I recommend anyone who enjoys realistic, heart-wrenching, perfectly written fiction stop now and order Glorious TODAY! This book had me running through every gamut of feelings known to man! Love, lust, sadness, despair, hate, desire, fear, happiness, and loneliness. In my very humble (correct) opinion Glorious will be read as thoroughly and with as much reverence as Ms. I honestly thought I'd only read 10 pages!' I didn't have a chance to get bored at all. 'She didn't waste a word! Not one single word! Every word had meaning and carried this story forward. (It must have been the look on my face of pure confusion and delight!) In about 5 minutes I was forty pages into the book and my fiance looked at me a little odd. I said to myself, 'Self, I'll read for a minute and then put it down.' Well I don't listen well, even to myself. When I started this book I will admit that I was a little taken aback by the '20th Century Novelishness' (yes, another made up word.love having my own blog) of it. Had Bernice McFadden's book been in that course, I would have had a book that I could read in no time at all and would have honestly enjoyed. But in all honesty I couldn't get through most of the other EIGHT books we had to read in the 8 week semester.

Now don't get me wrong, I loved A Tree Grows In Brooklyn and Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God. I've suffered through some 20th Century Novel courses for college.

Books by bernice mcfadden