The Help

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


I'm afraid my review is not going to do justice to this wonderful novel. I had heard a lot of good things written about The Help by Kathryn Stockett and couldn't wait to read it for myself.

The novel focuses on three women, Aibilene, Minnie, and Skeeter trying to live their very different lives in the turbulent 1960s in Jackson, Mississippi. Skeeter who wants to be more than an adornment for a husband, has just graduated from college and wishes to be a writer. Minnie and Aibilene, both maids, work for Skeeter's best friends. The three women form a unlikely alliance, in the the midst of fear and oppression, in hopes of changing Jackson.

I can't wait to see the movie and I hope it does the book justice.



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Promises to Keep

Promises to Keep by Ann Tatlock

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


It's the 1960s, the middle of the Cold War and eleven year old Roz's world has been turned upside down. Her mom has left her dad, taking Wally, her teenage brother, baby sister Valerie and Roz to a small town in Illinois, where her Grandpa lives. Even though her father had abused her mother, Roz still wants them back together. When she makes a new friend named Mara, who misses her own father, both plot to get their dads back. The stabilizing force in the middle of all this chaos is wise, old Tillie Monroe, who helped build the house that Roz and her family now occupy, and decides to move right back in and take over.



This is one of the best books I've read, and as a child of the 60's I can relate to so many of the external events. Definitely a feel good book told from the eyes of an eleven year child with wonderful, interesting, lovable characters like Tillie.



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