The Great American Ready: Day 56 Their Eyes Were Watching God

I am finally officially back from our trip and it is the first Reverse Readathon which is also my first read-a-thon where I am signed up with the Facebook group.  The first read-a-thon I ever did was in April this year and it was so much fun so when I heard that Dewey's 24-Hour Readathon was having a BRAND NEW event this summer I was wigging out!!!  Especially with all the catch up I have to do to be on track with The Great American Read List.  If I did my math right (which is questionable but I try to make the effort) I am about 9 books behind (I should be on book 65 today).

So these next few posts will probably be pretty short.  Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neal Hurston is about a black girl growing up into a woman who goes through a lot of men and heartbreak to find her identity.  It sounds sort of sad.  I will pull up a quick video summary.







I was assured by my fellow read-a-thon participants that this is a good book, but it was tough for me at first so I switched to Youtube audio book as the reader can read the dialect better than I can and it sounds more real though a little flowery for my taste.  I do not own this book it is from the library and as short as this book is I do not think I will be getting through much of it because I am already 5 min. late to post on the next book.....

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