The Secret Life of Bees | Sue Monk Kidd | Best Book I've Ever Read!!!!

The Secret Life of Bees | Sue Monk Kidd | A little of absolutely everything!

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	The Secret Life of Bees Sue Monk Kidd Penguin (Non-Classics), 2003 - 336 pages average customer review:based on 1385 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Best Book I've Ever Read!!!!

I recommend this book to anyone! It had amazing characters and well developed plots and subplots. The writing alone will keep you entertained, while the moral of the story unravels at its core, teaching you that people have more to offer than you think and you realize that old phrase "It's a small world after all". A very good book that will leave a lasting impression for months to come!

A little of absolutely everything!

This has been one of the best reads for me in a long time - and the one I've most recommended to friends, family and anyone else I've come across. It deals with humans and humanity in all shapes, forms and sizes - shows the best and the worst of everyone in a mixture of love, hate, violence, racism, passion and humour. This is one of those books that has just a little bit of everything. Simply written, unpretentious, it tells it as it is. I couldn't put it down. Fortunately, the pace is so fast I didn't lose too much of my life, either. A quick read and ultimately memorable. Fabulous.

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my favorite book

i read this in a friends rec. it was a great bookk. i cried laughed and was really sucked in cant wait for the movie

this is a FANTABULOUS book!!!!

This book was incredible.Sue Monk Kid is amazing!
I felt like I was a character in the story.
I cried when one of the characters died,
but soon rejoyced when Lily and Zach first met.
It is a FANTABULOUS book!!!
I recommend it to everyone!

Wanted to like it but...

WARNING: SPOILER ALERT!

Okay...I really wanted to like it and it started out really great, but then it just starts to fizzle and doesn't really improve from there. The story starts off with the mystery of Lily's mother and what really happened the day that Lily's mother left T. Ray. Rosaleen, May, June, August, etc. all seem a bit far-fetched, either too sympathetic to the black plight or steeped in mysticism and some weird wooden relic of which they cover in honey and pray to. I just didn't believe the whole storyline that they would let this little white girl into their house without questioning her and that Rosaleen would blindly follow Lily after getting sent to jail for those white men who insulted her. August seems stuck in that role of maternal, mysterious, patient, and ever-knowing black woman that is a foil to Lily who is confused to say the least. It wasn't a bad book and it certainly made for an interesting read, but it just seemed too contrived and full of estrogen for me.

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