Don’t you just love it when you start a book with no expectations, and then it turns out to be a magnificent work that takes you out of the chair you are reading in and lands you in the middle of the author’s imagination? That is exactly what happened to me in my sophomore year of high school when I just happened to open The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd. This book about a young girl searching for someone to love her in the midst of racial tension plucked me from my room and dropped me in Tiburon, South Carolina. So, you can only imagine how incredibly excited I was to see that my beloved Secret Life of Bees was being brought to the big screen by a very impressive cast (Queen Latifah, Dakota Fanning, Alicia Keys, Jennifer Hudson), and was being released this weekend! I have no idea why I was unaware of its production, but I will just blame it on my deep interest in my scholastic studies…
Anyway, I took my mom to see it yesterday, and we both were crying at various parts of the film. This movie stayed right on to the plot of the book, and it was amazing to see my mental images of Lilly Owens, the Boatwright Sisters, and Tiburon come to life. I highly recommend the movie, even if you have not read the book. And take your mom, because it makes it THAT much better. 
