Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge: Book #5

Happy Sunday friend and Happy Mother's Day to all of you wonderful momma's out there.  I hope today finds you full of love and appreciation from your loved ones.  We're planning to celebrate our mom's today while also respecting the Stay at Home order in place.

I am so excited to share the fifth book in the Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge: Driving Miss Daisy

Before I get into the review, I wanted to add a little disclaimer: Caroline and I started this journey back in September, so some of these books were read a ways back.  I finally felt like I had the time to take a break and write up my reviews of the books.  Eventually, I will catch up and my posts will be based on when I finish books, but for now I am sharing reviews from books read in 2019.  If you want to check out all of the books we've read so far, check out the Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge page on my blog or check me out on Goodreads.  

Reason I Picked this Book:

The simple answer is the book is short.  However, I had seen the play and wanted to remember the story because all I could remember is that I liked the story.

What's this Book About

The place is the Deep South, the time 1948, just prior to the civil rights movement. Having recently demolished another car, Daisy Wertham, a rich, sharp-tongued Jewish widow of seventy-two, is informed by her son, Boolie, that henceforth she must rely on the services of a chauffeur. The person he hires for the job is a thoughtful, unemployed black man, Hoke, whom Miss Daisy immediately regards with disdain and who, in turn, is not impressed with his employer's patronizing tone and, he believes, her latent prejudice. But, in a series of absorbing scenes spanning twenty-five years, the two, despite their mutual differences, grow ever closer to, and more dependent on, each other, until, eventually, they become almost a couple. Slowly and steadily the dignified, good-natured Hoke breaks down the stern defenses of the ornery old lady, as she teaches him to read and write and, in a gesture of good will and shared concern, invites him to join her at a banquet in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. As the play ends Hoke has a final visit with Miss Daisy, now ninety-seven and confined to a nursing home, and while it is evident that a vestige of her fierce independence and sense of position still remain, it is also movingly clear that they have both come to realize they have more in common than they ever believed possible-and that times and circumstances would ever allow them to publicly admit.

Recommended For:

This story is recommended for young adults and above.  

Something to Know:
This book is actually a play so it reads a bit differently than your average book.

Overall Rating: 5.0 out of 5.0 Stars
I was correct in my memory that I really liked the play when I saw it.  I loved the story and the relationship that the two main characters develop throughout the story.  And while she may be crotchety, you fall in love with Miss Daisy throughout the book.  I also appreciate the importance the story played in bringing light to some very important civil rights issues our country has faced and is still facing today.

Where Can I Find this Book?

Click here to purchase on Amazon.

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