Book Club - Now Reading: Getting to Happy

When any book or movie is extraordinarily popular and adored, it’s fairly difficult to imagine a sequel, let alone a sequel that could come close to holding a candle to the much-loved first one. But when you wait a decade and a half? For a book that was such a cult-classic that it was ALSO made into a movie? Seems like quite the tall order!  Read more >

Terry McMillan has obviously been doing a lot of that lately.  I'm not sure she's   Read more >

Maybe it's because I didn't read the first book, Waiting to Exhale. Maybe it's because I didn't see the movie and lacked emotional attachment to already established characters. Whatever the reason, I found it extremely difficult to get lost in the lives and times of Gloria, Robin, Savannah and Bernadine in  Read more >

I was in college when I read my first Terry McMillan book. I was taking a course in African-American literature, and the last novel for the semester was Waiting to Exhale. I loved that book.  Read more >