Books are some of my best friends

I'm reading The Help. It's one of those books that clings to me even when I'm not reading it. The characters hover in my consciousness and all I want to do is get back to the story. It's an oasis, an escape and it's hard to concentrate on anything, or anyone, else.

The book is set the American south of the late 50s - early 60s. It follows the lives of black domestic help and the white families they work for. The characters are compelling, but so are the details, the fashions, the furniture, the comfort food, and the lives of the society women.

Tonight I met with my book club. An while we're not high society types, it's really it good to be in the company of women. We read The Lizard's Cage, thus the Burmese food.