Here’s canned question #2 for The Help: What do you think motivated Hilly? On one hand she’s so unpleasant to Aibileen and her own help, as well as to Skeeter once she […]

Contest Winner Ziggy, you’re it! Pick a Funk & Weber pattern, any pattern. Great answers. Kat, you cracked me up! Harriet, awesome poem! Although, I will argue strenuously about the claim that […]

I really liked the story “Security,” where Olive visits Christopher and his new wife, Ann, in New York. I like that the relationship between Chris and Olive is finally exposed. We get […]

In a recent comment, Shelly mentions “Olive’s affair.” I’m guessing it’s a reference to Olive’s feelings for Jim O’Casey, as opposed to her budding feelings for Jack Kennison at the end of […]

One of the canned questions about this book is as follows: In “A Different Road,” Strout writes about Olive and Henry: “No, they would never get over that night because they had […]

What do you think of Olive? Do you like her? Do you know anyone like her or see any part of yourself in her? Do you believe the transformation she seems to […]