Thursday, January 5, 2012

#1--The Help by Kathryn Stockett

I've been wanting to read The Help ever since the book club at school read it last year.  Finally got a copy of it from my friend RuthAnn a few months ago and decided that it was high time I read it--since it seemed like everyone around me had read it (including my dad) and I hate going to see a movie for a book I haven't read yet.  I picked it up Monday after school and finished it Tuesday night, after midnight--couldn't put it down, even for sleep. 

The characters and relationships seemed so believable and authentic.  I would like to think I would have had the guts like Skeeter, had I lived in Mississippi during the early 1960s, but I'll never know for sure.  Having never read anything from the point of view from the help, this was an eye-opener. 

If you are one of the individuals waiting for the Cliffs Notes version to come out, don't wait....it was worth every single word!!

Happy Reading!

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