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Post by caffeinequeen on Jan 28, 2007 0:33:57 GMT -5
I'm currently reading "The Secret Life of Bees" Has anyone read it, and if so, whatcha think? Opinions anyone? ;D
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Bina
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Post by Bina on Jan 28, 2007 7:34:35 GMT -5
I read it some time ago and loved it. The characters and story and style are great!
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Post by Dominique on Jan 28, 2007 8:08:49 GMT -5
I've heard of it a lot around the place but I don't know anything about it really, what does it have to do with?
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Isa
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Post by Isa on Jan 28, 2007 9:45:43 GMT -5
It's one of the books I got for Christmas but I haven't read it yet
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Bina
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Post by Bina on Jan 29, 2007 16:00:55 GMT -5
I´m quoting amazon because I´m lousy at summaries.
In Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees, 14-year-old Lily Owen, neglected by her father and isolated on their Georgia peach farm, spends hours imagining a blissful infancy when she was loved and nurtured by her mother, Deborah, whom she barely remembers. These consoling fantasies are her heart's answer to the family story that as a child, in unclear circumstances, Lily accidentally shot and killed her mother. All Lily has left of Deborah is a strange image of a Black Madonna, with the words "Tiburon, South Carolina" scrawled on the back. The search for a mother, and the need to mother oneself, are crucial elements in this well-written coming-of-age story set in the early 1960s against a background of racial violence and unrest. When Lily's beloved nanny, Rosaleen, manages to insult a group of angry white men on her way to register to vote and has to skip town, Lily takes the opportunity to go with her, fleeing to the only place she can think of--Tiburon, South Carolina--determined to find out more about her dead mother. Although the plot threads are too neatly trimmed, The Secret Life of Bees is a carefully crafted novel with an inspired depiction of character. The legend of the Black Madonna and the brave, kind, peculiar women who perpetuate Lily's story dominate the second half of the book, placing Kidd's debut novel squarely in the honored tradition of the Southern Gothic. --Regina Marler
I think if you liked to kill a mockingbird you´ll probably like this one, too.
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pageturner37
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Post by pageturner37 on Feb 2, 2007 11:54:02 GMT -5
ive read it last summer. i thought it was great. it has alot to do with religion too. i enjoyed it.
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lindsay
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Post by lindsay on Mar 8, 2007 11:42:09 GMT -5
Has anyone read Sue Monk Kidd's other book, The Mermaid Chair. I really dislike it and was suprised because I LOVED the Secret Lives of Bees. Has anyone read it and feel the same way?
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sagedautumn
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Post by sagedautumn on Mar 8, 2007 15:42:18 GMT -5
i read this for summer reading about two years. It was really good when it comes to summer reading i enjoyed it. As for the Mermaid Chair i know that their is a Lifetime movie based on the book with Kim Basinger
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Bina
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Post by Bina on Mar 9, 2007 8:27:47 GMT -5
Has anyone read Sue Monk Kidd's other book, The Mermaid Chair. I really dislike it and was suprised because I LOVED the Secret Lives of Bees. Has anyone read it and feel the same way? That´s exactly how I felt. Secret life of bees is just so wonderful but the mermaid chair was awful. I didn´t like the characters and couldn´t finish it.
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Michelle
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Post by Michelle on Mar 9, 2007 11:45:49 GMT -5
The Mermaid Chair is sitting on my shelf. I loved the Secret Life of Bees and I was very excited to read the Mermaid Chair - I'm was hoping it would be just as good.
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lindsay
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Post by lindsay on Mar 10, 2007 8:40:41 GMT -5
I'm sorry if we ruined it for you .
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Post by dreamer112 on Mar 11, 2007 15:47:18 GMT -5
I am reading it right now and I LOVE it. It is (so far) one of my favorite books. Sue Monk Kidd is such a great author.
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Bina
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Post by Bina on Mar 12, 2007 15:06:27 GMT -5
The Mermaid Chair is sitting on my shelf. I loved the Secret Life of Bees and I was very excited to read the Mermaid Chair - I'm was hoping it would be just as good. Oops Maybe you´ll like it much better than we did.
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dreamer112
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Post by dreamer112 on Mar 16, 2007 22:36:53 GMT -5
I finally finished it (school and sports have been SO crazy lately). I LOVED it. It was one of the best books I have read in a long time.
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rosemint
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Post by rosemint on Apr 5, 2007 12:26:55 GMT -5
Can't wait to read it!
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