[ClassyLady]

On the recommendation of someone on another listserve, I picked up Heatseekers by Zane in an airport shop recently. I planned on reading it on the plane, but that didn't happen. I only got through six or seven pages before I closed the book and deposited it in the closest trash can. It was so horrible and just not my kind of book.

I don't mind a book about romance, love, and/or sex, but Zane was just downright trashy. She writes the way that you expect to hear people talking in a nightclub bathroom. Every other word was d**k or p***y. It was so unappealing. I could not take reading about professional, educated black women being portrayed as sex-driven, tasteless, promiscuous freaks.

I also picked up God's Gift to Women by Michael Baidsden. It was a good read and I finished it the day after I bought it. It was kind of reminiscent of "A Thin Line Between Love and Hate" but it was good nonetheless.

I have also just finished Mama's Girl by Veronica Chambers (it's a memoir but reads like a novel) and The Nanny Diaries (can't remember the authors but it was funny as hell.)