Here are two members to add to our list:
From Kathryn Lancaster:
Oh my gosh...how fun is this! Sandra, we read the same books just lately. Yep, Edgar Sartelle and South of Broad. Liked them both, 'cept not happy the way Edgar ended up...and a cah-raaaaazy beginning!
Mary Ruth, I've only seen To Kill a Mockingbird as a movie...need to read it, right?
Also, Karen, same with Prince of Tides, truly a favorite movie, but as we say, "the book always surpasses the movie", huh?
From Margaret Karr:
My favorite this past summer was also THE HELP. As Mary Ruth commented, I read it in one weekend. The author puts you "on the edge of your seat" to see how effective the main character's plans of attack on her victims will truly happen. I remember special people that my parents hired to take care of us during the 1950's and 60's, but we never saw the harsh treatments and rude behaviors that the author presents throughout the book; she defnitely makes her point in more ways than one can imagine with satire and pathos. THE HELP will probably be made into a motion picture soon just as The Blind Side. I highly recommend it. It's amazing to me that the author has only written a few books and lives in the Carolinas instead of the Mississippi Delta!
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The past year I have been reading, listening to, or watching the movie of stories that took place during WWII: Sara’s Key (set in France), The Zookeeper’s Wife ( in Poland), The Reader (in Germany), The Piano Teacher (in Hong Kong), Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (in Guernsey), Out Stealing Horses (in Norway). Since my history teachers, in elementary school through college, did not have time for the 20th century I have learned about the ravages of war and the impact on people in different parts of the world. This theme was a total coincidence but now that I have happened upon these books I would like to continue delving into that time period. On a lighter note, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie is a great mystery.
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