364 books overall; 188 books read in the last year; 16 books read in the last month. That's an average of 0 books each month.
So obviously I can’t get enough of the polygamy stories this year. And wow. Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs by Elissa Wall with Lisa Pulitzer was amazing. Escape by Carolyn Jessop (my book review) and Shattered Dreams, My Life [...]
Apples and Oranges: My Brother and Me, Lost and Found by Marie Brenner is a memoir that I’m just not even sure how to review. Something tells me that I’m supposed to like this book. Perhaps, I thought that I would relate to Marie more than I did. I freely admit that my little brother [...]
The Road of Lost Innocence, The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine by Somaly Mam is yet another one that I think everybody should read! It’s as simple as that: read this book. It’s heartbreaking, powerful, disturbing, and straightforward. It’s also an amazing account of how one person can rise above their circumstances and lift [...]
Tears of the Desert, A Memoir of Survival in Darfur by Halima Bashir with Damien Lewis is utterly amazing and one of the best books I’ve read all year. This is one of those books that looks beyond the numbers of 2.5 million people displaced, 400,000 killed, and women and children raped in the ongoing [...]
Of Beetles & Angels, A Boy’s Remarkable Journey From a Refugee Camp to Harvard by Mawi Asgedom is the story of just how far hard work and dedication can take you in life. This is a non-fiction read geared for ages 9-12.
At the age of four, Asgedom’s family was forced from their war ravaged home [...]
