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The Help [message #118829] Fri, 23 July 2010 07:07 Go to next message
Mark of Lewiston is currently offline Mark of Lewiston  
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Stories of being a white socialite and aspiring writer and about two black maids and how their lives intertwined during the early 1960s in Jackson, Mississippi.

There is a lot of civil rights stuff, including the assassination of Medgar Evers and it also includes how the assassination of John Kennedy affected life in Jackson from white and black perspectives.

I needed a book to keep me awake while on my trip to and from California. I did the listening thing - 15 CDs. The book is long and detailed.

For somebody who was just a kid during that era, it was still not easy to relive what I just had heard peripherally on the evening news. Back then, we only had a single channel where I lived and TV was black and white when you could tune stuff in.

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Re: The Help [message #118830 is a reply to message #118829 ] Fri, 23 July 2010 07:25 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Hey Mark,

I downloaded "The Help" onto my iPad a few days ago. I shall be reading it shortly, I am on vacation right now and have some free time on my hands. I'll let you know how I liked it Smile
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Re: The Help [message #118940 is a reply to message #118829 ] Tue, 27 July 2010 13:55 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Hello Mark,

Halfway through "the Help" - like it very much so far. I think the $&@? Is about to hit the fan, so I have to sign out here and get back to the book Very Happy
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Re: The Help [message #119006 is a reply to message #118829 ] Fri, 30 July 2010 08:21 Go to previous message
Mark of Lewiston is currently offline Mark of Lewiston  
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Hope you enjoy the rest. I'm starting to regret ever being or agreeing to do admin. I hate offending anybody.

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