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  "Wasn’t that the point of the book? For women to realise, We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not nearly as much as I’d thought." The Help was nothing like I had imagined it to be. This title was sitting on my want-to-read list since forever. And now I'm reeling with the effects of its hangover. This book was an absolute delight. It got me hooked so much so that I stopped caring where my phone was, started pushing everything else just to get a few more minutes with the book and forgot all about my sleep schedule for the next few days! The Help is a story of three women - Aibileen, Mini & Skeeter - cautious but strong. The three of them set off on a mission to make the voices of the black women of Jackson, Mississippi heard, albeit anonymously. These black women, who were hired as help, raised white babies like their own, cooked food for white families with love, tended to their sick with warmth and took care of their homes with utmost sincerity. And ...

  " Love makes a place in your life, it makes a place for itself in your bed. Invisibly, it makes a place in your body, rerouting all your blood vessels, throbbing right alongside your heart. When it’s gone, nothing is whole again ." I'm not a fan of love stories and I did not quite know what exactly I was getting into when I picked up this book, but once I started reading it I didn't really have a choice. Have you ever had a friend (or even an acquaintance for that matter) who has a habit of bringing up their childhood friends, whom you've never ever heard of before, by their first name in conversations with you? And there you are left wondering whether this was some person you were supposed to know until finally your friend understands your predicament & unapologetically decides to give you some context! This book is like that friend. Right from page one it starts talking to you...about everything under the sun as if you've known them for long. At first,...