Upcoming Months

If there are any that are following along with our reading list, or who have missed the last few meetings, here are the books we are reading for the next three months:

May 9 (Erin's house)
Moloka'i by Alan Brennert or Life of Pi by Yann Martel





June 6 (Jessica's house)
Any Classic novel...try searching for "best novels of all time", or "classic novels" and you will find lists of suggested titles. One member is reading The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas, and two others are reading Emma by Jane Austen!

July 11 (Billie's House)
Infidel by Aayan Hirsi Ali or The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough





Happy Reading!

April Book Club

This month's book was "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett

From Booklist
Jackson, Mississippi, in the early 1960s is a city of tradition. Silver is used at bridge-club luncheons, pieces polished to perfection by black maids who “yes, ma’am,” and “no, ma’am,” to the young white ladies who order the days. This is the world Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan enters when she graduates from Ole Miss and returns to the family plantation, but it is a world that, to her, seems ripe for change. As she observes her friend Elizabeth rudely interact with Aibileen, the gentle black woman who is practically raising Elizabeth’s two-year-old daughter, Mae Mobley, Skeeter latches ontothe idea of writing the story of such fraught domestic relations from the help’s point of view. With the reluctant assistance of Aibileen’s feisty friend, Minny, Skeeter manages to interview a dozen of the city’s maids, and the book, when it is finally published, rocks Jackson’s world in unimaginable ways. With pitch-perfect tone and an unerring facility for character and setting, Stockett’s richly accomplished debut novel inventively explores the unspoken ways in which the nascent civil rights and feminist movements threatened the southern status quo. Look for the forthcoming movie to generate keen interest in Stockett’s luminous portrait of friendship, loyalty, courage, and redemption. --Carol Haggas

Everyone agreed this was a great book - a few had trouble getting into the book, but all were sorry to put it down by the time we came to the last page. Thank you Erica for hosting this month's meeting!