I just finished the book, The Help by Kathryn Stockett. I am very happy that I read this book. I don't usually read historical fiction, but I really liked how I could learn about history in an inspiring story like The Help. It's setting is placed in the 1960's in Jackson, Mississippi. In a group of friendly white ladies, Skeeter Phelan decides to make her dream come true and become a writer by taking on the position to write about housekeeping in the local newspaper. Skeeter uses her friend's black maid, Aibileen, to help with her writing and to get the full perspective on being a maid during this time period.

As I read The Help, every chapter only continued to get better. I don't want to give any spoilers to this book, but the ending was definitely one of my favorites. Kathryn Stockett doesn't give you all the information to what happens to the characters, but she does give you enough detail to see the change and inspiration in the characters. The Help would be a unique book to have a sequel to, but I also like the details Kathryn gives you at the end to make up your own sequel.

I am happy that I saw the movie and then read the book. It's an unusual order, but now I can watch the movie again and really point out the differences between the two. It's also is always fun to see a book acted out on the big screen.

Now that we are so close to winter break, I want to talk about the books I want to read over break. I would like to read the third book in the Hourglass series, Infinityglass by Myra McEntire. I have not read the first two books in this series in a long time, so I plan on also reading those over break.

 

Below is the link to the movie trailer for The Help:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_ajv_6pUnI

I finished Growing Up Duggar over the past two weeks. The rest of the book was fantastic! I thought that this book was really interesting to read because it wasn't from the perspective of one person, but from the perspective of four people! I liked reading about multiple views on the kinds of relationships they talked about. They always seemed to connect each type of relationship they were focusing on in a chapter with the relationship(s) they had talked about or were going to talk about.

Overall, my favorite relationship to read about was having a relationship with friends. This was my favorite relationship to read about because I think it spoke well on how to treat your friends, choose them wisely, and how to even be a friend to someone you may not even be close with. These were all really good things that they pointed out.

The main idea I saw them always referring back to had to do with the connection between the type of friends you have and they kind of future you want to have. Grandma Duggar tells her grandchildren, "Show me your friends, and I'll show you your future," (Duggar 108). I think this really explains that the kind of people that you surround yourself with leads to the kind of future you'll have.

Tonight, I am going to begin reading my new book, The Help. It is the last book I chose from a genre that I do not usually read. It is a historical fiction book and I am pretty excited to read it. I saw the movie a few times and I enjoyed it a lot. I have heard that the book is even better and I am hoping to say the same.

This picture shown above is of Mrs. Duggar and Grandma Duggar.

Below is a link to the Goodreads page about The Help:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4667024-the-help?from_search=true