In the hilarious just keepin it real style novel, If This World Were Mine, by E. Lynn Harris, agroup of friends decide to start a journal club, like they did back in their college English class. This story istold 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 ofcollege friends decides to restart their journal club called, If This World Were Mine. The group includesYolanda, single, independent, and not looking for a man. She was once married, but her husband wanted totravel, while she was ready to be stable. Then theres Dr. Leland Thompson, gay and single. Riley Woodson,the epidimy of beauty. Shes married to her college sweetheart Selwyn, who is also a member of the journalclub, and they have a set of twins, Ryan and Reginald. Dwight Leon Scott is also a member he is divorcedand mad at the world. He was married to Kelli, a former member of the group. She left because Dwightwouldnt. The group has monthly meetings where they eat, drink, and read and discuss their journals. Eachmember of the group always brings something to read to the meeting, but they never read what is reallygoing on in their lives. They all feel like they have to impress the other members, which defeats the wholepurpose of the journal club. The climax of the story begins when Lelands client, Taylor Wilson called and asked to have anemergency meeting. After Lelands secretary scheduled the meeting and Taylor made it to the office, hebegan to tell Leland what was going on. At the same time Yolanda was in New York handling somebusiness and also visiting John, her new guy friend. One day she went to Johns apartment on surprise andgot a bigger surprise than she expected. While back in Chicago, Taylor was still talking with Leland aboutthe man he saw that he had met back in the days when he was a family court judge. They had an...
