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178th New Thing - Read The Help

I didn't have time to post last night, therefore I'm posting this late as this occurred yesterday (Sun 4/15/12).

I finished reading The Help by Kathryn Stockett in bed last night. It released in 2009 and was a best seller for more than 100 weeks. A film adaptation of The Help was released in 2011. It takes place in the early 1960s in Jackson MS. It is about the black maids that take care of white family's homes and help raise white children. Maids aren't paid well and treated poorly. The 3 main characters are Skeeter (22 year old women that recently graduated with dreams to become a writer), Aibileen (older, wiser, black maid for Skeeter's friend), and Minny (short, fat, black maid). The 3 women come together to secretly write a book about their bosses. I enjoyed the book. I always like when books are written from first-person perspectives multiple characters. This book had chapters with Skeeter's, Aibileen's, and Minny's points of view. It took me about 3 months to read and I gave it a 4 out of 5 on Goodreads.

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