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Beautiful writing style, however, I left the book not liking the storyteller at all. This was a book club pick and we had our book club meeting tonight to discuss and the consensus of the other readers was similar to mine. I did learn a great deal about the extreme journey society has taken from 1967 to now in the ways a young girl is treated when she discovers an unwanted or unplanned pregnancy. Ms. Hall was stricken from society and labeled an outcast, almost forever. She lost family connections that never recovered, and yet even though she went on to gain future connections that would seem more precious, she never truly seemed grateful for them. I found this very sad and very disturbing on several levels. I'm still on the fence as to whether to recommend this one to anyone else.

Could not put this one down. I picked it up in the hopes of reading it in under two weeks so that I could catch the movie during opening weekend with a friend. Little did I know that I'd read it in just a matter of a few days. If I hadn't had to actually work several of those days, I would have preferred to curl up on the sofa with this and not even come up for air. It is difficult to believe this is a first time author -- Ms. Stockett pulls her reader straight into civil-rights era Jackson, MS and the outside world disappears as the story unfolds between these unlikely allies. I laughed out loud (a rarity for me!), cried several tears of both joy and sadness, and have walked away with a sense or urgency to re-examine my own Southern upbringing.

One of the most spiritual and yet not spiritual books I've read in years. Will inspire anyone to reevaluate old habits and bad routines and in turn, find that positivity you know you've been craving.