I've Done Some Reading - Time to Share

The Help

This was a great book. I couldn't put it down. I loved the women in it and their personalities. I found it fascinating that you could have a woman raise (hold, comfort, feed, play and love) your child, but feel they weren't good enough to share a bathroom with or that they carried diseases. Of course, not all the help was treated that way, some were treated like family, but the dynamics are so interesting. It is well written and a page turner.

Fall of Giants

This is a great epic novel, the first of three in a series. It starts out in Edwardian times and goes through the first World War. It follows a couple different people through this time. Some are from England, Russia, Germany and the U.S. It is detailed and historic. Loved it and can't wait until the next one comes out.

The Paris Wife

This is the story of Ernest Hemingway's first wife, Hadley Richardson. It is very interesting and I can say that by the end of it, I didn't like Ernest Hemingway very much. It begins with their courtship and ends with their divorce and covers everything in between. It was a fascinating time to live in the Paris artist community. It ties in nicely with the new movie Midnight in Paris. I enjoyed it.

Cutting for Stone

EH, it was okay. Parts of it I really enjoyed, parts were boring. If you are a huge reader give it a go, if not don't bother. I read this book right after "Unbroken" and "The Hangman's Daughter" and it wasn't as good as either of those. Maybe it suffered due to the order it was read in.