Well I'm here! The flight left at 8:40 and we arrived in San Diego 20 minutes earlier that the expected arrival time. I'm the only Dopp to fly and the others had car troubles, so now I have 5 hours to kill while waiting for them to pick me up. Luckily I have The Complete Idiot's Guide to Publishing Children's Books and another ballet book. I'm taking a taxi to Old Town to see the Mormon historical sight and take a tour. But for now I have to spend a little more time at the airport. There's not much to do in this one but I'm set with my books. I'm so excited to spend a whole week in IB!!!! The New Year is coming and I have a feeling 2015 will be a good one.
The Help by Kathryn Stockett The Help is a great book for young adults and mature teenagers. It is education, funny and insightful. It is 444 pages, but a definite page turner. I rated it 5-stars because it is such a great book. It is basically about how unfairly African-Americans were treated in the 1950s and 60s. It changes perspective about every chapter, but it's fairly easy to follow along. It is from the point of view of 3 women from Jackson, Mississippi in the 1960's. Aibileen, Minny and Miss Skeeter are the narrators. I thought it was unique that it had more than one narrator and it allowed you to understand the story much better. Aibileen (my favorite character) is a black women who is "the Help" to Miss Leefolt. She is kind, wise and smart. Throughout the story she develops a strong bond between Miss Leefolt's little girl, Mae Mobley. Miss Leefolt is very strict and rather oblivious to Mae Mobley. She doesn't really know how to raise her, so Aibil...
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