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I love reading. Particularly stories about and from the perspective of women. Seeing what they see, feeling how they feel, not because the experiences are different from my own but because they are so familiar. While the settings are indeed different, the characters are different, the emotions are the same. So I read to escape into a different world to find those things that are the similar.

A few of my top authors are Toni Morrison, Pearl Cleage, and Alice Walker (in order of discovery). Their honest approach to human emotion and unveiled exposure behind what we believe to be beautiful or ugly forces me to re-evaluate my perspective on what is typical or normal, which does not exist in their work. While there are many other authors that I admire, I realized that after reading all that the above have written, I was left empty searching for new authors for my particularity. And I have found a few. The following are novels I read recently and thoroughly enjoyed:

Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self by Danielle Evans

Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by Z.Z. Packer

Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward

The Taste of Salt by Martha Southgate

Mellanation will reveal the authors that I discover (as in new to me), their stories and my experience reading them. Each novel will be announced prior to my reading of it. But please note, I am not conducting formal reviews, do not read novel summaries nor descriptions prior to its reading and will reveal the ending of the novel (for discussion purposes) when complete. This week I will be reading Third Girl from the Left by Martha Southgate and I welcome you to read along and share your perspectives with me. Until next time….Mella