By Sue Monk Kidd: The Secret Life of Bees
The tale of one motherless daughter's discovery of what family really means.
The tale of one motherless daughter's discovery of what family really means.
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Format: paperback
ASIN: B004S30FQ4
Publish date: 2003-02-28
Publisher: Paperback
Edition language: English
This book was full of many emotions and sweetness of Honey! I loved every minute of this book. It took it was a nice inside look of the 1960's when things were hard for the civil right movement. Lily Owens is a fourteen year old who just wants to know about her mom. Her dad isn't a dad to her. She...
My grandmother gave me this book as a gift one year (long before the movie came out). I hadn't heard much about it and thought it might be just another cookie cutter chic lit book (which I don't get that excited over) but I have a personal rule that if someone gifts me a book, I have to at least try...
I almost feel bad for giving this book three stars because the story was charming, and the main thing with the bees was kind of clever, but ultimately, the writing got in my way. Maybe I just really have a thing against first person, but it's so, so easy to fuck it up. First person may sound easy ...
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