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The Secret Life of Bees
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June 1, 2016
Finish date
June 25, 2016

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maya 🌻
Aug 16, 2017 rated it it was amazing
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Reread in 2017.

I can't imagine any other book taking this one's place as my absolute favourite 💛
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Samantha Pajor
I did not like this book, and if it wasn't June's pick for Let's Read About Feminism, I wouldn't have finished it. As I've said before in talking about this book, my biggest problem with it is that the main character, Lily, a 14-year-old white girl in 1964 South Carolina, spends the whole book slowly overcoming her racism due to the "magical" friendship of black women. I took notes on several instances that made me roll my eyes in annoyance and frustration.
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