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Releasing into the Star69 Sparkley Bookbox. 27 September 2010

Taken from star69's Sparkly Bookbox.

I really enjoyed this book and had trouble putting it down. It's hard to believe that people were actually treated like this, even though I know that they were.

This is going out as a bookray.

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Participants:
grubsneerg (USA)
oppem (USA)
debbie4osu (USA)
AceofHearts (Canada)
bellivas (Greece)
IWISHIWAS (UK)
AgnesXNitt (UK)
disneyfreaksam (UK)
Chania (Finland)
Icila (France)
salvami (Ireland)
marijketje (Netherlands)

On it's way to grubsneerg.

The Help has arrived safe and sound in the States! I've been waiting to read this one for a long time, so I'm really looking forward to it. Thanks for sending and sharing, raeliz64!

This book was well worth the wait. As I'm writing this journal entry, the Bookish Quote on the BookCrossing side bar is from Carl Sagan, and says: "One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time." This book did transport me back to 1962, Jackson, Mississippi; I could easily see myself in the kitchen with Aibileen and Mae Mobley, on the screened porch of the cotton farm with Miss Skeeter and her typewriter, and in the house on the outskirts of town with Minny and Miss Celia. I could feel the heat, the humidity, and, most of all, the hope, the cleansing rains, and the new beginnings.

I'm PMing oppem for her address and will get the book on the road again ASAP.

On its way to oppem in Oregon. Enjoy!

Arrived in today's post - many thanks grubsneerg for sending on to me. It will be my next read ...

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book ...
For me it was a book on two levels.
At one level it was a well written but quick 'easy to read' book - a good book to read on the beach or travelling.
True as that might be this book also had deeper qualities at least for me.
Learning about life in the 'deep south' during the early 1960's was somewhat of an eye opener - I was only in my mid teens and growing up in England during that period and I had to keep reminding myself that this was really still happening at the same time that I was a young teenager.!!.
It was not that I didn't know this happen but more that I did not realise it was still happening during the 60's. ....
Am hoping that when the film comes out later this year they manage to 'do it justice' !!!.
Will be wrapping it up & popping it into the mail for debbie4osu sometime next week.

Sent media mail to debbie4osu who is next on the list. Hope you enjoy the read.

Checked my mailbox and there it was! Have been looking forward to this book, and will start on it tonight :) Thanks, oppem, for sending it along, and also for the really cute postcard.

Excellent book. Highly recommended! Have contacted AceofHearts and will be sending it to Canada sometime next week.

Continuing its journey to Ontario, Canada to AceofHearts

Fabulous story-thanks for letting me be a part of this ray.
Was able to post it before the massive winter storm hits Texas, hope it arrives soon :)

Received in the mail :). thanks Debbie for sending it along with a RABCK!!!!

The year is 1962. The place is Jackson, Mississippi. A place where black maids are good enough to raise white children but are considered the 'scum' of the earth.

Aibileen works for Miss Leefolt, raising Mae Mobley and keeping house. Mae Mobley's mother just doesn't have a clue with respect on how to deal with children and doesn't even like her own child.

Minny used to work for Miss Hilly's mother but Minnie's outspokenness and ways of getting even for the injustices have caused her to be fired. Now Miss Hilly, the ringleader of white society, has told everyone that Minnie stole some silver. It doesn't matter if it is true or not Minnie is now unemployable. Minnie finally finds a job on the outskirts of town for Miss Celia. Miss Celia comes from the wrong side of the tracks and is trying to 'get into' the bridge club and help with the volunteer work of the society ladies.

Miss Skeeter is home from college and already playing bridge and writing the newsletter for the League. She aims to become a journalist or writer. At first she gets the job of writing household tips for the local newspaper. But she decides to write about the maids and their employers. Will anyone have the courage to assist her and tell her their stories? Is it a story she is willing to hear?

The courage of these maids in this time period is profound. The racism and segregation is shown for what it was, just wrong. This book has the black women speaking in dialects but the white woman not. I am not from the South but wonder why Miss Skeeter has no dialect. This is a very compelling read; a book about love, hate, abuse, mistrust, attachment and three very strong females.

Both Wander-B and Lady-Anglophile have declined the book so it was mailed to Bellivas today. Enjoy!