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Just finished The Help by Kathryn Stockett.
My favorite classic book is To Kill a Mockingbird and this book had that feel to it. I mean the obivious themes are there but they don't bat you over the head or get preachy. It's just life, and the overwhelming issues that surround them are just the backdrop of their heart, and relationships and the things inside that make them the women that they are.
It was a subject that should be serious and even a bummer sometimes, but while reading it I kept smiling and laughing and thinking "you go get them".
It was more than just a book about the south in the turmoil of the civil rights era. It was a book about southern women. The pretty and the ugly, not only about how that era changed them and America, but how the everyday events made them who they were.
It is definetly worth reading.
Oh and those who like Charlaine Harris try her "grave" series it's really good. I think the first one is Grave Sight.
And if you really want to read a supernatural genre book that is well written try Women on the Otherworld series by Kelley Armstrong. She's one of my favorites. The first couple focus on werewolves but she incorporates all types of supernaturals (vampires, demons, witches, warlocks, necromancers, etc) and she had great charecter development. She has gone back and written two young adult novels written in this same world as well.
My favorite classic book is To Kill a Mockingbird and this book had that feel to it. I mean the obivious themes are there but they don't bat you over the head or get preachy. It's just life, and the overwhelming issues that surround them are just the backdrop of their heart, and relationships and the things inside that make them the women that they are.
It was a subject that should be serious and even a bummer sometimes, but while reading it I kept smiling and laughing and thinking "you go get them".
It was more than just a book about the south in the turmoil of the civil rights era. It was a book about southern women. The pretty and the ugly, not only about how that era changed them and America, but how the everyday events made them who they were.
It is definetly worth reading.
Oh and those who like Charlaine Harris try her "grave" series it's really good. I think the first one is Grave Sight.
And if you really want to read a supernatural genre book that is well written try Women on the Otherworld series by Kelley Armstrong. She's one of my favorites. The first couple focus on werewolves but she incorporates all types of supernaturals (vampires, demons, witches, warlocks, necromancers, etc) and she had great charecter development. She has gone back and written two young adult novels written in this same world as well.
I am absolutely, positively, immersed in Edward Cullen. The movie is in my Netflix queue AND I will be buying it for myself as a Hanukkah present! 
That ending sequence with Bella, James, Edward, Carlisle and Alice....WHOA!
Especially in the 4th book, he is even more amazing than your character in your short story. And your story was pretty hot.
so I picked up the first of the series at the beginning of the summer and the books are now pretty up there on the list of Bee's Favorite Things.
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