Book Beginnings The First Gardener by Denise Hildreth Jones

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"The sides a MY BOLOGNA gone and curled up in that cast-iron skillet when a pop a grease splattered out. Landed smack-dab on the mornin' paper I done set on the counter."

Friday56

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"He sighed. No point in worrying about what he couldn't control. Better to focus on what was. Mack. Maddie. And his work, which was--"

The Classic Bribe

This novel tells the story of a woman named Janie Crawford. Janie Crawford begins her life in Georgia. She lives with her grandma. Janie’s grandma loves her deeply. Janie’s grandma wants her to lead a different life than the one led by her daughter and Janie’s mother. Grandma knows she’s about to die and go to the other side. So she decides to choose a good husband for Janie. His name is Logan. He’s an older man and not a good looking man. He’s just a man with 60 acres of land. He’s done well with his life. With him, grandma thinks, Janie will fine security. Love doesn’t matter. If it comes along during the marriage, that’s good. If it doesn’t come, that’s fine too. It’s all about having food, clothing and shelter and a few luxuries. Janie sees life differently than her grandma. Janie wants to be loved and loved passionately. “Ah wants things sweet wid mah marriage lak when you sit under a pear tree and think. Ah…“
In Their Eyes Were Watching God by ZORA NEALE HURSTON, three different men enter Janie’s life: Logan, Jody and Tea Cake. With each man Janie grows stronger and becomes wiser. I thought she

always seemed liked a woman ahead of her time. Janie knows she has a head on her shoulder. It isn’t just put there to hold a pretty face and a head full of thick, pretty hair. Neither is she put on the earth to be a man’s slave or play toy. I suppose it took making her tracks out of Georgia to Eatonville, Florida and back to Georgia to know her self worth and to know her inner soul.
“Here was peace. She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder, So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see.“quirkygirlsread