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I don't get the chance to read many novels, I started one Friday and finished it yesterday afternoon, The Help
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From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. What perfect timing for this optimistic, uplifting debut novel (and maiden publication of Amy Einhorn's new imprint) set during the nascent civil rights movement in Jackson, Miss., where black women were trusted to raise white children but not to polish the household silver. Eugenia Skeeter Phelan is just home from college in 1962, and, anxious to become a writer, is advised to hone her chops by writing about what disturbs you. The budding social activist begins to collect the stories of the black women on whom the country club sets relies and mistrusts enlisting the help of Aibileen, a maid who's raised 17 children, and Aibileen's best friend Minny, who's found herself unemployed more than a few times after mouthing off to her white employers. The book Skeeter puts together based on their stories is scathing and shocking, bringing pride and hope to the black community, while giving Skeeter the courage to break down her personal boundaries and pursue her dreams. Assured and layered, full of heart and history, this one has bestseller written all over it. (Feb.)
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It was so good! May be more of a 'chick' book, though deals in a novel way with the Civil Rights era, from a Southern perspective.
'The Help' Movie To Start Filming This Summer In Mississippi
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JACKSON, Miss. Brunson Green, a producer known on the independent film circuit for movies like "Chicken Party" and "Pretty Ugly People," says he had to fight to get his first major studio picture shot in his home state of Mississippi.
DreamWorks Studios announced Thursday that the "The Help," based on the 2009 best-seller by Kathryn Stockett, will mostly be shot in Greenwood, Miss., even though it's set in 1960s Jackson.
"It was really hard for us to bring the film to Mississippi, but state officials worked to make that happen," Green said Thursday.
While the majority of the movie will be filmed in Greenwood, Brunson said a few scenes also will shot in Jackson and other cities in north Mississippi.
The book is about black maids living in Jackson, Miss., in the 1960s as the civil rights movement was taking shape.
Stockett said her "heart would be broken" if it was filmed anywhere but Mississippi.
Greenwood is a rural city with a population of about 18,000, located in the impoverished Delta region known for blues music and cotton fields. Apparently, that's what appealed to producers.
"We looked for a town that had a lot of similar aspects of Jackson in the 1960s and Greenwood fit the bill," Brunson said.
The movie will star "Zombieland" actress Emma Stone and Viola Davis, who was nominated for an Academy Award in 2009 for "Doubt."
"The Help" starts filming in late July.
Third Book of the Fire and Ice series by George R R Martin. only 4 of the 7 books have been released so far and HBO is working on a mini series. Great read.....
Third Book of the Fire and Ice series by George R R Martin. only 4 of the 7 books have been released so far and HBO is working on a mini series. Great read.....
But one that needs a warning: Not for everyone.
My brother and most of my friends that read fantasy swear by that series, but every so often you get someone (like me) that just threw the first book at the wall in anger. For me, it was the moment that the kid got pushed out the window. I was so angry at the author for breaking the rules about kids and violence I just couldn't read on.
the history of murder by colin wilson
Product Description
Murder provided public entertainment for the Caesars of ancient Rome, and executions drew huge, enthusiastic crowds in Elizabethan England and at the Bastille in revolutionary France. The thirst for blood and cry for deadly vengeance lie deep in humankind, as criminologist Colin Wilson authoritatively illustrates in this millennial history of the most heinous of human crimes. Analyzing the tangle of motives behind murder and examining an astonishing variety of homicidal methods over the past twenty centuries, Wilson not only profiles infamous historical figures like Vlad the Impaler, Ivan the Terrible, Gilles de Rais, Countess Elizabeth Bathory, Marquis de Sade, and Jack the Ripper, but also studies particular categories of homicide and such phenomena as the Jacobean witch hunts and gangland killings of America's Jazz Age. Wilson's chronicle includes, too, the serial killings, random shooting sprees, and cult murders that have troubled more recent times. The comprehensive history and illuminating analysis of how humans kill, and why, make crime-expert Wilson's volume one that no true-crime fan or student of criminology will want to miss.
Amazon.com: The Mammoth Book of the History of Murder (9780786707140): Colin Wilson: Books
