Back To The Books

Book club kicked off for the fall season this Thursday with movie night!  The Help came to the big screen last week and it has definitely been a blockbuster favorite from fans and critics alike.  We read The Help back in March and had a great discussion so I knew it would be fun to start off book club going to see The Help.  We had a great turn-out and the movie was very good.  It was well casted, well acted, emotional, powerful and overall just a darn good movie.  It was interesting to have read the book and then to see the words on those pages acted out.  It almost made it seem more painful to watch than to read.  After the movie, we stood around in the hallway talking about how it made us feel.  We compared some of the issues of the Civil Rights movement to the issues we deal with today and realized how not very different they are.  It was very thought-provoking and we all enjoyed seeing it.

Here's the group from March....

And here's the group from August: Me, Jenny, Ashley, Shawna, Katherine, Shea and Maggie

Thanks for coming, girls!

After the movie I shared with everyone my memory of my grandmother's help, Pearl.  Here she is with my mom, who was much younger during the movement than Skeeter or Hilly but nonetheless remembers her help, too.  I still remember Pearl being around the house when we would go visit my Grandmother in Texas.  She is a wonderfully kind woman and my mom and grandmother still have a great relationship with her.  This picture was taken not even a year ago.  :)