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1990's Devil In A Blue introduces the character Easy Rawlins.  In 1948 Easy or Ezekiel is an African American war veteran, factory worker from Texas who moved to Los Angeles to escape his friend Mouse. Read the book and you'll find out why.  After losing his job and needing money to pay his mortgage, Easy is solicited by a obviously malignant individual to find a white woman name of Daphney Monet.  Of course the initial search opens the door to a full blown mystery of unanswered questions, beat downs, and murder.  The 1995 movie  starred Denzel Washington as Easy, Don Cheadle as Mouse, and Jennifer Beals as Daphney.  Unfortunately there were no movies made after the first one. Mosley wrote ten more books featuring Easy Rawlins as he evolves into a full time detective.  2007's Blond Faith was to be the last book in the Rawlins series, but I hear that's not what's going to happen. I met Walter Mosley briefly when he was at the Baltimore Book ...

The Blue Bookcase Blog Hop It seems that people don't like to read literature because they think literaure is complicated, dull, and not connection to real life.  English classes in school may contribute to this belief.  Many people have had instructors who use their favorite texts in classes.  Of course, teachers want students to like them too.  Unfortunately young people, middle-aged people, and old people tend to resist on principle what is forced upon them.  It's human nature.   When my son Bub was in middle school he would not read.  Do you hear me?  Nothing.  That boy wouldn't even read a comic book.  So I read Letter From A Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King aloud to him and some Langston Hughes poetry.  I was taking an African American literature class at the time and I had an anthology.  He had never heard any of it before and he liked it.  He seemed to have an interest in American re...

The book I have owned the longest is the Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe .   I can't remember when or where it was bought, but my maiden name is on the first page.   I have been married over twenty-seven years so I'm guessing I have had it for about twenty-eight years.  My favorite in the book is the detective story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" originally published in  1841 and considered the first detective story written in English.  Detective Fiction is a specific genre that consists of a crime or puzzle that needs solving, an investigator who can be professional or amateur, clear or unclear pertinent clues, and a denoment or gathering together of relevant facts that lead to the ultimate solving of the mystery.  My favorite detective is Sherlock Holmes who is a self-taught expert in crime detection.  Holmes and many other fictional investigators sometimes have an a...