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The Secret Life of Bees
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bookshelves: wordsmith, women, genre-spiritual, classic, genre-drama-tragedy, favorite, z-sue-monk-kidd, own, award-various, sub-bee, 2002
Dec 09, 2014
bookshelves: wordsmith, women, genre-spiritual, classic, genre-drama-tragedy, favorite, z-sue-monk-kidd, own, award-various, sub-bee, 2002
This is one of my favorite books ever. I love this book. I need to get a list together of my opinion best books. This would be on it. Sue is one of my must authors.
This book introduced me to Sue Monk Kidd's writing. I have all her books now, but Mermaid's Chair and don't need that one. I love her style, her writing and her last 2 books have been amazing. I read this in 2005 and it blew my mind wide opened.
I love the information given with beekeeping and I love how this life is used to help deal with emotional wounds. This book is about healing. As a healer, of course this book appeals to me. The story is rich and the characters are deep. I love the sister in this book. May, June and August are some great women and I love how they work together. It's also a nice flip that this people of color are the ones helping a caucasian person.
There is so much about religion in this book, about the healing power of spirituality. It was also my introduction into the Black Madonna. A few years before this, the Black Madonna had visited me a few times in dreams and so this book resonated with that experience. Every since this book, I have wanted to keep bees on my lilac farm.
The movie was well done and I enjoy that one too, but the experience of reading this is a bit of a healing session on its own.
This book introduced me to Sue Monk Kidd's writing. I have all her books now, but Mermaid's Chair and don't need that one. I love her style, her writing and her last 2 books have been amazing. I read this in 2005 and it blew my mind wide opened.
I love the information given with beekeeping and I love how this life is used to help deal with emotional wounds. This book is about healing. As a healer, of course this book appeals to me. The story is rich and the characters are deep. I love the sister in this book. May, June and August are some great women and I love how they work together. It's also a nice flip that this people of color are the ones helping a caucasian person.
There is so much about religion in this book, about the healing power of spirituality. It was also my introduction into the Black Madonna. A few years before this, the Black Madonna had visited me a few times in dreams and so this book resonated with that experience. Every since this book, I have wanted to keep bees on my lilac farm.
The movie was well done and I enjoy that one too, but the experience of reading this is a bit of a healing session on its own.
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Quotes Calista Liked
“Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn't know a thing about life.”
― The Secret Life of Bees
― The Secret Life of Bees
“If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.”
― The Secret Life of Bees
― The Secret Life of Bees
“Knowing can be a curse on a person's life. I'd traded in a pack of lies for a pack of truth, and I didn't know which one was heavier. Which one took the most strength to carry around? It was a ridiculous question, though, because once you know the truth, you can't ever go back and pick up your suitcase of lies. Heavier or not, the truth is yours now.”
― The Secret Life of Bees
― The Secret Life of Bees
Reading Progress
Started Reading
August 29, 2005
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Finished Reading
December 9, 2014
– Shelved
October 12, 2015
– Shelved as:
women
October 12, 2015
– Shelved as:
wordsmith
October 12, 2015
– Shelved as:
genre-spiritual
October 12, 2015
– Shelved as:
classic
October 12, 2015
– Shelved as:
genre-drama-tragedy
November 5, 2015
– Shelved as:
favorite
June 14, 2017
– Shelved as:
z-sue-monk-kidd
June 21, 2017
– Shelved as:
own
November 22, 2017
– Shelved as:
award-various
January 18, 2019
– Shelved as:
sub-bee
January 21, 2019
– Shelved as:
2002
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Jan 01, 2021 09:13PM
So glad you loved this read, Calista. 😀
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TXGAL1 wrote: "So glad you loved this read, Calista. 😀"Thanks Txgal. It's so well told.
Wonderful review. I also loved this book, but must say was disappointed in Mermaid’s Chair...although Bees raised the bar really high.
The Dusty Jacket wrote: "Wonderful review. I also loved this book, but must say was disappointed in Mermaid’s Chair...although Bees raised the bar really high."Yes, Mermaid's Chair is my least favorite book of Sue Monk Kidd's. A huge disappointment.
JM the funny bookworm wrote: "Great book."JM, yes it is a great book. It's one of my all time favorites.
This was a favorite of mine also. I need to look for some of her other books.Great review Calista.
CoachJim wrote: "This was a favorite of mine also. I need to look for some of her other books.Great review Calista."
Hey CoachJim. I've read all her books since this one. I didn't care for the Meremaid Chair. Her historical fiction stories are amazing. Invention of Wings is great and her latest one was one of my favorite books of hers after this one.
