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Summer Reading

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I love to read, but seem to take forever finishing a book unless I am on vacation. I look forward to our trip to Minnesota every year because there is time to read.  Mike and I usually drive up each year.  That is a 20 hour trip.  I cannot spend the entire trip reading, but I do my best. This trip I have managed to read four books so far!  You see them posted in the blog.  I read The Help first.  Jenni gave me a copy.  Good, fast read.  And I was excited to find out that a movie based on the book is coming out in August.  I cannot imagine that it will be as good as the book, but I hope to see it!  This book is very popular.   In case you are unaware of the plot,  The Help  is a  2009  novel by  American  author  Kathryn Stockett . It is about  African American   maids  working in white households in  Jackson ,  Mississippi  during the early 1960s. Safe Haven ...