Jill Carter
Possessing the Secret of Joy by Alice Walker
|Possessing the Secret of Joy by Alice Walker
I’ll be honest. I started reading Possessing the Secret of Joy for a class. I’d avoided reading Alice Walker in high school, and I didn’t really have any desire to read her work in college. I assumed her writing would be dry and monotonous like the other novels my 11th grade English professor assigned us. I couldn’t have been further off.
Walker's novel reveals the mind of Tashi (also referred to as Evelyn, Tashi-Evelyn, and Mrs. Johnson), a woman from the Olinkan tribe in an unnamed African country who underwent female circumcision. The story follows Tashi’s struggle to come to terms with her circumcision and the efforts of her family to support her, as readers are left to piece together the events of Tashi’s life.
Bossypants by Tina Fey
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Bossypants by Tina Fey
I first fell in love with Tina Fey through her portrayal of Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live. Then I became obsessed with her show 30 Rock and made a point of watching any of her movies I could get my hands on. So, obviously, I had very high hopes when I began reading Bossypants. I was not disappointed.
