Wow… seems like it has been quite a few days since I have grabbed Coffee Cup and just had time to 
meander in the morning. The craziness of summer… I feel like I am always on the go!
The book I am seeing pop up again and again, even yesterday when I presented the question, What is your favorite read so far this year?
One of the books that has seemed to come up on this list time and again is The Help by Kathryn Stockett.
Synopsis
Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step.
Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone.
Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken.
Minny, Aibileen’s best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobody’s business, but she can’t mind her tongue, so she’s lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own.
Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.
Sound good? Check out these reviews from some of my friends around the blogosphere and see what they had to say about this read:
Laura at Laura’s Reviews talks about this book opening her eyes and something about a caramel cake…. caramel cake??? Oh yum!
Alyce at At Home With Books said that this felt like walking right into Jackson, Mississippi in the 1960’s!
Eve at Between the Bookendz (who I had featured last week for another incredible read of hers) says this is one of the best books she has read this year!
Both Laura and Alyce had added this book to my post yesterday as a best read for the first half of the year s as well. I am more than sold out for this book. I am hoping to pick it up today and read it hopefully over the upcoming weekend.
Stop by and see Laura, Alyce, and Eve at their beautiful blog spots and read three great reviews on this book!
Book Journey 
Fab blog!
I am reading Three Cups of Tea right now and quite enjoying it!
xoxox,
CC
I loved Three Cups of tea – not so much for the writing style – but for the story behind it.
I read The Help and LOVED it. One of the best of the year, I agree.
Thanks for linking to my review! I can’t wait to hear what you think of the book.
I finally added this book to my library holds recently because I had heard sooo many wonderful things about it!
I read and LOVED “The Help.” Forgot to include that as a favorite, since it’s been a few months since I read it.
See, my mind is like a sieve.
I reviewed it on Amazon. Now I think I have to post it on one of my blogs!
I also read The Help and LOVED it!! It is one of my faves for the year. I hope you enjoy it as well!
Hi Sheila, Please stop by my blog I have an award for you. Yes, I know you already have it, but you have been gracious to me. Thanks! ~~ Kim
Please pop over, I have an award for you.
xo E.
Sheila this is an AWESOME book. I didn’t put it on my list of books on my blog, but I really think I will add it. I couldn’t put it down and it was so telling. It really confronted racial inequity and discrimation head on, but was a wonderul story. YOU MUST READ IT!!
My favorite book this year so far? I have loved two memoirs: the classic — The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom. A MUST READ for everyone, more than one time. Inspirational!
And a current memoir: The Middle Place by Kelly Corrigan (I guess we are all trying to find “our place” 🙂 A writer who is real with wit and candor when Cancer strikes her and her father.
Kim – I got The Hiding Place from my grandma when I was younger. I was addicted to that book. I haven’t thought about it or read it for years. Now, I am going to have to get it again.