Over the last few weeks, I've been reading A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah a powerful memoir of a boy soldier from Sierra Leone in the 1990's. Not that long ago, and insanely this kind of human trafficking is still happening. Children brainwashed into fighting wars that tore up their own families. Parts of [...]
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Finished Reading | Buy the change you want to see by Jane Mosbacher Morris
When I see books focused on ethical fashion and practices, I'm drawn to them, naturally of course, but I quickly become bored because I already know what they are telling me. Not the case with Buy the change you want see by Jane M. Morris, founder and CEO of To the Market. Jane tells readers [...]
Finished Reading: A Light so Lovely – the spiritual legacy of Madeleine L’Engle by Sarah Arthur
Confession time, as an avid reader I have not read The Time Quintet. Which includes L'Engle's most popular book, A Wrinkle in Time. I have read her nonfiction work Walking on Water, which I reviewed a while back. (I chuckle that the only book I've read by this famous fiction author is a piece of [...]
Summer Reads: Half the Sky by Nicholas Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn
Women hold up half the sky. -Chinese Proverb For the month of July I've been reading Half the Sky by Pulitzer Prize winning authors Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. Over the course the last several weeks my husband has asked a few times what I am reading. And I find that question hard to answer. I'm [...]
Just Finished Reading: Dead Wake
In case you haven't met me, I am a total history nerd. Contemplated a major in World History in college (vs Interior Design), but I'm not the teaching type...I thoroughly enjoyed Erik Larson's Devil in the White City last year and it reignited a love of history, architecture and for a good creepy murder mystery... In [...]