The Secret Life of Bees

The library book club met on June 21st to discuss Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees. Topics of discussion included: civil rights, the current threatened food source for bees, mothers and daughters, Black Madonna, and the right to vote. We talked about who is the Queen Bee? And most of our members believed it was August, the character that took Lily and Rosaleen under her wing in the book. We talked about who killed Deborah, Lily's mom. We talked about the sister relationships between May, June and August.

My favorite quote from the book is, "The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters."

Please join us at the Butler Public Library, NJ next month--July 19 for Little Altars Everywhere by Rebecca Wells. Or just check out the blog for comments on the next book.

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