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May 07, 2010 Kellie rated it really liked it

Shelves: 2010-reads, fiction-literature

First I want to set the record straight. This book is not in the same echelon as The Help. It’s an enjoyable read and it does have a similar theme. However, The Help is in a league all it’s own. This book reminds me of a Fanny Flagg novel. Southern setting, conflict is mild, humor is widespread and it’s a nice, copasetic story. I enjoyed it. I just thought there would be more to it. The story is about Cee Cee. She is rescued from an unhappy situation in Ohio by her great aunt who whisks her down ...more

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Aug 21, 2011 Lanica rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobooks, reviewed, read-in-2011, historical-fiction

PERSONAL REVIEW: I liked this book for it's characters, but the plot and events seemed flimsy. The mother was a caricature, the father a cliche. CeeCee was sweet and the people around her were wonderful and colorful, but I never bought that this was a 'likely' story. Too many things were too simple, too cute or too goodie-goodie for me to buy in.

AS A SCHOOL LIBRARIAN:
- I am getting tired of reading books where one of the parents has some form of mental illness and the child must overcome. I'm n ...more

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Jul 20, 2010 Joanie rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: from-the-library, audio-book

I had heard an except of this on Sirius Book Radio and it sounded pretty good so I checked it out from the library. It's definitely a light, entertaining read-nothing too heavy. Although lighter, it had the same feel as The Secret Life of Bees.

Here's the premise-After her chronically mentally ill mother dies, CeeCee Honeycutt is sent to live with her great aunt in Atlanta. Atlanta is filled with the warm, loving, albeit eccentric people CeeCee was never fortunate enough to encounter while livin ...more

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Feb 04, 2010 Tara rated it really liked it

If I could I would go with 4 1/2 stars! This was a sweet look at a young girl finding her place in the world with the help from a wonderful mix of women in Savannah, Georgia. It takes a lot for Ceecee to emerge from the years of stress and residual damage from her years as caretaker to her mother, but the wisdom of each of the women she meets in Savannah help her to realize that she is not who she was, but rather who she wants to be.
Although I am not from the south, the eccentric women in the b ...more

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