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I am in Jacksonville, Mississippi. Miss Skeeter and I have just crept through the dark night lugging a 50 pound typewriter to the home of Aibileen. Aibileen is an African American maid and she is about to (hopefully) share with us the stories of what it is like to be a maid for the white folks of Jacksonville, Mississippi. Miss Skeeter is going to write the story and hopefully it will be published – but I know this is a dangerous thing to do. Abileen’s tension and fear of being caught matches Miss Skeeter’s level of excitement – and I fall somewhere in between. I want to know Aibileen’s stories, as heartbreaking as I know they will be – but not at the risk of her safety.
The recent beating of the colored boy for using the white mans bathroom is all too fresh in my mind…
Book Journey 
Oh I can’t wait to read this one. I was lucky enough to pick it up at a yard sale this summer!
Jo-Jo that is a lucky find! I love this book and if I found copies at a yard sale I would buy them all so friends could read it too! 🙂
I am walking down a devastated street in Molching, Germany in late 1943. The sky is red, it is snowing hot ash, and my town is gone. A man walks past with a broken accordion case, and I can see the instrument inside… Papa’s accordion.
From The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Jody – as you described the book I knew what it was before you said… I loved The Book Thief…. great place for you to be in a book!
It is on my wish list!
Teaser Tuesdays: 72 Virgins by Avi Perry
Great item for your wish list! You will be thrilled with it! Let me know your thoughts once you have read it – I would love to read your review.
I remember those HUGE typewriters from “back in the day”!
I loved this book.
LOL Laurel – I had one… loved it. Thought I was going to be a writer. Some days… I still do. 🙂
I so need to get to this book and soon!!!
I’m in WW2-era Poland with folks who are trying to survive the Holocaust 🙂
Marie – what book are you in? This sounds interesting.
While I was reading this book, I kept waiting for Skeeter to get caught.
Lisa – me too…. I think of all the danger she is putting both herself and Aibileen in!
Sounds good! I hope the danger everyone is worried about doesn’t show its self, that everyone ends up okay and the story is got.
Sounds great! This week was Where are you? week for me, if you would like to stop by…
http://melissa-melsworld.blogspot.com/
Hope you enjoy this. I thought it was really, really great!