to have for this season. Or the situation you are in, you are meant to go through and learn from it. Ever notice that if you don't confront a problems it keeps on coming back in many otyher avenues!

But now you keep jumping from one lover to another, or from one job to another and you are still not getting any satisfaction. Me thinks Providence is tryna tell you chile QUIT RUNNING ALREADY! Just keep still for a spell and listen to what your heart is trying to tell you.

If you only would just be patient for a little while and for once enjoy where you are; you will see the difference. Now relax and just for once in your life- like yours truly- quit running.

I leave you with one of my favourite songs by the rock band Daughtry from their album Leave this town. Enjoy!