The Help: A Novel (now it's a movie!)
Why I wanted to read The Help:
I love southern literature--and this novel is "oh so Southern". So, when a friend told me about a southern novel she had just finished reading, The Help by Kathryn Stockett, my ears perked up. I discovered that my friend and I had something in common concerning our "upbringing" in Alabama: we both had someone come in "to help" our mom around the house. To our mothers, that person was "the help"; to us that person was almost a member of the family. We felt comfortable around them. We could as...

"The Help" - Novel and Movie
"The Help" A Novel of Eye Opening Discernment and Truth. Honest and Compelling
The Help is a novel of the deep south. During the 1960's, a time of unrest, civil rights, John F Kennedy and Martin Luther King. A time of inequality by either gender or race. A time of genteel living marred by unfair labor. However, The Help is also a novel of gumption. Of courage and heart. It will make you laugh and cry. You will be outraged and soothed. It is a defeat and victorious. It is the story of three women, two black and one white and all the other characters around them. Why and ...

The Help A Book Review
The Help
The Help is a fascinating, and truly interesting book that I read this year. Below, in this lens I will have my personal review of the book, and then other peoples review of the book, and what they thought of it. If you enjoy these reviews, or have read The Help, please comment below telling me your opinion on the book, and if you watched the movie as well. Thanks for reading, and please thumbs up.

The Help: A 2011 Best Selling Novel
A Review of Kathyrn Stockett's Novel
As a rule, I enjoy reading the novel much more than seeing the movie. Sometimes the characters come out in a movie the way I imagined them, and sometimes they are far off the mark. THE HELP is one of those books which is at times a laugh-out-loud funny, sobering volume focusing on a past we wish we could forget. I decided to read the book first and for now skip the movie. I must say I don't see how a movie can live up to the writing here, which I deem to be well done for a white woman who cap...