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Title: The Secret Life of a Short Story
Review: You might think Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life Of Bees was some boring technical manual about insects. You'd be two-thirds right; it IS about bees and it IS boring. It also includes a story about a little girl in the mid-sixties South running away from her abusive father and occasional references to the civil rights movement of the time. While Ms. Monk has fine command of the English language, the story is tissue-thin. The novel has the same pace, content, and entertainment value as the mint-julep fueled afternoon musings of a group of southern matriarchs. The book began its life as a short story. It should have ended its life there as well. If you don't have a lot of time to kill but feel you must read this, read the first 40 pages and the last 25. If you have time to kill, you could read the entire book. Or you could just visit your grandmother and listen to her drone on about the family for a few hours.
