Book of the Month: Their Eyes Were Watching GOD

"Love is a movin' thang, and it's different on every shore." - Janie from Their Eyes Were Watching God

October's Book of the Month is Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching GOD. The book is about a woman named Janie, and her attempts at find true love throughout her life. In the end she finally finds it in a man about 11 years younger than her named Vergible Woods better known as Tea Cake. I'm gonna be honest, I watched the movie (which was produced by Oprah and starred Halle Berry and Micheal Ealy) and fell in love with it before I actually sat down and read the book. Another truth is that if I hadn't had to read this novel for my African American Lit. class I probably wouldn't have read it, because I was very much satisfied with the movie. I am glad I did because the book went into much more detail than the movie did, which I'm finding out is always the case with books turned movies.