i read The Help last week in just a couple of days. it was the best book i've read in awhile. can't wait for the movie to come out in August!



as i've said before, i am drawn to books set in the deep south and ones where the main characters are black. not sure why. this book was beautifully written and i couldn't put it down. in fact i read a majority of it on my daily walks and sitting in the carpool line waiting to pick up the kids, and stretched across the bed when i was supposed to be making it. the whole civil rights issue is so weird. so hard for me to comprehend that not many years ago things were as they were. that we live in such a culturally and ethnically diverse city makes it all the more difficult to grasp. my kids' closest friends are black and hispanic and they go to school where whites are the minority and the racial lines are nonexistent. i thank God for how far most of our nation has come on this issue in such a short time.