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Author Kathryn Stockett may have to go back on the defensive as the housekeeper of a relative is seeking to have a lawsuit against the author reinstated in a Hinds County, Mississippi court. Ablene Cooper, who has worked as a housekeeper for the author’s brother, previously had her lawsuit dismissed because it was ruled the statute of limitations had expired. Cooper insists that Stockett used [...]
The proliferation of eBooks is making it easier and easier for everyone to carry as many books as they like at one time. While thousands of authors are out there penning work for eBookstores, few of them have reached the heights of Janet Evanovich and Kathryn Stockett. The two authors just achieved millionaire status, but not the monetary sort. Evanovich and Stockett are the latest [...]
The trailer for the movie adaptation of Kathryn Stockett’s book THE HELP has been released, and we can now finally get our first look at the characters we have come to love on the page come alive.
So what do you think? Is it close to what you had imagined while reading the book?
Kathryn Stockett, author of the bestselling novel The Help, is facing a lawsuit from an unexpected source: her older brother’s longtime maid. Apparently, sixty-year-old Ablene Cooper sees more than a few similarities between herself and one of the book’s main characters, Aibileen Clark. Like the fictitious Aibileen, Ablene Cooper is an African American woman working as a maid for a white family in Jackson, Mississippi. [...]
The month of June is National Audiobook Month and Jen at Devourer of Books is hosting daily discussions of audiobooks all this week. I’m a huge audiobook addict and you might have noticed that many of the book reviews Jose and I do are of audiobooks. We started listening to them a few years ago to make our respective commutes to work go by faster. [...]
This week I read “The Help“ by Kathryn Stockett. I’ve been wanting to read it ever since Kristen posted her review. Since I feel that most people have already read this book by now, I decided it might be fun to start a discussion. I took some questions from the author’s website and have given my answers for each one. Please copy the questions into [...]
It’s hard to believe that 2009 is coming to a close and we’re about to enter a new decade. As the end of the year approaches, I’ve been looking back at all the books I’ve read in 2009 and I made a list of a few that stood out from the rest. These might not be the best books of the year, but they are [...]
Kathryn Stockett tackles the issue of racial segregation in 1960′s era Jackson, Mississippi in her debut novel, The Help. It’s about the black maids who did so much work in white households: cooking, cleaning, and raising the children, but were treated poorly and paid very little. The story is told from the perspective of three different women, one white and two black, against the backdrop [...]
