The Help

For Christmas my amazing roommate Molly, who also shares an appreciation for books, gave me The Help by Kathryn Stockett. I heard about the book because the author was a Phi Mu, so naturally I wanted to read it. I was so excited when Molly gave it to me and this week is the first chance I have had to read it since I got it in December.

If you enjoy reading at all I would highly recommend this book, even though it made me cry like five times - which made me mad, I could not put it down. Seriously, every free moment I have had since I started reading it was devoted to this book.

I am sure you are curious what the book is about. It is from the perspective of three women living in the early sixties in Jackson, Mississippi. Miss Skeeter is a young white woman who recently graduated from college and is faced with the challenge of being single and living at home with Mom and Dad, when all of her Junior League friends are married with children. Aibileen and Minny are two older black women who work for white families (Skeeter's friends). Not to give too much away, the book is about their lives and the lines drawn between black and white people at that time in Jackson. It is really charming, it's funny, and darn it if I don't wanna up and move to the south now (well more south than Virginia anyways).

So seriously, give the book a look you will not be disappointed!

On another note,

Still no news about my car, the insurance company is looking at it on monday to determine whether or not it is totalled. Let's pray that it isn't so then my insurance will pay to fix the damage, I will still have a car and won't have to stress about how to get a new one.

As for my list of 21 things to do while 21:

#7 - Serve on Summer Staff
#8 - Go to Wilmington, North Carolina!
#9 - Wear heels more often (I've accepted that I will not grow anymore)
#10 - Do something selfless (this sounds really simple, but how hard is it to do something completely selfless)
#11 - Finish my blue book devotionals
#12 - Take a picture with President Trible (CNU's famed President and former state senator of VA)
#13 - Meet someone famous

Honestly it is getting hard to come up with ideas for my list, anyone got any good ones?