Rating: 5 (1-5)
The Book Club pick will be announced on the 1st of every month. Imagine-- reading 12 books a year, mamas! Whoohoo!
June's pick is The Help by Kathryn Stockett. For those low on cash, the Jax library has 86 copies-- reserve one!
I swear I picked this before I knew they were making a movie of it (debuting August 2011). I was waiting til the 1st to reveal.
And.... GO! Enjoy.
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Review: So good--- lived up to the hype and beyond. I read this in under 36 hours because I was SO sucked in. No laundry, dishes, sleep or... anything, really, got done while I was reading this. Set in the 1960s, it tells the stories of the black maids/nannies working for white women in their 20s. The one white girl who actually finished college and comes back (unmarried, tsk, tsk) begins to see the town in a new light and wants to write a book about "The Help" from their perspective. (i.e. They do 90% of the child-rearing--they leave that to them--but at the same time put out a memo about how 'negros are diseased and we must keep a separate toilet for them'.) Such a great read, well-written, gripping.
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