CONFESSION!

After I read a book that really, REALLY makes me think, I feel the need to decompress.  My mind is going a million different directions at once & I need to calm it down.  Glorious was a book I needed to calm down from.  Before I would usually read a book for the 2nd, 3rd or 20th time.  Since I've gotten my Kindle though, a new book is at my fingertips, so I've taken to reading "lighter fare" in my in-between time.  AND my favorite "in-between" author is Beverly Jenkins.  Her books are perfect to cleanse my reading palate.  They are romance books set any where from the 1800's until now and EVERY. SINGLE time I go to look for one, I find one of her's that I haven't read. 

They are not your typical "romance" novels though.  Well, really, they are (I just said they weren't at first to make myself feel better).  In the end, the girl always gets her man & the man always gets his girl, he has to fight to win her love & she's a virgin & perfect and innocent.  OR if she's NOT a virgin, she's never "felt the fire that burns in her love temple such as the one she feels with Blake".  But they are SO DARN CUTE.  The stories I mean, they're cute as hell.  They're not depressing and most are set in black towns in the mid-west right after/during slavery and they have SO many interesting historical facts about how black people survived and information on the all-African-American towns that existed then that makes them very interesting, and they are well written. & people fall in love & junk & it's sweet.  Which I guess makes them not-so typical, so maybe I'm not a liar.

A LOT of her books are available on the Kindle too, which adds to her draw for me. I just 2 minutes ago finished Something Like Love by her & was COMPLETELY pissed off at myself for tearing up. 

I'm gearing up to read From Capetown with Love.  I've read the other two books in this series by Tananrive Due, Blair Underwood & Steven Barnes.  They're pretty good.  This book actually has a video trailer on Youtube.  Check it out: From Cape Town with Love.  It's part of some thing I haven't looked at to understand fully, called a vook.  They have a website to look at the whole idea of the thing (which you know I had to do, but honestly I STILL don't get it): http://www.vook.com/

I'll let you know what I think of the book though.  Have a great day!