Thursday, July 12, 2012
The Language of Secrets
(Warning: May Contain Spoilers)
Once in a while a book slaps you in the face and makes you sit up straight and pay attention. In her debut novel, The Language of Secrets, Dianne Dixon weaves a complex story of Justin Fisher, a highly successful hotel manager. After ten years, Justin moves from London, with his new wife and infant son in tow, back to the family he'd been estranged from since he left the USA over a decade ago.
Through Justin, we learn of a painful past that is dug up, not when he gets married and has a child, but when he accepts a new position back near his childhood home in Sierra Madre, California. Upon his wives urging, Justin intends to rebuild the bridge he destroyed when he left all those years ago. Justin walks up to the door at 822 Lima Street, where his past begins to unravel.
You will not want to put this book down!
Saturday, June 25, 2011
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
I've been on a reading bender for the past seven months now. I've pledged to read 100 books in 364 days. Not too sure if I'll get through 100 books, as I'm only on book 37 as of today, but I've enjoyed nearly all my time spent reading.
(Warning: May Contain Spoilers)
Today, I finished The Help by Kathryn Stockett. This is a book that is gripping from page 1. It tells the tale of an unlikely friendship between a white socialite and two black maids in Jackson, Mississippi in the 1960s. Now anyone who knows anything knows that segregation was king in the 60s South, and this book offers a unique view of the forbidden intermingling of the well-liked Miss Skeeter and Aibileen, her friends' maid.
Miss Skeeter has big dreams of being a journalist in New York City. Despite her best efforts, she is stuck at her parents' home in the deep South writing for the local newspaper as a help columnist. After consulting with Aibileen on the Miss Myrna Column questions, Miss Skeeter crosses the invisible black and white line that separates the whites from the blacks and enters into an endeavor that could harm both herself, Aibileen and many other maids in the city.
Written from multiple perspectives, Stockett delivers a home run on her first novel. The #1 New York Times Bestseller "could be one of the most important pieces of fiction since To Kill a Mockingbird...If you read only one book...let this be it." (NPR.org)
(Warning: May Contain Spoilers)
Today, I finished The Help by Kathryn Stockett. This is a book that is gripping from page 1. It tells the tale of an unlikely friendship between a white socialite and two black maids in Jackson, Mississippi in the 1960s. Now anyone who knows anything knows that segregation was king in the 60s South, and this book offers a unique view of the forbidden intermingling of the well-liked Miss Skeeter and Aibileen, her friends' maid.
Miss Skeeter has big dreams of being a journalist in New York City. Despite her best efforts, she is stuck at her parents' home in the deep South writing for the local newspaper as a help columnist. After consulting with Aibileen on the Miss Myrna Column questions, Miss Skeeter crosses the invisible black and white line that separates the whites from the blacks and enters into an endeavor that could harm both herself, Aibileen and many other maids in the city.
Written from multiple perspectives, Stockett delivers a home run on her first novel. The #1 New York Times Bestseller "could be one of the most important pieces of fiction since To Kill a Mockingbird...If you read only one book...let this be it." (NPR.org)
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