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sherone_13
True Blue Farmgirl
2460 Posts
Sherone
Evanston
WY
USA
2460 Posts |
 Posted - Dec 30 2011 : 1:15:57 PM
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This is an excellent read. It really depicts what it might have been like to be a black woman in 1960 Mississippi. Below is the description from Amazon:
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.
Sherone
Farmgirl Sister #1682
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Bear5
True Blue Farmgirl
13055 Posts
Louisiana/Texas
USA
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Posted - Dec 30 2011 : 2:27:16 PM
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I loved the book! Before I see the movie, I want to re-read the book again. I hope the movie is as good.
Marly
"It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up- that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had." Elisabeth Kurler-Ross |
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jessabelluh
True Blue Farmgirl
349 Posts
Jessica
South Dakota
USA
349 Posts |
Posted - Dec 30 2011 : 3:38:19 PM
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I loved the book, and the movie! The book was, of course, better than the movie.
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dutchy
True Blue Farmgirl
4427 Posts
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Posted - Dec 30 2011 : 10:09:36 PM
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I bought this book while I was in Thailand last summer. LOVE it. The movie is just now showing in the Netherlands and as soon as it is playing in my area...I am going!! Books are 99 times out of a hundred better then the movie but still......LOVED the book *Her name was Sarah*, and the movie was almost as good. Hope it will be the same with *The Help*
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knead2garden
True Blue Farmgirl
359 Posts
Ashley
Spring City
TN
USA
359 Posts |
Posted - Jan 04 2012 : 3:25:39 PM
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Loved the book. Have not seen the movie, yet!
~Ashley
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
11381 Posts |
Posted - Jan 06 2012 : 09:11:58 AM
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Loved the book..liked the movie alot too. (watched it on Netflix not long ago) I always like books better than their movies..but this one was pretty good.
Jenny in Utah
Proud Farmgirl sister #24
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jpbluesky
True Blue Farmgirl
6066 Posts
Jeannie
Florida
USA
6066 Posts |
Posted - Jan 06 2012 : 5:46:14 PM
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I really enjoyed the book and the movie....my one comment, from many decades living in the deep south is this.....white people are depicted worse than they really were. They are cast as caricatures.
Farmgirl Sister # 31
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dutchy
True Blue Farmgirl
4427 Posts
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Posted - Jan 06 2012 : 11:51:06 PM
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Shirley Jean, but aren't *black people* also not almost always caricatured??(is that a word,  mmm) I mean, they are almost always depicted as being dumb, *funny*, often fat etc. So I think both are so often seen as caricatures of themselves
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jpbluesky
True Blue Farmgirl
6066 Posts
Jeannie
Florida
USA
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Posted - Jan 07 2012 : 1:38:08 PM
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good point, Dutchy! You are right. I guess that means turnabout is fair play?
Farmgirl Sister # 31
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