Sarah's Library

6/6 - I enjoyed this, but can't really give any specific reasons for that enjoyment. It was a mostly sweet story of a 14-year-old girl who never felt like she fit in anywhere, until she ran away from home and found herself on the doorstep of three offbeat sisters. I felt the need for physical violence while reading T. Ray's scenes - I hate reading about domestic abuse. I liked all the information about bees and beekeeping and the epigraphs at the start of each chapter. Reading The Secret Life of Bees gave me a similar feeling to reading The Help - racism, intolerance, inequality, and a single Caucasian girl who is colour blind and doesn't feel any of those things.

*Update on 7/11* I finally got the chance to see the movie and enjoyed it even more than the book. I thought Fanning did a wonderful job with such an intense part. I did imagine all the sisters about a decade older than the actors who played them - June and May in their 40s and August in her early 50s with her hair starting to go grey. I thought Latifah, Keys, and Okonedo all played their parts very well and very truly to the book, they just weren't old enough.