Sable Lit Reviews

More than just a catalyst to ticket sales, the predominant face associated with a film has a lot to do with the direction it will take and how it will be perceived. The same holds true for the making of The Secret Life of Bees, a New York Times bestseller by Sue Monk Kidd. While [...]

Books and their parts are often used as metaphors for life. For example, “never judge a book by its cover” or “judge a man not by the color of his skin by but the content of his character”, but Grammy-winning, multi-platinum recording artist, Alicia Keys, as she often does in her music, reveals a new [...]

When an idea for a novel begins to form it can be the seed of any experience imagined or rooted in reality that brings the full body of the work to fruition. For Sue Monk Kidd, New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Life of Bees, it was a combination of her own life [...]

Before going into the drugstore, Director Gina Prince-Bythewood tapped her young actor on the shoulder, “Jennifer, whatever you do, don’t hit anyone.” Confused, the Oscar-award winning actor of Dream Girls, Jennifer Hudson walked into the North Carolina drugstore unsure what would happen next or why she would need such a warning. The unique telling of [...]

On the surface, Sue Monk Kidd’s 2002 New York Times best seller The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of Lily Owens, a young teen-aged Caucasian girl learning the lessons of love and family in the Civil Rights era of South Carolina 1964. Adapted to the screen and ready for a mid-October 2008 release, [...]

In general, I don’t consider myself a movie-hyper. As a matter of fact, I tend to shy away from movies that get too much press out of the fear that I will be severely disappointed come opening night. It’s the reason why I have not seen Men In Black, Independence Day, any of the Lord [...]