The Secret Life of Bees

[MaryAnnSingleton]

am reading this for book groyup - I love it - anyone else read it ?

Yes I read it but it was a bit sickly for me.

well I'm usually a bit hard hearted but it's worked it's charm on me !

I bought it at a charity shop and read it over half term, I thought it was lovely and a bit quirky and different. The racial tensions in the book were especially poignant in view of what has happened in America over the last weeks, culminating in Obama being elected today. It really is not so long ago that black people were actually granted the opportunity to vote.

yes, it did seem poignant,given yesterday's election results....

I read it for our book club. (What is it with book clubs and heart-string-tugging books?)

It was OK, but not that interesting, imho.

Now that I have a DD, I'd rather avoid reading books where a little girl loses her mum and then fills dead mum's gloves with cotton wool, takes them to bed and hugs them, thinking of mum's arms hugging her

I loved it.

y'know i read this, remember the title so assume it must have been godish but have no recollection what it was bout. did the girls mother vanish?

I loved it. Funnily enough, have been thinking about it a lot over the last few days! I got it free with a magazine during the summer which was great because otherwise I probably wouldn't have read it.

I really enjoyed it. Her other one, The mermaid Chair was good too.

The copy i have has book club notes in the back which go on about gender issues, strong women, etc.
I thought it was much more a historical US race thing than a gender thing.

I thought it was a lovely book

Have this on my TBR lol.

Lily's mum died when she was little and she thought she was responsible for her death DisasterArea

I have this book and I can just about remember the ending (won't post it here though). I loved it and thought it quite empowering.

Glad to have found this thread. The book's on my book group's list for 2009 and I now feel (reasonably) encouraged.

Lovely book.

Fabulous book. The film is released soon but can not remember who is in it.

The film's official website.