Help! The Help

Well we've changed the book for this month as Middlesex is quite long so we are now doing 'The help" by Kathryn Stockett.
Set in Jackson, Mississippi, 1962, with the Civil rights movement exploding, three women start a movement of their own, changing a town and the way women, black and white, mothers and daughters, view one another.

Recommendation

Stella recommends "Let the great world spin" by Colum McCann. Might be worth adding to our to do list??

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

Our book for May 2012:

Middlesex tells the story of Cal, a hermaphrodite raised as a girl by her Greek-American parents. When Cal reaches puberty she begins to recognise a difference between herself and her classmates.


Here is link to the First Tuesday Bookclub page. It has a bit of interesting info including some very mixed reviews.


http://www.abc.net.au/tv/firsttuesday/s2615796.htm

April 2012- Dracula by Bram Stoker

The general consensus was that it was well enjoyed. Genevieve, Kristy and I thought that despite some very confusing elements in the story it was a good read.
Phil found it to be not "horror" enough. Annette thought it started off creepy and then switched to the Young Adult version. Cheryl also read the Y/A, which turned out to be different to what the rest of us had read. So they got a slightly different interpretation. Cathy started to read it but thought it might just get too scary. I thought that too at the beginning, it was creepy but after talking to Megan who had the Bram Stoker experience at her conference urged me push on. She had just come back from a conference on emerging technologies and education. The presenter used references to Dracula, and the use of technology in the story, phonograph and shorthand  (I think there was another, I just can't remember at the moment). Megan's Bram Stoker experience even included a fellow participant with the name Jonathon Harker. Very eerie.....

What do you rate it?
Anna           8
Annette       8
Cheryl         7
Genevieve   8
Kristy          7
Megan         8
Phil              2

So the average is..... 6.85  not bad!