I just finished Kathryn Stockett's debut novel The Help.
It was 400+ pages and I breezed through it more quickly than any book I've ever read.
I'd been curious about it ever since I was sitting on a airplane and every single woman around me was reading this same exact book.
The novel is set in the early 1960's Mississippi. It follows three primary characters, two Black Housekeepers, and one privileged White woman. They form an admirable, loving, and unique bond in their mutual quest to inspire change and action in the civil rights movement.
It's one of those books that you develop an affection for...almost like how I feel about my boyfriend. I'd change any plans to get to be with it. I'd think about it while I was at work. I'd stay up late and go to work with red eyes just for a few more pages.
The only bad thing about loving a book this much is that now that I finished reading it, I'm a little depressed. There's a void in my heart and on my nightstand.
It was 400+ pages and I breezed through it more quickly than any book I've ever read.
I'd been curious about it ever since I was sitting on a airplane and every single woman around me was reading this same exact book.
The novel is set in the early 1960's Mississippi. It follows three primary characters, two Black Housekeepers, and one privileged White woman. They form an admirable, loving, and unique bond in their mutual quest to inspire change and action in the civil rights movement.
It's one of those books that you develop an affection for...almost like how I feel about my boyfriend. I'd change any plans to get to be with it. I'd think about it while I was at work. I'd stay up late and go to work with red eyes just for a few more pages.
The only bad thing about loving a book this much is that now that I finished reading it, I'm a little depressed. There's a void in my heart and on my nightstand.
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