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Summary: A TRES, TRES, TRES, EXCELLENT BOOK !
Review: This book is the best book i've ever read...and i'm not joking! It takes you sometime to really have everything sink in. It's not a hard book to read but everything happens soooo incredibly fast that its like "woah! what just happened?" This book is a great book to read if you've lost someone really special because it tells you that you can't just weep everyday and feel sorry for yourself, you have to overcome that and not hide behind lies all your life.
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Summary: Words to images in my mind.
Review: From the first sentence I was hooked.
The author gives depth to her characters and their surroundings.
Get this book, read it and pass it on.
It's a beautiful story.
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Summary: Praise for Secret Life...
Review: The Secret Life of Bees is an excellent novel that anyone and everyone can enjoy! This book is filled with touching and brilliant adventures that thrilled me. From beginning to end, I loved this book and its story.
Lily, the young girl in this book, has a moving and mysterious story that opens the eyes of readers. This novel shows that love can come in all shapes, sizes, and people. In the setting, African Americans are still discriminated against and thought of as "lesser." Sue Monk Kidd proves that anyone can overcome their differences and love one another. This book is a must read that will make you want to read more about Lily's life beyond her days at the calendar sisters' honey house!
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Summary: Do Not Disturb
Review: This is the book I took with me on a business trip down south. I was content to flip the Do Not Disturb sign on the door and just spend my evenings absorbed in the story. The perfect read to compliment the surroundings. I enjoyed Sue Monk's style, a very unique compelling book.
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Summary: Excellent read!
Review: I belong to a book club and I have to say that this book is one of my all time favorites. The characters are wonderful. You will not be able to put it down.
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Summary: Lovely Read
Review: This is a lovely read. It captivates you so much so that you cannot put it down. The main character is a lovable young child who steals your heart. She is left alone with an emotionless father, a simple housekeeper and a town that is less than tolerant. I definitely recommended this book.
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Summary: THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES
Review: Intelligent, sweet, poignant, strong, sad, and mystical. I loved it.
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Summary: Okay, but doesn't live up to the hype
Review: I read this book based on all the rave reviews it was getting in the press, and although it's a decent read, I think it's way overrated. It can get downright sappy in places. I think Sue Monk Kidd is a gifted writer, but her work is better aimed at the young adult crowd.
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Summary: Paradise Found
Review: One word comes to mind when I think of this novel: rich. The richness of the Southern language and settings that Ms. Kidd uses are true to those of us native to the South. This is the story of Lily, a young girl concerned with finding the truth about her mother. Is this truth what Lily feels in her heart or what her father tells her about her mother? Using the sparse clues left behind by her mother, Lily sets out to find where this truth lies. This leads her to Tiburon, South Carolina and a paradise full of beauty, love, and spirituality to which Lily has never before been exposed. I fell in love with this novel and wanted to be a part of this paradise Lily finds. In fact, it was hard to put this book down because I wanted to know more about the characters and their lives. I look forward to reading more from this author.
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Summary: Our Decade's "Color Purple"
Review: Everyone feels the need to compare books to what we've already read. I don't know if that is fair, an insult, or a compliment. It is what we all do though. If the comparisons to yesteryear are to be believed and "My Fractured Life" (Rikki Lee Travolta) is being considered this decade's "Catcher in the Rye" (JD Salinger) - a point I actually don't take issue with - then "Secret Life of Bees" (Sue Monk Kidd) should just as equally be considered this decade's "Color Purple" (Alice Walker). It is a coming of age story of a young girl who learns what it is to be a woman and what it is to be black (although in this case as a white girl in the care of blacks she is learning from the outside as opposed to in the Color Purple where it was a black girl learning herself). Like "My Fractured Life" and "Life of Pi", whether we call it our decades "Color Purple" or anything else, "Secret Life of Bees" is surely one our decade's classics.
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