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I read The Help and also saw the movie and enjoyed them both. Also, Sarah’s Key was good. I understand there is also a movie out of it but it was a limited run. My friend saw it and said it was excellent.
One I highly recommend is Agaat. It’s pretty long but holds your interest throughout. It’s about a woman who has a farm in Africa and takes in this little black girl with a deformed arm and trains her to be her servant. Ultimately the woman gets Lou Gehrig’s Disease (ALC?) and becomes totally dependant on Agaat, after she has treated her quite poorly throughout her life.
If you liked the Secret Life of Bees (saw that movie too), you’ll like The Queen of Palmyra. Both about poor young white girls in the older south.
I belong to a book club and we try to go see the movies of books we’ver read. So, although I think it is no longer being shown, Water For Elephants was one of my favorite. Can’t say so much about the movie but the book was really great. Used many Kleenexes.
We are selecting books for the coming year so if anyone has any really good recommendations, I’d love to hear.
She wrote a series (now) starting 20 years ago. The books are in a word "amazing" and have it all,"history, warfare, medicine, sex, violence, spirituality, honor, betrayal, vengeance, hope and despair, relationships,
the building and destruction of families and societies, time travel, moral ambiguity, voyages of daring, journeys of both body and soul…" and love.
Our book club just finished Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford. We also enjoyed The Last Child by John Hart and Shangahi Girls by Lisa See. We are also in the process of choosing our selections for the year, and am interested in hearing others’ suggestions.
and thought it was pretty good. We had read another one (can’t remember the name now) about the Japanese internments and it was really horrible what they did to those people. They lost practically all their worldly possessions (including property) and were thrown into horrible holding facilities.
Read Shanghaii Girls too and loved it. I thought it was horrible when the mother was raped. Another case of Asian people coming to America less than humanely.
I think I mentioned before The Queen of Palmyra. That was very good. We’ve read The Hunger Games and most of the club liked it, me, not so much.
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