Title: The Help Author: Kathryn Stockett Genre: Fiction, Race Publication Date: 2009 The publisher’s summary: Aibileen is a black maid in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, raising her seventeenth white child. She’s always taken orders quietly, but lately it leaves her with a bitterness she can no longer bite back. Her friend Minny has certainly never held…
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Six Miles Up: Reading While Flying
Flying is, in general, unpleasant — especially since September 11, 2001. While I by no means wish the TSA to disappear from security checkpoints, I find the entire process frustrating and possibly demeaning (if you have to go through those new body scanners). The actual flights aren’t much better. You’re crammed like a sardine next…
Gothic Reading Challenge
My first reading challenge — I’m so excited! I’m ready to delve further into drafty/creepy castles, puzzle over unexplained events, root for the damsel in distress, and explore further a genre to which I am no stranger, but would like to get to know better. There are four levels of epic in the Gothic Reading…
A Dash of Trash: The Naughty Novel
This may be a little embarrassing, but I think we know each other well enough now that I can admit something to you: I own dirty books. And before you ask, yes, that kind of dirty. This used to be a source of embarrassment for me — not only is it possible to get caught…
“I can no longer live by thinking.” (As You Like It)
Title: The Cookbook Collector Author: Allegra Goodman Genre: Fiction, with a bit of non-fiction and Psychology mixed in Publication Date: 2010 Purchase Price: $26.00 Emily and Jess Bach may look a lot alike, but the two sisters have almost nothing in common. Practical, hard-working Emily is making a fortune with her start-up company, and Jess…