The Help - who's reading this amazing book?

[Kirsty]

The Help is, without a doubt, one of my best reads. I believe that everyone who reads this will take something from it and it will stay with them - I'd like to think it has lessons for everyone who reads with an open mind. So I ask you to take this opportunity to read it as part of a group you lucky, lucky people because when I read it it was one of those rare things you want to shout from the rooftops about. Be prepared to have your socks blown off and to have your view of the world changed in an eye opening way because the issues we will cover still exist but they won't in us and we will never sit by and let them exist around us.

[Kirsty]

There are so many books out there that I very rarely find a rare gem of a book that I'd forgo reading from my, ever increasing and shockingly large, pile of books I really want to read - not only is this one of those books but I only read it last summer. So I ask you - who's with me?

[Sam (VanillaFountain)]

It is on my TBR pile have to finish F&G and read animal farm before I decide which is first out of this months :)

[Portia]

This was the one I choose for this month, and I have already finished it!

[Penjy]

I loved it. Given it to M's mum to read and she loves it to.

[Kirsty]

Penjy wrote: "I loved it. Given it to M's mum to read and she loves it to."

Portia wrote: "This was the one I choose for this month, and I have already finished it!"

Yay! I read it last summer and have given it to a friend but it was so good that I put it on my kindle. I'll skim over it tonight but it would be great if you guys hop over to the other thread and start chatting about it x

[Aimee]

I am reading it currently and it is holding my interest well, even when I'm exhausted from work. It's easy to get sucked into and create relationships with each character as it is told from the key characters' points of view. It's nice to have an insight into history as, although it is fiction, this type of subject is not approached in the UK history curriculum. I am especially intrigued, having lived in South Carolina :)

[Jo]

Finally got round to watching the film tonight, and actually forgot that they changed bits and people weren't quite as described in the book. It was brilliant anyway and I had several cries, it was still quite hard hitting.