The Help in Crazy Challenge Connection

Mar 01, 2013 Chaitra rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: literary-fiction, historical-fiction, made-into-a-movie, multicultural, chick-lit, african-american-lit

I watched and loved the movie, and I've been meaning to read the book ever since. Took me a while to get there. But it was a great read, one extremely easy to read for a subject such as (the non existence of) civil rights in 1960s in Mississippi. What I really liked about the book, other than its ease of reading, was that it was told in three separate voices, and all of them were distinct.

I remember when I watched the movie that there were accusations of the same old same old white savior menta ...more

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Aug 05, 2014 Jaret rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 4-5-star-books

This was an easy-to-read novel about life in Jackson, Mississippi during the 1960s. I enjoyed the alternating viewpoints throughout the story. The characters were fully developed and entertaining. I definitely finished the novel wanting to know more about what happened to these characters. They felt very real to me. Stockett really tried to capture the fast-paced changes occurring during that time-period. Some characters kept up and some didn't. That just added to the entertainment. ...more

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Nov 26, 2012 Carissa Brown rated it it was amazing

Shelves: adult, history-historical

Loved Minni Jackson she was hilarious. It was hard to see such a tough woman be brought down by such a terrible husband. I loved Celia Foote too she tried so hard to get people to like her and she thought everyone was nice because she was.

Aibileen was a kind woman that spent her life raising white children only to have them grow up and think horrible things about her. Elizabeth was a terrible mother and poor Mae Mobley was in for a horrible life.

Skeeter was naïve but became an amazing woman in ...more

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