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50 books in 2012: “The Help”
I only made it to about 35-ish last year. I stopped posting them and counting after it was apparent there was no way I would hit 50 in 2011. So here we go again…
I had borrowed this from a friend a long time ago and finally got around to reading it. I’m glad I read it after all the hype, both good and bad, died down since I kind of forgot about it all while reading it.
I enjoyed it well enough, but I definitely wouldn’t say it was well-written. It was a fairly quick, decent night-time read. I would classify it as typical middle-aged women’s book club material: Predictable, emotional, women’s empowerment type of stuff, but nothing revolutionary or extraordinary. A solid 2.5 stars.
(I rented the movie over the weekend from Redbox while grocery shopping, and I felt the same way: Decently mediocre.)
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