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 …showed first 75 words of 938 total…

…showed last 75 words of 938 total…novel very funny and overall kept my attention. I like the dialogue in the novel, it made the characters seem more realistic. A couple of parts in the book I skipped because they were boring and had no relevance to the main conflict of the story. The message of this novel is that life is an everyday struggle and although you can live everyday saying "if," you must still live your life for "what is."