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Topics messages Last message Hogwarts Express : What are you reading in December? 77 Kerian , Today 2:00amHogwarts Express : All The Latest: Good News/Bad News 17 162 Kerian , Today 1:52am75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Terri's Third Thread 109 tloeffler , Today 1:41amBook talk : A Fun Book Game - Part II 323 rolandperkins , Today 1:37amWhat Are You Reading Now? : Your BEST BOOKS of 2009 92 teelgee , Today 12:16am50 Book Challenge : karspeak's 4X8 for 2009 141 callen610 , Yesterday 10:47pm50 Book Challenge : lbradf joining the group to see if I can do it 93 callen610 , Yesterday 10:44pmBook talk : Choose a Book That You Would Enjoy Reading and Haven't Yet 158 PaperbackPirate , Yesterday 9:17pm75 Books Challenge for 2010 : DonnaReads in 2010 32 Whisper1 , Yesterday 7:17pm75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Porch_Reader's 2009 Reading, Part 2 294 Whisper1 , Yesterday 7:14pm75 Books Challenge for 2009 : pwaite's 2009 book challenge 149 alcottacre , Yesterday 1:16pm75 Books Challenge for 2009 : ejj's 75-book challenge for 2009 145 alcottacre , Yesterday 12:59pmBook talk : What book did you just finish?Like?Dislike?Best?Worst? 50 susiesharp , Yesterday 9:26am100 Books Challenge for 2009 : seekingflight's 100 in 2009 81 seekingflight , Yesterday 4:33amHistorical Fiction : When Are You Now? (continued further still) 245 FicusFan , Yesterday 2:23amI want to read that! : FicusFan's Wishlist 98 FicusFan , Yesterday 1:47am75 Books Challenge for 2010 : Loosha's List for 2010 5 loosha , Thursday 1:33pm50 Book Challenge : bonniebook's Best of Your Best, 2009 350 spacepotatoes , Thursday 12:32pm50 Book Challenge : stephxsu's 99 for '09 Challenge 181 stephxsu , Thursday 2:39am75 Books Challenge for 2009 : DonnaReads through the 2nd Half of 2009 310 Donna828 , Wednesday 3:04pm1010 Category Challenge : Chatterbox's 1010 Challenge 24 Chatterbox , Wednesday 12:49pm50 Book Challenge : Kristen's 50+ in 2009 16 kgramer , Wednesday 10:52am50-Something Library Thingers : What are you reading in 2009 #2 145 LisaCurcio , Wednesday 10:42am50 Book Challenge : On the way to 50 267 Rebeki , Wednesday 4:28am75 Books Challenge for 2009 : "jdthloue"'s pitiful attempt 119 cameling , Tuesday 11:21pm75 Books Challenge for 2009 : brenzi's 75 book challenge just for fun 191 Whisper1 , Tuesday 10:43pm50 Book Challenge : AMQS' 2009 Challenge 202 sydamy , Tuesday 6:44pm50 Book Challenge : sydamy's 50+ book challenge for 2009 145 bonniebooks , Tuesday 4:38pm50 Book Challenge : SusanJ's 50 book challenge for 2009 105 AMQS , Tuesday 1:04pm250 book challenge : Bucketyell's 250-book challenge 19 bucketyell , Monday 10:49pm50 Book Challenge : karspeak's 3rd go in 2010 2 randjtoday , Monday 9:25pm999 Challenge : OneMorePage's 999 List 7 VictoriaPL , Monday 2:13pm999 Challenge : LittleTaiko's 93 LittleTaiko , Sunday 6:39pm999 Challenge : Detailmuse ... 203 detailmuse , Sunday 2:54pm50 Book Challenge : Katie Parker's : January 1, 2009 - January 1, 2010 75 mrskatieparker , Sunday 9:06amLibrarians who LibraryThing : Book Club Suggestions 14 Patient , Sunday 3:05amAudiobooks : What Are You Listening to Now? Part 5 326 ktleyed , December 18Book talk : Favorite Books Read in 2009 16 Sandydog1 , December 18Fifty States Fiction (or Nonfiction) Challenge : Copper's Cross Country Ramble 15 coppers , December 1875 Books Challenge for 2009 : Monthly Bests 43 allthesedarnbooks , December 17Book talk : Books Told by Multiple Character Points of View 33 marcejewels , December 1675 Books Challenge for 2009 : orangeena's chapter 2 127 alcottacre , December 1550 Book Challenge : brenzi 178 brenzi , December 15Fifty States Fiction (or Nonfiction) Challenge : Clue's Armchair Travels 7 clue , December 12BookMooching : On-going question, please date. What are you reading now? 183 CFiveSix , December 875 Books Challenge for 2009 : Rowan13's 2009 Reads 43 alcottacre , December 850 Book Challenge : My Challenge 3 bonniebooks , December 775 Books Challenge for 2009 : mrstreme's 75+ in '09 219 alcottacre , December 7ARC Junkies : Top 5 ARC's of 09 (so far) 11 Belladonna1975 , December 3What Are You Reading Now? : What are you reading the week of November 21, 2009? 227 Glorybe1 , December 250 Book Challenge : my book list 135 girlunderglass , November 29Girlybooks : PW'S Top Ten List and Our Own Top Books 10 rebeccanyc , November 27What Are You Reading Now? : What Are You Reading the Week of November 14, 2009? 178 slarsoncollins , November 23Historical Fiction : New , first books 50 cnposner , November 19What Are You Reading Now? : What Are You Reading the Week of October 31, 2009? 201 teelgee , November 7What Are You Reading Now? : 2009 - Your Best Five Reads of Q3 (July -Sept) 79 bibleeohfile , November 275 Books Challenge for 2009 : Book Challenge 2009: Bridget770's List 129 alcottacre , November 2Fifty States Fiction (or Nonfiction) Challenge : detailmuse's Bookish America 19 detailmuse , October 25What Are You Reading Now? : What Are You Reading the Week of October 17, 2009? 184 PaperbackPirate , October 2475 Books Challenge for 2008 : brenzi joins 75 Book Challenge for fun 7 brenzi , October 17What Are You Reading Now? : What Are You Reading the Week of October 10, 2009? 182 teelgee , October 1775 Books Challenge for 2009 : ladywithabook's 2009 reads 77 FlossieT , October 12What Are You Reading Now? : What Are You Reading the Week of October 3, 2009? 227 Mr.Durick , October 10What Are You Reading Now? : Your Best Reads of the Second Quarter (April - June 2009) 54 dchaikin , October 575 Books Challenge for 2009 : legxleg 2009 reading 208 legxleg , October 3What Are You Reading Now? : Book Brought Home - September 2009 215 jdthloue , October 2BookMooching : A Book Search Among Friends - August - September 2009 50 geophile , September 29The Green Dragon : September Reads 2009 91 calm , September 22999 Challenge : MelBurnett's 999 challenge 26 burnett , September 16999 Challenge : bonniebook's 999 challenge, Turn to Chapter 2 115 RidgewayGirl , September 1350 Book Challenge : bonniebook's 50 book challenge in 2009, chapter 2 265 nannybebette , September 1375 Books Challenge for 2009 : Womansheart Joins the 75/2009 Challenge 255 womansheart , September 11What Are You Reading Now? : What Are You Reading the Week of August 29, 2009? 247 teelgee , September 550 Book Challenge : Mark's (MSF59) 303 msf59 , September 375 Books Challenge for 2009 : petermc (Peter) - 75 in 2009 - Part 2 304 petermc , September 2What Are You Reading Now? : Book Brought Home - August 2009 165 Bridget770 , September 1The Green Dragon : August Reads 2009 181 Billion , September 1Fifty States Fiction (or Nonfiction) Challenge : Mississippi books 6 sjmccreary , August 31What Are You Reading Now? : What Are You Reading the Week of August 22, 2009? 268 FicusFan , August 29999 Challenge : bell7's 195 bell7 , August 2850 Book Challenge : bell7's 81-ish challenge in 2009 209 bell7 , August 26What Are You Reading Now? : The Gathering Place -- 2009 thread #7 244 koalamom , August 9The Green Dragon : The All-New Happy/Unhappy thread (continued) 451 evedeve , August 8What Are You Reading Now? : What are you reading the week of July 25, 2009? 226 Arten60 , August 875 Books Challenge for 2009 : reading list 17 saffyre2 , August 2What Are You Reading Now? : Books Brought Home - July 2009 228 rolandperkins , August 1What Are You Reading Now? : What are you reading the week of July 18, 2009? 274 morriss003 , July 3175 Books Challenge for 2009 : SqueakyChu's - 301 SqueakyChu , July 11What Are You Reading Now? : What is the Best Book you've read so far this year --2009 78 dchaikin , June 25What Are You Reading Now? : What You Are Reading the Week of 6-12 June 2009 228 bookymouse , June 14Book talk : Southern fiction 17 faerydust1023 , June 14What Are You Reading Now? : What Are You Reading the Week of 30 May, 2009? 231 FicusFan , June 8999 Challenge : Snash's 999 challenge 17 snash , June 2999 Challenge : APRIL 2009: What Are You Reading? 97 RidgewayGirl , April 29Author Chat : Stefan Merrill Block, author of The Story of Forgetting (April 13-24) 33 stefanmerrillblock , April 24
Congrats on reaching 75! I'm due to read The Help next for my local book club, so I'm glad to hear that you liked it. See you 2010!
>101 Stasia, I think my enjoyment of The Help was enhanced by listening to it in such close proximity to Their Eyes Were Watching God. I'd move it up if I were you.
>102 Bonnie, that's interesting because one of the things that impressed me about the book was how protective a few of the ...
I've got The Help coming up for my RL book club in February. I have relatives in the South who will also say that their Black "help" is just like family, so I'm very interested to read the book.
... 'hate it' camp on The Shack. Twenty-five pages in I threw it at the wall - and it was a library book!
I already have The Help in the BlackHole. I definitely need to get to that one next year. Thanks for the reminder, Terri.
... Much Happiness by Alice Munro
4. The Winter Vault by Anne Michaels
5. Through Black Spruce by Joseph Boyden
6. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
7. The Retreat by David Bergen
8. The Given Day by Denis Lehane
9. The Girls by Lori Lansens
10. Late Nights on Air by Elizabeth ...
... to feel the insidious itch of shameless self-promotion, and that knocked it down a notch. A good solid *meh*.
63. The Help by kathryn Stockett. Absolutely wonderful. It has been highly recommended by many others, so you know the story. I was blown away by my connection with the ...
84. The Help by Kathryn Stockett (18/10/09)
The book tells the story of Skeeter, a university graduate who returns to her hometown in Mississippi in 1962, and the black maids she interviews about their lives as ‘the help’ to her friends, in the hopes of establishing her own career as a ...
... next years challenge so we don't miss it.
Happy reading a have a great vacation in PR, I'm so jealous! Outlander and The Help are very different books, but each very good and easy enough reads for vacation books. You know, the kind that don't take intense concentration to follow.
I'm glad you enjoyed Leviathan and Just Listen; both are by very talented YA authors, so yay! And The Help and Outlander are definitely going with me to Puerto Rico in January. Looking forward to discussing books with you next year as well!
I've heard about Knots and Crosses -- I will have to add it to my list. I loved The Help -- I read it in the middle of my semester, ignoring all school work because I couldn't put it down. I've also had Outlander in my pile for awhile. Maybe I'll move it up!
I'm reading The Help and I'm 2 1/2 chapters in and so far...I LOVE IT!
... '05-'07) from my TBR pile
4. Read Middlemarch
My top 3 reads from 2009 were Out of Africa, Half the Sky, and The Help , and I hope to have many more great reads this year! Happy reading to all...
... so I will be interested in seeing what you have to say about some of your choices. I would definitely recommend bumping The Help up the list because it is a great read. :)
... Barry
9. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
10. Between the Assassinations by Aravind Adiga
Bonus book: The Help by Kathryn Stockett
... good reading year. The first five listed probably were my favorites.
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Letters to a Young Teacher by Jonathan Kozol (non-fiction)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
...
#141: I have The Help in the BlackHole. It looks like I need to bump it up some!
... read:
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Animals Make Us Human by Temple Grandin
The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti
*The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Stitches by David Small
*Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro
A Rule Against Murder by Louise Penny
edited to * top 5 fiction reads. ...
... Loved it. Wonderful characters, wonderful concept. wonderful ending!
Also will recommend January's book club selection, The Help , by Kathryn Stockett. Don't know what's happening with my book club these days, picking books I enjoy! This one is set in Jackson, Mississippi, in the early 1960s ...
... source material is so rich. I can't wait to read the next two books. Although . . . a couple of other things first:
55. The Help by Kathryn Stockett. Another winner from my book club, what is the world coming to? Fascinating story about a recent graduate from Ole Miss in the early 1960s. Skee ...
My top reads this year:
* The Help by Kathryn Stockett
* To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
* Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
* When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
* The New Policeman by Kate Thompson
Plus
Dear Enemy by Jean Webster
The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko ...
... Hunger Games* by Suzanne Collins
Fingersmith* by Sarah Waters
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo* by Stieg Larsson
The Help * by Kathryn Stockett
Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese
Those who Save Us by Jenna Blum
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
The Given Day by Dennis L ...
OK, kicking and screaming to narrow it down to twelve.
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak*
The Help by Kathryn Stockett*
The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent*
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters*
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie*
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little ...
My Top Five:
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese*
Lark and Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips*
The Help by Kathryn Stockett*
The Well and the Mine by Gin Phillips*
The Given Day by Dennis Lehane*
Runners-up:
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
Last Night in Twisted ...
... I get started on my 2010 books.
Using only books read this year, answer the following:
Describe yourself -- The Help
How do you feel? -- Lush Life
Describe where you live -- Property
If you could go anywhere, where would you go? -- Small Island
...
72. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
I also found this book because of LT chatter. Unlike The Cellist of Sarajevo, however, I also quite loved this book. I downloaded it to my mp3 player from the library digital collection. I didn't realize until I started the book that it had three readers--one ...
The Help
My audio version of The Help does have multiple readers, and so far, so good. Speaking of WONDERFUL audiobooks, I would thoroughly recommend that everyone get a copy of Rudy Dee reading Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. I haven't been so affected by an audiobook since my ...
Regarding the audio version of The Help . I'll be curious to hear if your version also has multiple readers and how you like it. I grew up in the country in the Pacific Northwest. The world described in The Help is nearly as foreign to me as Gone with the Wind even though it is contemporary ...
... urging of my teenaged nieces. I can see why the teens love it, but not my cup of tea. And I'm picking up my audiobook of The Help from the library tomorrow!
I'm reading Happiness Makeover by M.J. Ryan and listening to The Help by Kathryn Stockett. I'm enjoying both very much. The audio version of The Help I'm listening to has different readers for each of the narrators. Very enjoyable.
67. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
I know there is lots of love surrounding this book and it is worthy of all of it. What an engrossing, heart wrenching book. For those unfamiliar with it, it is about black "help" and their white employers, in Mississippi in the early 1960's.
I was truly ...
... look back on your postings, the titles will trigger some good, snuggly memories with your girls. Happy reading!
P.S. Help was one of my favorite reads this year and I'm really looking forward to Half Broke Horses since reading The Glass Castle.
... Sara Gruen
40. A Mercy by Toni Morrison
41. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
42. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
43. The Sugar Camp Quilt by Jennifer Chiaverini
44. A Model Summer by Paulina Porizkova
45. The Right Address by Carrie ...
...
The Indifferent Stars Above by Daniel James Brown (NF?)
June:
The Given Day by Dennis Lehane (F)
July:
The Help by Kathryn Stockett (F)
The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop by Lewis Buzbee (NF)
August:
Roxanna Slade by Reynolds Price (F)
September:
The Hummin ...
... by Curtis Sittenfeld
3. Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear -the whole series of 6!
4. Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
5. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
6. Consequences by Penelope Lively
7. People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
8. When the Emperor was Divine by Julie Otsuka
9. The Ho ...
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Its told by a few different characters and is a really good book too!
Two books which would lead to great discussion are
The Help by, Kathryn Stockett
People of the Book by, Geraldine Brooks
Both are available in paperback.
... just what I read this year.
Favorite books I read in 2009
Adult Books:
The People of the Book by, Geraldine Brooks
The Help by, Kathryn Stockett
Nefertiti & The Heretic Queen by, Michelle Moran
An Echo in the Bone by, Diana Gabaldon
The Historian by, Elizabeth Kostova
The Sh ...
256. The Help by Stockett
257. House of Reckoning by Saul
258. Sonata for Miriam by Olsson
259. The Hadrian Memorandum by Folsom
260. Number Freak by Niederman
261. A Christmas Carol by Dickens
262. Winter Ghosts by Mosse
... Sara Gruen
40. A Mercy by Toni Morrison
41. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
42. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
43. The Sugar Camp Quilt by Jennifer Chiaverini
44. A Model Summer by Paulina Porizkova
45. The Right Address by Carrie ...
... Sara Gruen
40. A Mercy by Toni Morrison
41. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
42. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
43. The Sugar Camp Quilt by Jennifer Chiaverini
44. A Model Summer by Paulina Porizkova
45. The Right Address by Carrie ...
... Sara Gruen
40. A Mercy by Toni Morrison
41. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
42. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
43. The Sugar Camp Quilt by Jennifer Chiaverini
44. A Model Summer by Paulina Porizkova
45. The Right Address by Carrie ...
I finished The Help this weekend and started Wicked. Both books are for my book club. I found The Help really disturbing. It was satisfying but disturbing because I suspect so much of it is based in reality. I also found the behavior of the women in the story a bit juvenile at best. I ...
... Sara Gruen
40. A Mercy by Toni Morrison
41. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
42. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
43. The Sugar Camp Quilt by Jennifer Chiaverini
44. A Model Summer by Paulina Porizkova
45. The Right Address by Carrie ...
... (The Johnny Maxwell Trilogy) by, Terry Pratchett..Been meaning to read this one for awhile.
From my library I recommend The Help by, Kathryn Stockett..This was a really good book!
Looks like I'm in for some good reading coming up. I'm next on the library list for The Help and added Wolf Hall last week. Hopefully they don't both come available at the same time.
While waiting for those, I picked up and have just started The Strain. Anyone read it?
With ...
So glad to hear you loved The Help too, Louanne. It was one of my favorites this year, if not my favorite. On a related note, I just watched Mississippi Burning today--such a good movie!
So, what was your favorite book this year? Do you have one? I wasn't as fond of The Elegance of the Hed ...
... My Jim by Nancy Rawles. It sounds wonderful. Your comments about the memory quilt have me intrigued. Since reading The Help , someone on my thread mentioned To Kill A Mockingbird, which I've not read as an adult. That one, and My Jim, will go on my TBR.
Thanks so much for your rec of ...
... Busy, busy days. So much catching up to do on all of your threads.
I was so happy to reach #50, and Kathryn Stockett's The Help was simply wonderful. Sometimes you think you know all there is to know about the South in the 1960s. Wrong. The characters were convincing and by the end, I felt I ...
... also wonderful. Doesn't it feel terrific to reach that goal??? What will you read next??? You had been thinking of reading The Help ? I say....go for it.....that book was fabulous!
... Amazon has just reduced its price for Wolf Hall to $11.75 and you can get it used for $8.99. I was amazed when I saw The Help for sale for $10.50 through them. They must be trying to compete with Costco and Walmart. I've never seen hardcovers for such low prices. Hold out a little ...
Well, The Help was the only book I bought as a hardbound, but I waited a month and still got it used. I'm hoping I'll be able to find a used copy of Wolf Hall pretty soon as I don't think I'll be able to wait until next fall to read it with all these rave reviews.
... Sara Gruen
40. A Mercy by Toni Morrison
41. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
42. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
43. The Sugar Camp Quilt by Jennifer Chiaverini
44. A Model Summer by Paulina Porizkova
45. The Right Address by Carrie ...
... I, for one, am enjoying the lush, slowly unfolding story.
This is one of only two hardcover books I've bought this year (The Help was the other) and I really do feel like I'm getting my money's worth! I have a feeling that when I do finish, I just might wish it would go on and on.
1)What book did you just finish?The Help by, Kathryn Stockett
2)Did you like it or dislike it? I really enjoyed it it was a good story
3)What did you like best? I enjoyed the realization of some of the "bosses" that their help are just people too.
4)What was the worst part of the book? ...
... Now for book #50!!!! I am not to sure what that is going to be, I have Crow Lake by Mary Lawson and would like to read The Help so I don't know.....
... Again. So decided to just read the whole book from cover to cover and hope to learn lots about cooking. Am deep into The Help as well.
50. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
This is the part where my 4 year-old would say, 'YIPPEE YAY YAY!!! I finally finished my #50 book, and it was the most AMAZING book ever.
More to come....
I just finished The Help by Kathryn Stockett. Before that I finished the 6th Sookie Stackhouse novel by Charlaine Harris. Not sure yet what I'll pick up, next..
I already have The Help in the BlackHole, but I am adding Night Battles as well. Thanks for the reviews and recommendations.
I guess this is book 5 of the year:
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
One in a line of Southern novels featuring "spunky" women....in this case, two black maids and a white college girl, returned home with "no prospects" (i. e. without a husband in sight). What sets this story apart from the ...
I finally finished The Night Battles....and read The Help as well...reviews will follow but i had dental work done yesterday and am a bit woozy.....'-/
have a nice little stack of books from which to pick my next victim.....
... Stood Still by Cathy Marie Buchanan
Wilderness by Samantha Harvey
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
That's without even trying very hard. And the ones I haven't gotten to yet that I'm sure will be on the list, i.e. Wolf Hall, Lark ...
Loved The Help and this is her first published novel! Unbelievable.
... Sara Gruen
40. A Mercy by Toni Morrison
41. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
42. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
43. The Sugar Camp Quilt by Jennifer Chiaverini
44. A Model Summer by Paulina Porizkova
45. The Right Address by Carrie ...
The Help has definitely been my favorite read of 2009. And this week I got into my way back machine and listened to Sissy Spacek narrate To Kill a Mockingbird. If I read this before, it was so long ago that I'm not sure if I ever read it or I'm just remembering the excellent movie. So here I ...
DeltaQueen I really did enjoy it!
Now I am in the not so distance past 1962 Jackson Mississippi in The Help by, Kathryn Sockett
... Sara Gruen
40. A Mercy by Toni Morrison
41. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
42. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
43. The Sugar Camp Quilt by Jennifer Chiaverini
44. A Model Summer by Paulina Porizkova
45. The Right Address by Carrie ...
... Sara Gruen
40. A Mercy by Toni Morrison
41. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
42. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
43. The Sugar Camp Quilt by Jennifer Chiaverini
44. A Model Summer by Paulina Porizkova
45. The Right Address by Carrie ...
I'm listening to The Help by, Kathryn Sockett multiple narrators pretty good so far!
... Sara Gruen
40. A Mercy by Toni Morrison
41. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
42. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
43. The Sugar Camp Quilt by Jennifer Chiaverini
44. A Model Summer by Paulina Porizkova
45. The Right Address by Carrie ...
Thanks everyone. The Help is proving to be most enjoyable. Of course, I knew it would be, based on all the recommendations. It is so well-written I can hear the sweet southern voices in my head.
>219 That's funny! I have no idea what's next after Disneyland! All year I was hoping to get close ...
Such a great book for your 50th, Louanne! The Help was in more people's Top Ten than any other book (at least in the lists that I got). I feel like I've already told you this. Congrats on reaching your goal. What are you going to do next after your "I'm going to Disneyland!" moment?
Great choices for both your #50's. I'll have to go back and look to see what I chose. Louanne, I think The Help had the most overlapping recommendations when I alphabetized everybody's Top Tens of 2009. It was one of the few hardbound books that I bought this year, though I did wait until I ...
Congratulations on reaching 50 LouAnne and great choice for your 50th! Loved The Help . I am finishing up #49 and then on to my 50th for which I've chosen The Cellist of Sarajevo.
Great choice for your 50th Louanne!! I hope you enjoy The Help as much as I (and many others here) did!
THE BIG FIVE-OH!!!!
Currently reading: 50. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
I think Cellist is a great choice for milestone Book #50. I'm also reading my #50, and I selected The Help which came fully loaded with high praises from everyone. Can't wait to hear your thoughts on Cellist.
I finished 5 books on vacation:
The Help
South of Broad
Mothers and Sons
"The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest"
Married to a Bedouin
I have nothing new to add to the various reviews on first 2 books.
I loved Mothers and Sons. The way Toibin describes Ireland is ...
I had an incredible vacation in the Middle East and an added bonus was finishing 5 books:
80. The Help : Good book set in Jackson, MS during the 1960’s. The story is interesting and well-written. It centers around a white woman who writes a book with various black maids. The book tells the ...
Louanne
I know 50 books, I am getting excited about it that I did it!!! The Help sounds like a great book, I tried to get it at the libary but it was out. Maybe that is the one for me also. Yes my library uses that system. It has lots of titles and it is very easy to ues.
Heidi....
You are approaching 50!!!! Have you picked out a guaranteed great book for #50??? I am going to read The Help .
As far as audio books go...it wasn't working for me, but if it would make doing the dishes more fun, then maybe I should try again!!!! HA!
Our libraries must be on ...
>128 Indeed!
Currently: Grimm Reality by Kelly Hale and Simon Bucher-Jones
Starting tomorrow: The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Technically currently reading but on a break: A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray (still!), City of Masks by Mary Hoffman, and Silent in the Grave by Deanna ...
... and seeing her name bandied about in here.
Tomorrow Kathryn Stockett will be here reading and signing her new book The Help . I won't be able to attend that signing so have a friend who has been kind enough to take my copy along with her and get it signed. I can't believe that there ...
October 2009
56. Remember the time - Annette Reynolds
57. The help - Kathryn Stockett (book club)
58. This is where I leave you - Jonathan Tropper
... Sara Gruen
40. A Mercy by Toni Morrison
41. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
42. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Still working on:
The Other Queen by Philippa Gregory
The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
... by Jhumpa Lahiri ****
33. That Old Cape Magic by Richard Russo ****
34. Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay ***
35. The Help by Kathryn Stockett *****
36. Brooklyn by Colm Toibin ****
37. Mudbound by Hillary Jordan ****1/2
38. The Day the Falls Stoof Still by Kathy Marie Buchanan * ...
Just off the op of my head, three that stand out are: The Help The Piano Teacher and The Crying Tree
... by Jhumpa Lahiri ****
33. That Old Cape Magic by Richard Russo ****
34. Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay ***
35. The Help by Kathryn Stockett *****
36. Brooklyn by Colm Toibin ****
37. Mudbound by Hillary Jordan ****1/2
38. The Day the Falls Stoof Still by Kathy Marie Buchanan * ...
OK, that list was way too long! I've deleted it. If anyone wants the alphabetized list, tell me and I'll send it to you.
Massachusetts: The Good Thief 3/09
Michigan: Stitches: A Memoir 11/09
Minnesota
Mississippi: The Help 4/09
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire: Labor Day 8/09
New Jersey
I haven't been reading much, or on LT much, as I've been busy with school, but I did manage to read The Help by Kathryn Stockett last week. This week I'm rereading A Tree Grows in Brooklyn in short little snatches for book club.
... of the Dog in the Night-Time.
And I've taken the advice of Bonnies x2 and Book 50, when I get there, will be.....The Help . I've heard such great things, I know I'll love it!
I second the recommendation of The Help . (I haven't read Small Island yet.) I looked at the books that you gave the most stars too this year and I think you will really like it. No, I take that back; I know you'll love it! I think you'd like Mudbound too which is already in ...
Hu neighbor,
"a FANTASTIC book for #50 - I'll give a nudge to The Help by Kathryn Stockett or Small Island by Andrea Levy, two of my favorite reads this year.
Just finished The Help which I very much enjoyed. A very good book.
I don't have time to read -- I suffered from severe lack of motivation this week. I requested The Help from the library after you had read it... joined a looooong waitlist. Then I forgot to freeze my hold, so when it was my turn, I had to read it or get back on the waitlist. My plan was to ...
49. The Help by Kathryn Stockett. Wow, what a terrific book! I could not put it down. Bonnie, I'm pretty sure you recommended it -- thank you!
... writing guides are primarily cheerleading. This has that but also some helpful strategies and ideas. Now I'm well into The Help and am absolutely loving it.
... Other Things She Taught Me Along the Way by Ruth Reichl
FICTION 3
The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Selected Short Stories by William Faulkner
POETRY 2
The Poet's Corner by John Lithgow
Ballistics: Poems by Billy Co ...
... does. My five favorite reads of this quarter in the order that I read them:
1. Small Island by Andrea Levy
2. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
3. The Great Santini by Pat Conroy
4. Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
5. The Hummingbird's Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea
#61 - What a delightful mistake I made. One night after too many glasses of wine I accidentally ordered The Help on my Kindle. While the Amazon people are nice and give you an option to retract your order I decided to try my luck and see what I got. I'm so glad I did too. The story of two ...
... de los Santos from Barnes and Noble (thanks to a birthday gift card) Also received South of Broad by Pat Conroy and The Help by Kathryn Stockett as birthday gifts, and also had an ARC in the mail - The Glassblower of Murano. What a great week!!
... of posting a review....it's fabulous, and will certainly give you a good picture of low-country SC.
Haven't readThe Help yet, but it is on the TBR/wishlist.
Updated the list to include my New York read. What next? Both South of Broad and The Help are saying pick me, pick me!
chelonianmobile- I have a copy of The Help you could borrow, and if you can get it back to me by December or January that is fine!
Does anyone have a copy of The Help by Kathryn Stockett? It's on several hundred wishlists and on hold at the local library for the next several months. I need it for a class, so if you wanted it back I could probably return it at the beginning of December . . . My other option is The Notebook. ...
... of a Common Reader - Anne Fadiman
The Yiddish Policemen's Union - Michael Chabon
Mudbound - Hillary Jordan
The Help - Kathryn Stockett
The Coroner's Lunch - Colin Cotterill (It surprised me that I liked it so much, considering I don't usually read crime fiction/mysteries ...
... I can stretch only one of the books to education -- the three-dimensional alphabet, ABC3D. And two toward writing -- The Help involves a writing project and Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life made me want to drop everything and write my own version.
Stitches and The Help are my WOW! ...
... Top 10 from my 999 so far … in an approximation of preference:
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Stitches by David Small
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
Cutting for Stone by Abrah ...
From Audible.com:
The White Queen by Philippa Gregory
Nights of Rain and Stars by Maeve Binchy
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
... faves so far:
1.A Thread of Grace - Mary Doria Russell
2. The Colony of Unrequited Dreams - Wayne Johnston
3. The Help - Kathryn Stockett
4. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo - Steig Larsson
5. Elegance of the Hedgehog - Muriel Barbery
6. The Plague of Doves - Louise Erdric ...
>73, Me too! I don't normally buy hardbounds, but couldn't wait for Help to come out in paperback, so I would go to B & N and read a few chapters at a time--not a particularly satisfying way to read a book like this, plus I felt so cheap. ;-) Finally found a used copy and am looking ...
51. The Help by Kathryn Stockett. LOVED this! I only got it yesterday and I've binge-read it, but it was such a compelling story, and the voices of all the characters were so different. Definitely recommended.
... read, and I managed to sit outside until quite late last night, because it was such a lovely day here.
I just picked up The Help from the library, and read the first chapter on the bus home. I love it so far - I think I can see the way the afternoon is shaping up! And I should shortly have ...
... - Elizabeth Brundage
33. Still Alice - Lisa Genova
34. Thirteen Reasons Why - Jay Asher
35. Guilt - GH Ephron
36. The Help - Kathryn Stockett
37. The Spellman Files - Lisa Lutz
38. The Geometry of Sisters - Luanne Rice
39. Tell No One - Harlan Coben
40. Dead Until Dark - Cha ...
Please, please, please, get your hands (ears) on a copy of The Help by Kathryn Stocokett, which is read by multiple readers (all excellent, and all in distinct southern dialect and styles). The story revolves around a white college educated southern woman who begins to understand the plight ...
I finished The Help yesterday and I just loved it. I started Guns, Germs and Steel and so far it is very interesting.
... The Graveyard Book over the weekend and loved it.
:o)
I also read Letter to a Christian Nation and I have started The Help .
... Snow Falling on Cedars and loved it. My book club did not feel the same. Most thought it as too slow.
I'm starting The Help this weekend in preparation for the Decatur Book Festival next weekend. I'm also working on Gertrude Bell.
... Temple Grandin
The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
Columbine by Dave Cullen
The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Homer's Odyssey by Gwen Cooper
Jim the Boy by Tony Earley
Labor Day by Joyce Maynard
When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
...
Well, bell, I loved The Help , Housekeeping vs. Dirt and the Maus books too, and the Last Lecture by Randy Pausch was inspiring as well as a real tear-jerker. Don't think I have to read his book though--does it include more than his lecture? Labor Day sounds like a good book for me--love ...
...
1. Award winners - The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing Volume 1 and Jellicoe Road TIED
2. New (to me) authors - The Help by Kathryn Stockett
3. Books about books, reading, or writing - The Pleasure of Reading and Housekeeping vs. The Dirt TIED
4. Other nonfiction - The Last Lec ...
My faves from the past 4 years, in no particular order:
FICTION
The Help
Out of Africa
The Handmaid's Tale
Peace Like a River
Sunshine (this was vampire fluff but I loved it)
The Power of One
NONFICTION
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Three Cups of Tea
My Life in France
Omnivore' ...
... reads for the year on my Profile. So far, I have eight books listed.
I share Lark and Termite with Mark (msf59), The Help with bell7, and The Given Day and Mudbound with sydamy.
I love lists, but won't be posting my Top Ten until the end of the year because who knows what I'll ...
... Heather Barbieri
5.Deafening by Frances Itani
6.The Curious Incident of the boy in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
7.The Help by Kathryn Stockett
8.Balzac and the little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
9.Small Island by Andrea Levy
10The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
... for the year so far in no particular order (I read a lot of YA so you'll find that a few of these are teen reads):
1. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
2. Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson
3. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing Volume 1 by M.T. Anderson
4. Jellicoe Road by Melin ...
... around to friends and family as it is something most families deal with at one time or another.
And I can't wait to read The Help . Bonnie gives good recx, doesn't she?
Well, keep reading good books and we will keep coming back to talk about them.
catch ya later,
belva
I just picked up The Help , by Katheryn Stockett. I'm looking forward to introducing it to my book club next week on The Women's Nest. Reviews have been outstanding!
>100: suesche -- try the lower case brackets, the square ones, not the squigglies for the touchstones.
I loved The Help , such an excellent book.
I am loving Gilead, much to my surprise. But will have to put it aside to allow myself enough time to read The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier ...
#63 The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Currently living high atop the fiction best seller lists at a bookstore near you......not the usual thing I read but recommended by a friend who will persist in asking for an opinion.
The author is a child of the Deep South, writing about a time of ...
... I'm pleased that some of the books that I read long ago still hold up for new readers. And thanks for reminding me about The Help . I had actually read it in dribs and drabs when visiting various bookstores and was waiting for it to come out in paperback (Feb. 2010) to buy it, but your ...
35. *The Help (I think this rec came from bonniebook's thread...)
My second starred review of the year, hurrah! 1960's, Jackson, Mississippi, with 3 main characters: 2 Black maids and 1 Junior Leaguer. It was so well-written, the smallest plot twists kept me on the edge of my seat. And the ...
Mississippi: The Help by Kathryn Stockett (*****), see review
Best book I've read this year. Narrated from 1962 Mississippi by two black domestics (the household “help”) and a young white aspiring writer who sees ...
... y
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan -- Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (****)
Minnesota
Mississippi -- The Help by Kathryn Stockett (*****) (See review)
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshir ...
41) The Help by Kathryn Stockett ( review )
Had a coupon burning a whole in my pocket, so from B&N got:
The Help
... was a bit hard to read, just because of the subject matter, but I can see why it is so highly acclaimed.
Book 127 is The Help by Kathryn Stockett, which was my favorite of the week. The Help takes place in Jackson, Mississippi during the Civil Rights movement, and is told from the ...
... how you liked it.
>32: I've missed you, Sandy. I have a friend from high school in Jackson, MS. I e-mailed her about The Help and am waiting to hear her reaction. Btw, you got back to MO just in time to catch the more typical hot weather. :-)
Back from days of travel, time to catch up on everyone's comments. Have added The Help to the wishlist. We drove the length of Mississippi twice on our way to the Alabama coast and back. We only stopped for food and gas, but I was pleasantly surprised by everything I saw there. I'd never set ...
>19: Your experiences will make The Help even more meaningful to you. On a positive note, I was glad that Stockett included a few (very few) uplifting stories about how the whites treated their domestic help.
... Luckily, I am also currently reading The Lost City of Z, so at least I don't have to add it.
I'm anxious to read The Help . I spent a semester of college in Columbus MS in the mid-70s, and worked in the private dining hall of one of the ritzier dorms. I was one of only 3 white ...
>215: Lynda, what I did was simple. After writing my review of The Help , I just clicked on the blue "f" for Facebook icon, and, voila!, there was my entire review linked to my Facebook page. I believe this is a new feature on LT.
Have added The Help to my teetering tower. Love your thread and all the discussion!! Hugs.
Hi Donna, Great review - I thumbed it. I read The Help earlier in the year and loved it!
Adding The Help to my TBR list. Liked your review. Thanks.
... trilogy by Pamela Aidan. I thoroughly enjoyed this attempt!
Now I have that out of my system I will actually read The Help lol.
Yes, I agree with you, Donna, about Help --even though I did love it! Hilly was a bit over the top, wasn't she? Though, I have known some pretty selfish, manipulative, power-hungry women during my Guild and school co-op days. (Never friends with them though.) Problem is, in real life those same ...
... but they had emotional impacts on me that superseded everything else.
Just yesterday, I wrote a favorable review of The Help and gave it 4.5 stars. I neglected to point out that it missed 5 stars when it crossed the line with the character of Hilly, the out-of-control hate mongering Juni ...
Donna- Very good review on The Help ! I've been hearing some nice buzz on that one. BTW, send some of your readers over to my challenge but be careful of the cobwebs.. haha!!
Woo-hoo! I just posted my review of The Help on Facebook. I am either on the cutting edge of coolness -- or the biggest word nerd in the world! Anyone else tried this?
>6 & 7: Thanks, Linda and Lorie. It's good to know that someone is reading my muses.
Book No. 52: The Help by Kathryn Stockett. 4.5 stars.
Just posted my review here .
Eugenia (Skeeter) Phelan realizes that there is ...
... like) about you, I would say that you would most enjoy Half of a Yellow Sun. And, if you go back a teensy bit further: The Help is in my Top Five so far this year--and it's about jobs, right up your alley! :-)
... as 3 mistakes on one page.
I'm probably going to finish the above book in an hour or two and I will then start reading The Help by Kathryn Stockett which I have heard such good things about.
For non-fiction I am still reading Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz and that's because ...
... name you chose. If I get back to England, I'll be sure to put your inviting place on my itinerary!
My current read is The Help . Loving it so far.
ETA: the book I am reading. :-)
#58: The Help is already on Planet TBR or I would add it again. I am going to have to bump it up!
49. Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
50. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
51. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
52. Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
53. How to Steal a Dog by Barbara O'Connor
54. Looking for Red by Angela Johnson
55. A Long Way from Chicago ...
... of Sarajevo when my book club chooses books for next season -- usually in August or September. I'll also be nominating The Help , Mudbound... I still have a month or so, I know the list will get longer!
>54 re: The Help you said, 'Normally, I don't care whether people like the books I like, or whether they want to read the same book I do, but I really do hope lots of people read Help.'
That's how I feel about Cellist of Sarajevo.
And so, I will also put The Help on my ever-growing ...
Best book I've read this year -- The Help by Kathryn Stockett -- set in pre-civil rights 1962 Mississippi and narrated by two black maids (the "household help") and a young white aspiring writer.
>54: The Help was one of 3 books waiting for me at the library when I got home from vacation. So many on LT have loved it that I couldn't resist. Now....to find time to read...
The Help sounds great - thanks. I haven't seen it over here but will go and investigate the library website...
edited to add that it's on 262 other Bookmooch wishlists! eek!
Hi Bonnie!
I also absolutely loved The Help . I don't remember why, but I didn't expect to like it as much as I did, so I was pleasantly surprised.
I also loved The Outlander so I'm curious to know whether or not you liked it.
... people like the books I like, or whether they want to read the same book I do, but I really do hope lots of people read Help . I'm for sure going to recommend it to my book group once it comes out in paperback.
The Help looks wonderful -- thanks for your thoughtful comments. On to the wishlist it goes!
The Help
Oh, I'm sooooo frustrated! My book club this month is reading The Help and at the library I'm 120th in line to get it! What makes is worse is, I looked on Amazon and read the little publishers' review and a reader review, and now I really do want to read it. Book club meets in 2 weeks, so no time ...
... siana
19. Maine -
20. Maryland- Life Sentences
21. Massachusetts -
22. Michigan -
23. Minnesota
24. Mississippi - The Help
25. Missouri
26. Montana
27. Nebraska
28. Nevada
29. New Hampshire
30. New Jersey
31. New Mexico
32. New York - Brooklyn, Let The Great World Spin
33. ...
120. 2. The Help
121. 3. City of Dogs
122. 4. A Sending of Dragons
The Help
... by Jonathan Littell
3. I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
4. Letters To My Daughter by Maya Angelou
5. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
6. The Associate by John Grisham
7. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
8. Scarpetta by Patricia Cornwell
9. Vicious by ...
On my Kindle:
The Shadow of the Wind, based on LT recommendations.
Saturday
The Help
... is
all rated 5 stars.
Two rated 4.5 stars that still stand out to me are:
Furies of Calderon by Jim Butcher and
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
... that our history books didn't include this information nor did our teachers talk about it.
Right now I'm reading The Help --and still loving it--as well as The Robber Bride. The other evening I read The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks. I think you like his books and movies, Belva, ...
... I really pay attention to your reviews if you read a book that sounds like I'd be interested in it too. I'm really loving The Help too. Have you read it?
Nah! I didn't get Olive Kitteridge as an ER. Had to buy it, darn it! I tend to be pretty critical of books, so people are ...
... to do reviews, so stopped even looking at the monthly offerings. Sure would have loved to have gotten an advanced copy of The Help though, so should maybe start looking at them again.
I'm going to be reading Yesterday's Weather by Anne Enright for my bookgroup, so will probably read The G ...
... - John Medina (6/09) re-read
63. The Lucky One - Nicholas Sparks (6/27/09) :-( Biggest regret of the year!
64. The Help - Kathryn Stockett (7/02/09
65. The Outlander - Gil Adamson (7/04/09)
66. A Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers - Xiaolu Guo (7/08/09)
67. Ms. H ...
... erty
The Cellist of Sarajevo
Ex-Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Mudbound
The Help
non-fiction The Help by Kathryn Stockett
I've been sneaking down to my neighborhood Barnes & Noble to read a few chapters at a time of Help . If I get dragged out of there, I'm naming names!
Edited to add: Do you think my son would like Let the Great World Spin just because he lives in NYC? Oh, and he's a reader! He often doesn't ...
... **sneaks quietly off to get ready to go down to the neighborhood Barnes and Noble to read the next few chapters in Help and get started on Brooklyn**
... the Light by Betty J. Eadie. I felt that they were sort of kindergarten spirituality.
I am glad to see your review of The Help as it is sitting next to me awaiting its turn.
I too, am hoping that you are feeling well~
P.S. I meant to look for Lost Boy at the bookstore today, but got distracted by The Help (fantastic so far, btw). I've got so many books on my Wish List that if I don't have it with me, I can't remember any titles. Thanks for the review and reminding me again I want to read this.
Ruth
I trust your judgment...On the tbr pile goes The Help .
Finished reading The Help and enjoyed reading it so much. Compelling.
Have started on Twilight which was chosen as a light, fun read by the next convener/host of the RL book club of which I am a member. So far, so good. Smiling a lot. Remembering high school goings on. (No vamps back then, ...
Finished reading The Help and enjoyed reading it so much. Compelling.
Have started on Twilight which was chosen as a light, fun read by the next convener/host of the RL book club of which I am a member. So far, so good. Smiling a lot. Remembering high school goings on. (No vamps there, at Cle ...
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Book # 42 - The Help by Kathryn Stockett.
Civil Rights Movement, Strong Smart Women Characters, ( some minor characters not so smart, either), Good Story Telling ... this is the ...
I just finished The Help by Kathryn Stockett and it was excellent. I started A Fine Balance this morning and can tell already it is going to be great.
I haven't been able to get in step with The March by Doctorow, so I've chosen to read The Help by Kathryn Stockett.
It is definitely getting me all stirred up and then carried forward on the shoulders and in the hearts of the strong characters and the daunting tales of the maid's ...
The Help sounds great and has been getting generally fabulous reviews.
I hear great things about Ron Rash.
Cataloochee is supposed to be amazing.
I really enjoyed Whistling in the Dark, and the author has another book as well (which I haven't read yet).
I'm not sure if any of ...
...
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
The Manual of Detection by Jedediah Berry
Beat the Reaper by Josh Bazell
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Hotel On the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
The H ...
... - John Medina (6/09) re-read
63. The Lucky One - Nicholas Sparks (6/27/09) :-( Biggest regret of the year!
64. The Help - Kathryn Stockett (7/02/09
65. The Outlander - Gil Adamson (7/04/09)
66. A Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers - Xiaolu Guo (7/08/09)
67. Ms. H ...
April in review -
41. Blood and Iron by Elizabeth Bear
42. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
43. Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen by Fay Weldon
44. Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
45. The Radiation Sonnets by Jane Yolen
46. Furies of Calderon by Jim Butcher
47. Walden ...
... none of these are self-published:
The Piano Teacher by Janice Y. K. Lee (set in Hong Kong in the 1950s)
The Help by Kathryn Stockett (set in Mississippi during the 1960s, told from the perspective of two black maids and one white woman)
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and ...
... the cover (with the bed, among the trees).
Regarding topics -- this line from an editor in Kathryn Stockett's debut, The Help , resonates: "Write about what disturbs you, particularly if it bothers no one else."
Thanks for spending these days here with us!
I am currently reading The Help by Kathryn Stockett for my recommended category. So far I absolutely love it. I will post again when I am finished, but so far it is the best book I have read this year.
I am currently reading The Help by kathryn Stockett. I am only about 100 pages in so it might be too early to say this, but I love it! It might end up being one of my favorite books so far this year!
#60 and #64- I am thinking of reading In the Woods by Tana French for my 999 ...
... Look, Smell, Taste, Feel and Act the Way We Do - Sharon Moalem (5/07/09)
Mudbound - Hillary Jordan (6/06/09)
The Help - Kathryn Stockett (7/2/09)
A Boy of Good Breeding - Miriam Toews (7/20/09)
What is the What - David Eggers (8/08/09)
2. No ...
... and Gone by Charlaine Harris
Bad to the Bone by Jeri Smith-Ready
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The Winter Vault by Anne Michaels
I really hate that the books not yet published and the new books with few owners on LT have no ...
... Maria Machado de Assis
11)Old Filth by Jane Gardam READ
12)Olive Kitteridge by Elizabet Strout READ
13)The Help by Kathryn Stockett READ
14) The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson READ
15) Life of Pi by Yann Martel
... Finished 5-15
Songs of the Humpback Whale by Jodi Picoult, Finished 7-13
Twilight by Stephanie Meyer, Finished 8-20
The Help by Kathryn Stockett, Finished 9-1
Dracula The Un-Dead by Darce Stoker, Finished 11-25
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson, Finished 11-17
Gone ...
... The Elephant Keeper by Christopher Nicholson ( review )
41) The Help by Kathryn Stockett (review )
42) Sacred Hearts by Sarah Dunant (LittleTaiko in 999 Challenge : LittleTaiko's 999 Challenge (Jan 1, 2009, 2:31pm)
... Child 08/10/09 - 08/14/09 (4 stars)
8. A Foreign Affair by Caro Peacock 09/03/09 - 09/15/09 (4 stars)
9. The Help by Kathryn Stockett 09/19/09 - 09/22/09 (4 stars)
... Funke (534pp) (***)
Middlesex# by Jeffrey Eugenides (544pp) (*****)
Something Happened# by Joseph Heller (569pp)
The Help # by Kathryn Stockett (464pp) (*****)
Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann (442pp) (****)
*I changed my criterion for "long" here from 500pp to 400pp ... ...
... >(See review)
Inkheart# by Cornelia Funke (***)
Middlesex# by Jeffrey Eugenides (****)
The Help # by Kathryn Stockett (*****) (See review)
Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann (**** ...
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