The Help by Kathryn Stockett

I've finally read The Help after a zillion people have already read it.  I won't go on and on because so much has already been said about it, and I don't feel like adding too much to the clutter. But I'll say this: I enjoyed it.  And I'll say this: I saw the movie before I read the book, and I didn't like the movie.  I wanted to read the book because I hoped that the book would fill in some of the gaps that were in the movie adaptation of the story. (The people involved in making the movie were most likely too close to the project to see these gaps. Of course, there could be other reasons for those gaps.) Anyway, I'm happy to report that those gaps were not in the book.