Help

The Help by Kathryn Stockett is just as amazing a book as everyone said it is.  I couldn't put it down.  All of the characters are so much fun and enjoyable to read.  This is the first time in a long time, though, when I am really rendered speechless over a book.  I don't know what to write about.  I'm not afraid of offending anyone by any comments I'd make; I just honestly don't know what to write about. 

Skeeter is my favorite character, but mostly because she is just so awesome.  It so cook to read about a girl who isn't the most attractive in the bunch, but yet overall, is the best and most likable character/person overall.  Out of all Skeeter's friends, Skeeter is the only one I MIGHT have been friends with, but probably not until after she'd started to realize how awful her so-called friends really are.  She was definitely part of the uppity crowd to begin with, but as her eyes began to open and she started to see them for who they really are, Skeeter started to become more likable herself.  Personally, even though it's the very thing that drove Stuart away, I think it's also the very thing that drew Stuart to Skeeter--he just didn't know what it was until she told him. 

I'm so very excited about seeing the movie.  There are quite a few things that I think will translate really well onscreen and I'm looking forward to seeing how some of these situation are handled.  I absolutely adored Celia.  Even from the start, she treated Minny as a person, and by the time we get to the part where Celia....well, you know what happens with Celia, I love her.  I don't care if she is "white trash."  I see why her husband chose her over Hilly.  Any real man would.  It's just so sad that Celia had to go friendless when she was so obviously lonely and needed even one friend.  I love that she found that friend in Minny. 

The Help deserves all the hype that's been raised over it as a novel.  I am sure the movie will be just as wonderful.  I can't believe I don't have TONS more to say about it since I enjoyed it so very much.....!

Oh.  I read a scathing review on the book recently.  I think it's in Goodreads, so if you go look at the reviews there for The Help, I think you'll see the one I'm referring to.  It talks about how Stockett obviously did not live during the time period and she so didn't know what she was writing about.  Is Stockett wrong?  I know she played a little with some details to make her story work in some places (she even admits that in her commentary at the end of the book), so why is that reviewer so negative?  I don't get it......

I did attempt to answer some of the questions at the end of the book....it would be fun to get together with some folks who have read the book and talk about those questions.....exchange answers/ideas/etc.....