Recent Reads

Since I haven't been feeling very well lately, I've been spending more time than usual at home. You can only watch so much HGTV, so I've tried to find some good books to read. I recently finished two really good ones - The Help and The Lincoln Lawyer.

The Help was very interesting. It's historical fiction and is set in the 1960s in Mississippi. The book follows a group of black women and a group of white women. In secret, one of the white women convinces a group of black women to work with her to write a tell-all book about the black women's experiences working as maids in the white homes of the South. The book chronicles their stories, the lengths they go to in order to write the book, and what happens after the book is released. It's extremely well-written and I would highly recommend it.

I bought The Lincoln Lawyer because I actually wanted to see the movie when it came out, but I missed it in theaters so I figured reading the book would be a good alternative. It's set in Los Angeles in modern times and follows the story of a defense attorney who unknowingly takes on a rich client guilty of a crime that a previous client of the defense attorney has already been convicted for. The defense attorney doesn't know this at first, but as he figures it out, he realizes that an innocent man (his previous client) is in prison for a crime he did not commit. He vows to set things straight and book follows all the twists and turns that happen along the way. It was a good read - I finished the book in one day because I couldn't put it down!