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Jan 04, 2024MyeshaTM rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Favorite Quote: “People who think dying is the worst thing don’t know a thing about life.”~Lily I remember watching the film and listening to the audiobook and now I’m reading the paperback. It holds a special place in my heart as a child…
Aug 06, 2023nairnfriemann rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
I love this book!
Apr 15, 2023iloveseaotters rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
I really liked this book and most of the characters in it. Very well written and a great storyline with drama and sadness mixed in.
Mar 31, 2023Anita_Dickey rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
I read this book for a challenge in where i read a book that takes place in each of the fifty states. This book takes place in South Carolina. It is also on Listopia's 300 books everyone should read once list. I enjoyed it a lot. It had a…
Feb 07, 2023Diana_Rhodes rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
A beautifully, well written story that I’m sure will stick around me for a while. This is essentially a coming of age story with threads of grief, history and a lot of self discovery. Lily Owens’ life changes instantly when she decides…
Jan 26, 2023maroon_bear_331 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
The United States is known as diverse and accepting of many different races, but that wasn’t always the case. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd takes us back to the mid-1900s, back when Jim Crow laws were running rampant across the…
Oct 18, 2022LoriHarrow rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
An easy read that addresses issues of loneliness, strong women, hope and love in realistic ways. The plot has valuable lessons for teens as well as adults.
Jun 23, 2022Silver_Moon_7 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
I would rate this book 4/5 stars. Lily Owens is a fourteen-year-old white girl living in the state of South Carolina in the 1960s. For as long as she could remember, Lily grew up believing that she was responsible for the death of her…
Feb 15, 2022Cbeseler rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
A wonderful book that can be read and re-read. My second reading was after I read her book Traveling With Pomegranates where her process of becoming a writer is woven into the story. Revisiting The Secret Life of Bees was like spending an…
May 19, 2021
Loved it! A great book
May 18, 2021TEENREVIEWCREW rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
If you enjoy books by Sue Monk Kidd I recommend this one for you. The Secret Life of Bees takes you on an incredible journey back to the 1960s and shows you how hard it was for minorities back in this era. You see how things have changed…
Feb 27, 2021kathylock rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
Well written and an easy story to read. Some parts were not plausible though or too much luck to line up.
Feb 03, 2021ccap30 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Fabulous read. Every chapter heartwarming. Joy Happiness Love Friendship and a few tears.
Dec 11, 2020
A joy to read
Dec 07, 2020
This book goes to show that a happy ending does not necessarily end with a love story between man and woman. This book describes what it is like to be surrounded by independent women who have scraped out their own beautiful corner of the…
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Nov 15, 2020rosinasavino rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
i absolutely loved this book. I was able to read the novel within days. The topics covered included family, racism, loss and growth and so much more. Set in 1964 South Carolina, we are placed in the world of 14 year old Lily Owens who has…
Jul 13, 2020suveen rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Secret Life of Bees The novel Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd is an amazing book. It is set in South Carolina 1964 and tells the story of Lilly Owens who is blamed for her mother’s death by her father. She runs away trying to find her…
Jun 04, 2020writermala rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
This is a lovely book where the author uses bees a a metaphor for life itself. Lily lives with her father and Black housekeeper as her mother is dead - died in mysterious circumstances. It is a coming of age story set in the Civil Rights…
Dec 04, 2019justkt54 rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
This book hit a home run with me! Engaging, funny, thought-provoking and young adult appropriate. Treat yourself to the audio book version!
May 24, 2019betsymarzoni rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Read the book instead of watching the movie.
Apr 29, 2019_Mirelda_ rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
A wonderful book club read, set in the south in the year 1964. Themes include coming of age, awakening to civil rights, healing relationships between women, gender roles, and suicide. MC Lily is an intelligent, lonely young woman with an…
Jul 14, 2018WoodneathShirlee rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Set in 1964, this is a coming-of-age story about loss and betrayal. Lily Owens is raised by a “stand-in-mother” after her mother is killed. It’s the story of divine female power in a racist town in the south.
Jan 09, 2018lowen3 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
I fell in love with this book. It's inspiring, beautifully written, and empowering- while keeping an intriguing but not overly complicated plot. It made me cry and laugh out loud. You know you've found a good book if it can make you both…
Nov 21, 2017
A young girl who grew up in South Carolina in the early 1960s lives with her black nanny and a trio of beekeeping sisters (May, June, and August). Lily has a hard past, vaguely remembering her mother getting murdered, having an abusive…
Oct 23, 2017Marilyn34 rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
What would you do if you could find out about your mother if she has been gone since you were a toddler? Would you try to find out or not? Check out my review of "The Secret Life of Bees" on my blog at:…