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Summary: best book in years
Review: This is the best book I have read in years, and I read a lot of books! I couldn't put it down. If you only read one book in the next year, this is the one you should pick.
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Summary: A breathtaking and amazing book
Review: This is one of the most amazing books I have read in my entire life. I found myself engrossed in this book on the 5th page. I strongly recommend this book for anybody. It was utterly amazing and beautifully, thoughtfully written.
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Summary: The Secret to Finding Love
Review: This story is a treasure for young girls and mothers alike. It's about finding a mother in anyone that is able to love you inspite of the fact that they did not give birth to you. In reading this story, there were points I thought of my own mother and what it would mean if I were like the main character. This is a touching book everyone should read.
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Summary: aloe vera
Review: Okay, first of all the author is not a communist. Secondly, the apiary does not symboloize the Kremlin. This is a modern coming of age novel, a vital literary descendent with a viral pedigree. Sue Monk Kidd writes with compelling fertile grace, literally, at times, you feel as you were the authors pen whispering across the page until her wrist cramps up and your tucked behind her ear. Flannery O'connor once remarked, "A good story, and I mean a good story, should make your big toe shoot up in your boot."...Sue Monk Kidd Makes you feel like your wearing sandals. If it wasn't for SMK Ethan Hawke never would have sharpened a pencil. Highly recommended. (By the way, Sue Monk Kidd is not a monk)
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Summary: GREAT BOOK!
Review: The Secret Life of Bees is one of the best books I've read in a long time. It's a coming of age story, but you also literally learn a little about the life of bees. Sue Monk Kidd writes so wonderfully that you almost feel like you are right there with all of the characters.
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Summary: As sweet as the Black Madonna's honey!
Review: A young white girl without a mother finds motherly love on a honey farm owned by three black sisters in Tiburon, SC, during the Civil Rights era. There, not only does she find emotional and spiritual support, she also finds her mother (in a sense) and love. In this novel, everyone is struggling to find their place in the world and relies on the other characters for support and encouragement."To love and to be loved is to feel the sun from both sides." -David Viscott
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Summary: Horrible
Review: The Secret Life of Bees has shallow characters, a predictable plot, unoriginal ideas, and trite phraseology. Ms. Kidd has a gift for words, but the story itself is totally unoriginal and uninteresting.
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Summary: Great
Review: I really liked this book. I had a fun time and was able to laugh, cry, and get mad once or twice. I think most people will be happy after having read this book. It is also a great book to read with your book group or a group of friends because there are a lot of ideas you will want to share. Thanks
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Summary: bee-u-ti-ful
Review: If you are a fourteen year old girl with a rotten father and a dead mother, it's OK to find a substitute mom. So begins a memorable emotional journey that will leave you with eyes red and swollen. Yes, the book is maudlin, as in mushy, sentimental, mawkish, and all the rest. But, make no mistake, this is not another one of those "man bad, woman good" chick reads pushed upon us during the unfortunate diversity movement of a couple of years ago.
If Sue Monk Kidd is a feminist, she is one who accepts and loves people no matter their gender or race. More important, this Kidd can flat out write. In the hands of a lesser mortal, the descriptions of life in Tiburon, South Carolina during the 1960's might seem, well, hokey. But, Kidd chooses words that can veritably walk you down Main Street, past the court house with the Confederate flag flying, past the drug store with its banana splits and cherry cokes, and the sign that says "whites only". When you finally arrive at the Black Madonna's house you meet unforgettable characters like August the queen-bee, and Zach the assistant bee-keeper, and Our Lady of the Chains. While there, you will fairly hear the honey bees, taste the honey, smell the magnolias, and feel the power of love. Yea, it's definitely schmaltzy, but it is also bee-u-ti-ful.
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Summary: Enjoyable
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed this book to the extent that it wasn't what I expected. The author played with stereotypes or the lack thereof to a degree, and while this worked sometimes for me, other times it didn't. While I admire her attempt not to stereotype African-Americans in the 1960s, I found her descriptions of cello playing and other factors distracting. The incident with the housekeeper dumping spittle on the town's worst racist's shoes was a bit too much. The writing was, however, some of the best I've come across in a while. Her use of months of the year for names for the characters was a nice touch, as was the bee motif which was woven into the story. The narrative flowed and there were actually moments of poetry. It was, overall, a sweet story that I thoroughly enjoyed--Nothing too heavy; not some gigantic piece of literature; just good fun.
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