Let's Do This: The Help Readalong, Week One

Okay, people. Halloween's over. It's November. Let's read The Help and jump on this pop culture bandwagon (that apparently the black community isn't too thrilled about, but more on that later). *waves little bandwagon-jumper flag*

When this first came out, I equated it with The Secret Life of Bees, which I did not read, but I saw the lovely movie version. As it stands, I think I still do this, but now that I have some extra knowledge about it, my brain adds "The Secret Life of Bees, but there're more white people."

The plot elements might be different, but it's still (according to the limited information I have) about a group of wise black women who have A Little Something to Teach The World at Large (aka white people in the '60s). Also the movie posters are both yellow.

I didn't intend this to be a "THE HELP = SECRET LIFE OF BEES" post. Oops. Okay! So! For anyone who wants to do it, we're reading chapters 1 through 9 for next Tuesday. And if those who signed up are all "Screw The Help! I signed up in a moment of weakness!", then I shall post delightful musings on my own while everyone else on the internet sighs and says "We KNOW this already because we read it a YEAR ago."

Those who read it already (or those who haven't, so really everybody), did you have any preconceptions going in? Did you also think it would be The Secret Life of Bees, albeit with more helping and fewer bees? Do you recommend the movie? TELL ME THINGS.

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Minithon: The Mini Readathon, January 11th, 2020

The minithon is upon us once more! Minithons are for the lazy. Minithons are for the uncommitted. Minithons are for us. The minithon lasts 6 hours (10 AM to 4 PM CST), therefore making it a mini readathon, as opposed to the lovely Dewey's 24 Hour Readathon and 24in48, both of which you should participate in, but both of which are a longer commitment than this, the Busy Watching Netflix person's readathon. By 'read for six hours' what's really meant in the minithon is "read a little bit and eat a lot of snacks and post pictures of your books and your snacks, but mostly your snacks." We like to keep it a mini theme here, which mainly means justifying your books and your snacks to fit that theme. Does your book have children in it? Mini people! Does it have a dog! Mini wolf! Does it have pencils? Mini versions of graphite mines! or however you get graphite, I don't really know. I just picture toiling miners. The point is, justify it or don't...

Harry Potter 2013 Readalong Signup Post of Amazingness and Jollity

Okay, people. Here it is. Where you sign up to read the entire Harry Potter series (or to reminisce fondly), starting January 2013, assuming we all survive the Mayan apocalypse. I don't think I'm even going to get to Tina and Bette's reunion on The L Word until after Christmas, so here's hopin'. You guys know how this works. Sign up if you want to. If you're new to the blog, know that we are mostly not going to take this seriously. And when we do take it seriously, it's going to be all Monty Python quotes when we disagree on something like the other person's opinion on Draco Malfoy. So be prepared for your parents being likened to hamsters. If you want to write lengthy, heartfelt essays, that is SWELL. But this is maybe not the readalong for you. It's gonna be more posts with this sort of thing: We're starting Sorceror's/Philosopher's Stone January 4th. Posts will be on Fridays. The first post will be some sort of hilar...

How to Build a Girl Introductory Post, which is full of wonderful things you probably want to read

Acclaimed (in England mostly) lady Caitlin Moran has a novel coming out. A NOVEL. Where before she has primarily stuck to essays. Curious as we obviously were about this, I and a group of bloggers are having a READALONG of said novel, probably rife with spoilers (maybe they don't really matter for this book, though, so you should totally still read my posts). This is all hosted/cared for/lovingly nursed to health by Emily at As the Crowe Flies (and Reads) because she has a lovely fancy job at an actual bookshop ( Odyssey Books , where you can in fact pre-order this book and then feel delightful about yourself for helping an independent store). Emily and I have negotiated the wonders of Sri Lankan cuisine and wandered the Javits Center together. Would that I could drink with her more often than I have. I feel like we could get to this point, Emily INTRODUCTION-wise (I might've tipped back a little something this evening, thus the constant asides), I am Alice. I enjoy...

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