If This World Were Mine
In the hilarious "just keepin' it real" style novel, If This World Were Mine, by E. Lynn Harris, a group of friends decide to start a journal club, like they did back in their college English class. This story is told by each and all takes place in the 90's around the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays. Sometimes it is easier to put your thoughts on paper rather than express them out loud. A group of college friends decides to restart their journal club called, If This World Were Mine. The group includes Yolanda, single, independent, and not looking for a man. She was once married, but her husband wanted to travel, while she was ready to be stable. Then there's Dr. Leland Thompson, gay and single. Riley Woodson, the epidimy of beauty. She's married to her college sweetheart Selwyn, who is also a member of the journal club, and they have a set of twins', Ryan and Reginald. Dwight Leon Scott is also a member he is divorced and mad at the world. He was married to Kelli, a former member of the group. She left because Dwight wouldn't. The group has monthly meetings where they eat, drink, and read and discuss their journals. Each member of the group always brings something to read to the meeting, but they never read what is
" Taylor then continued to tell his story, while Leland thought of Yolanda and how he could tell her the news. When she got back her and Leland had a long discussion about John. Yolanda was mad at Leland for not telling her sooner. He told his Dad about how his Uncle Mac' molested him at the age of nine, and that every since that day he has looked at men in a different way. Taylor told Leland about the man's gray eyes which made Leland think about Yolanda's new guy friend. After Leland's secretary scheduled the meeting and Taylor made it to the office, he began to tell Leland what was going on. They all feel like they have to impress the other members, which defeats the whole purpose of the journal club. After Yolanda finished talking Leland told her that his client, Taylor, had an affair with John and that he had been trying to tell her, but he just didn't know how to. I like the dialogue in the novel, it made the characters seem more realistic. Leland left the hospital after about five days. At the same time Yolanda was in New York handling some business and also visiting John, her new guy friend. After realizing what would help him to get over the hurt of being molested, John quit working at his job, and became a psychiatrist for sexually abused adolescents. He decided to call his father since Yolanda wouldn't listen to him. While back in Chicago, Taylor was still talking with Leland about the man he saw that he had met back in the days when he was a family court judge.
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