As y'all know I have started reading The Help by Kathryn Stockett. I am really enjoying it. It even made Adam chuckle when I was telling him about it and he NEVER wants to hear about books I am reading. I am only about a 1/3 of the way in but I want to TALK about it.
I have been throwing around the idea of starting a book discussion/club type thing for a while and I think I may have found the medium, we will see. Anyway, I have started a discussion forum for books (see the tabs at the top of the blog) and there are now questions on there for The Help. Let's get a-talking about this book. I went and got some questions from a website that has book club suggestions and added a question of my own. Feel free to add questions you want to add and any of your two cents.
The only thing I ask is that you be respectful to others opinions and if you put any information that could be considered a SPOILER then to mark your post as such. Thanks!
This is a little spot where I spend a few minutes musing on the stuff that is my life. I think I am pretty funny and totally fascinating so hopefully that is how you will feel too.
Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts
Friday, August 12, 2011
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
The Cool Thing To Do
I am going to read The Help by Kathryn Stockett. It seems what EVERYONE is reading or recommending to read so I am going to jump on the train. I will let y'all know how it turns out. By the way, Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum novel Smokin' Seventeen was really funny and a quick read... just finished it.
In case you are the last person to hear about this book here is the summary below.
Summary (from GoodReads.com)
Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step.
Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone.
Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken.
Minny, Aibileen's best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobody's business, but she can't mind her tongue, so she's lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own.
Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.
In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women - mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends - view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don't.
In case you are the last person to hear about this book here is the summary below.
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Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step.
Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone.
Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken.
Minny, Aibileen's best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobody's business, but she can't mind her tongue, so she's lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own.
Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.
In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women - mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends - view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don't.
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
I Am Really Lovin'...
...The Vampire Book Club Blog.
If you have read my list of books I have completed this year or the list of my favorite book series you will notice a general theme... I like sci-fi and paranormal type books (Which I think I need to take a look at how I have been classifying them and fix it because I know I am wrong). I just have always been drawn to books with vampires, witches, ghosts and the like since I was a young girl and got my hands on some Christopher Pike or RL Stein. For me, books are about an escape from reality and what is more of an escape than to a story set in a world that is nothing like our own even if it different by the types of characters in it.
Plus, what is more romantic than the idea of immortality and the power and pain that goes with it?
I think this is why so many of us are drawn to the idea of vampires and why they have become so sexy and popular in our culture right now. There is just an allure and an appeal to being able to live forever. That isn't even talking about the power and money you can amass that would draw quite a few people to it. This all coupled with the tragedy that you watch those you love wither and die. Makes for a brilliant plot line.
Anyway, if you like any type of paranormal genre then you need to check out this blog plus they have a TON of giveaways which is always quite awesome. Their partner site My Bookish Ways is pretty great, too.
If you have read my list of books I have completed this year or the list of my favorite book series you will notice a general theme... I like sci-fi and paranormal type books (Which I think I need to take a look at how I have been classifying them and fix it because I know I am wrong). I just have always been drawn to books with vampires, witches, ghosts and the like since I was a young girl and got my hands on some Christopher Pike or RL Stein. For me, books are about an escape from reality and what is more of an escape than to a story set in a world that is nothing like our own even if it different by the types of characters in it.
Plus, what is more romantic than the idea of immortality and the power and pain that goes with it?
I think this is why so many of us are drawn to the idea of vampires and why they have become so sexy and popular in our culture right now. There is just an allure and an appeal to being able to live forever. That isn't even talking about the power and money you can amass that would draw quite a few people to it. This all coupled with the tragedy that you watch those you love wither and die. Makes for a brilliant plot line.
Anyway, if you like any type of paranormal genre then you need to check out this blog plus they have a TON of giveaways which is always quite awesome. Their partner site My Bookish Ways is pretty great, too.
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