I loved the book

I'm looking forward to our afternoon movie today, which will be "The Secret Life of Bees."  This is what I said about the book in September 2009, HERE:

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (2002) is #10 alphabetically in my continuing series on "fifteen books that will always stick with me."

What is it about this book that I like so much?  Maybe it's the image of Rosaleen, a black woman in the South in 1964, spitting snuff on the shoes of a racist white man who is harrassing her.  Maybe it's the strong character of August Boatwright (one of the "calendar sisters" of May, June, and August), who epitomizes a queen bee in this story about bee-keeping sisters who take in a 14-year-old white girl running away from her abusive daddy — I think making her kneel on grits is abuse, don't you?  Maybe it's the Black Madonna in Tiburon, South Carolina, that Lily runs to after she breaks Rosaleen out of custody.  Maybe it's that this first novel was written after the author realized conventional goodness just wasn't enough.

1. On Tuesday, I wrote about two friends, HERE.  Well, I also mentioned a book and a couple of magazines from the library that I was reading.
2. On Wednesday, I wrote about a boy who loved words, HERE.
3. On Monday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, I didn't post anything.  This has NOT been my best blogging week.  Maybe I attended too many Fourth of July events we had at the Crown Center.

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