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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Picked up a couple of Sue Monk Kidd's books from my shelves

Read The Book of Longings first. Fiction told from the perspective of Jesus's wife. Found it quite enjoyable, well paced, and just plain interesting. Deals with women wanting to have a voice, issues of writings told only from make perspective, women being shunned because a man raped them, betrothals, class, etc. Would recommend a read, not sure if I'll keep it or pass along.

Then read The Secret Life of Bees. About a young teen whose mother dies when she is young. She grows up in an abusive home where her dad is extreme with his punishments and completely devoid of love for her. Eventually she runs away with her housemaid and finds herself and her housemaid taken in by 3 sisters who keep bees. Won't spoil anything for those who haven't read it, I enjoyed it and finished it, but at one point, the girl is told that her dad wasn't always like that and that at one point he loved her mom very dearly which is just messed up nonsense, and I hate when people say stuff like that about abusers. It's just plain not true nor psychologically possible. So for that reason, not going to keep it, and it struck me morally, but all in all, it was still a good book.[/quote]

ooo you haven't even read her best book, The Invention of Wings[/quote]

I loved Invention of Wings too, first and only book I've read from Monk Kidd.

So (first) PP, you may have inspired me to pick up Book of Longings as well this year.[/quote]

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