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I really enjoyed “The Help” – great fictional characters give an interesting insight into how real people — black and white — lived their lives during the civil rights movement. I read this for book club & it was an excellent book for promoting discussion as well. Thoroughly enjoyable!
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A good read and most enjoyable. The humor in this book about nursing homes is right on the mark. The characters are believable and likeable. The story line is good and romantic. The ending is open for discussion–but good.
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I bought this book for book club. It was the best sounding of the choices offered and our vote was unanimous for The Help. I really was not expecting much. Boy was I surprised! This was definitely a hard to put down page turner! I was hooked almost from the beginning. The characters are so easy to relate to! I didn’t see how a white lady was going to be able to write with the voices of civil rights era black women from the South. I was wrong. The women are easy to bond with and as the reader I could feel the pain and outrage and acceptance and fear of being a black woman in a white man’s home & world. Just as in the book, as a white woman I had pre-conceived notions as to how this book told thru a black woman’s eyes would progress. I am so glad I read it! I encourage everyone to reach out of their safety margin and read this novel!
Hearing the Other Side

Mixed reviews held me back from reading this book for quite some time, despite my recent foray into juvenile literature. I have to say I have mixed feelings as well, though not for a lot of the reasons I’ve read (okay, people who say a 12-year-old criminal mastermind is just ‘too farfetched’ of an idea… did you notice the fairies and dwarves and trolls and the centaur? Oh, a 12-year old genius is too much to handle, but all of the fantasy creatures… no problem? Fiction, people… it’s fiction. If I wanted ‘real world’ stuff I’d just leave the house!). Mostly I had a very hard time picturing a lot of the creatures (specifically the dirt-eating unhinged-jawed dwarf) and didn’t have a great handle on the setting/technology/magic being described. But the action was good, and I did like a lot of the characters. So it gets a pretty middle-of-the road review, though I will read more in the series.
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