The Secret Life of Bees

So...for English we have been assigned a long range assignment. When 2nd semester starts we are going to be watching movies about journalism. Between that we are going to be "leisure reading" and writing it in our blogs. How cool is that????? Because how many teachers give you assignments to write your own website??? I think it will be fun.
We only have very few requirement which I think is nice. We have to,
1) Read at least 1 book.
2) The book must be at least 200 pages.
3) Update your blog as often as possible.
4) Fill out worksheets now and then about the blogs and other blogs you read.
5) We have from Christmas until Spring Break to finish this assignment.
This seems pretty simple. The first book I have decided to read is The Secret Life of Bees written by Sue Monk Kidd.

"This book is set in South Carolina in 1964. It tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed. When Lily's fierce-hearted black "stand-in mother," Rosaleen, insults three of the deepest racists in town, Lily decides to spring them both free. They escaoe to Tiburon, South Carolina--a town that holds the secret to her mother's past. Taken in by an eccentric trio of black beekeeping sisters, Lily is introduced to their mesmerizing world of bees and honey, and the Black Madonna. This is the remarkable novel about divine female power, a story that women will share and pass on to their daughters for years to come."

This is the summary of the book from the back cover. It seems like a pretty good book to me. It is also becoming a movie. I will hopefully soon put up a trailer to the movie soon.